GPS GPS GPS!

[eb3604]

sent off an email to technical support inquiring about gps. here's the response

Sprint together with Nextel® is dedicated to ensuring your satisfaction as our customer, and is dedicated to meeting your wireless needs. Thank you for contacting Sprint regarding this issue. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. The following information will be useful in resolving the issue you are experiencing, and may require a response from you:

Thank you for contacting Sprint regarding your concerns with accessing GPS services on the Mogul. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you. You are correct; the Mogul only comes with e911 GPS services. You'll need an external Bluetooth GPS Receiver to use any navigation or GPS services beyond emergency location. If you have any further questions or concerns please reply to this email or you may also contact us by calling *2 from your Sprint phone and once prompted by the system say “Technical Support” and you will be routed to a Technical Specialist for further assistance or by calling our direct Customer Service line at 888-211-4727. If calling from your Sprint phone please have another line available for use in case any additional troubleshooting steps need to be performed on your device.

We look forward to your continued business with Sprint together with Nextel and hope that this information is helpful! Thank you for choosing Sprint together with Nextel.

[darktiger]

I got my google map to work with my new i.Trek M5+ that I got for $49....This is awesome. Plus it comes some Mapping software. What is the best mapping software out there for the PS and the Mogul?

[eb3604]

Originally Posted by darktiger

I got my google map to work with my new i.Trek M5+ that I got for $49....This is awesome. Plus it comes some Mapping software. What is the best mapping software out there for the PS and the Mogul?

may i ask where you got your m5+ for 49?

[Hoof]

Originally Posted by eb3604

may i ask where you got your m5+ for 49?

cheapest i could find it was $59 on amazon

[Hoof]

Originally Posted by darktiger

I got my google map to work with my new i.Trek M5+ that I got for $49....This is awesome. Plus it comes some Mapping software. What is the best mapping software out there for the PS and the Mogul?

Hmmm very good reviews on newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16858702003

How easy was it to get it all working? This might just be the way to go

[dew.man]

The FCC application describes the Mogul as
"a CDMA850/CDMA1900 (1XEVDO / 1XRTT / IS-95A/B) Pocket PC Phone with wireless LAN, bluetooth, and GPS functions."

https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout =500&calledFromFrame=N&application_id=391628&fcc_i d='NM8TITA100'

[darktiger]

Originally Posted by eb3604

may i ask where you got your m5+ for 49?

I got it as a weekly special from this site

http://www.semsons.com/im5blgpsre32.html

I ordered it on Tuesday and got it on Thursday. For some reason it is not on their weekly special list anymore. I guess I got lucky.

It was pretty easy, I just put in the battery, enabled BT on my Mogul, set hardware address to Com0 in the WM6 builtin software and went into google maps. It worked immediatly. Pretty cool, going to sync this up with my BT laptop...

[Hoof]

Im somewhat inpatient, I guess I could pick up an i.Trek M5+ now and if they ever do fix the damn gps I could always sell it.

[Hoof]

Type in ##DEBUG# on your Mogul keypad, screen shows all the parameters possible with the Mogul in relation to the GPS. I still don't think Sprint would miss out on profit from GPS enabled apps such as Telenav just like with the Sprint Music Store. I think a software update is definitely in the works.

[TheRealJobe]

Originally Posted by Hoof

Type in ##DEBUG# on your Mogul keypad, screen shows all the parameters possible with the Mogul in relation to the GPS. I still don't think Sprint would miss out on profit from GPS enabled apps such as Telenav just like with the Sprint Music Store. I think a software update is definitely in the works.

Telenav uses cellular triangulation as a solution to the locating of the user. This is not the same way that true GPS uses.