Another GPS Thread - Page 2

aughsum · #11 (**permalink**) 08-15-2007, 09:50 PM

dont know if this is good news or not.. want GPS, not aGPS. ill wait til the update and if its not standalone i guess ill get a bt receiver.

Mustang46L · #12 (**permalink**) 08-15-2007, 10:33 PM

It'll be aGPS. It has to be. Most people want aGPS so that they don't have to worry about clear views of the sky, can use their GPS in buildings, ect.

If you want a true GPS you'll have to get an external module.

:zainy: · #13 (**permalink**) 08-15-2007, 11:14 PM

I wish I had taken a picture of the slide but I like all the other sales rep in the room were busy swiveling our heads around the room to the various persons commenting on it, it completely slipped my mind until afterwards.

besides that, it would not be easy to steal a shot of a power point presentation from 4 rows back with a mogul. i'm fairly confident one of the many persons involved in the presentation would have taken notice. last thing I need is to be fired. i doubt this is internal information as they made no effort to convey that but i like going to bed at night knowing i have a roof over my head.

some other questions raised were whether it will allow tracking applications. the htc rep said she was unable to answer that specifically because she did not know what the application entailed. but she said if it's something telenav has offered in the past she sees no reason as to why not since they code should be easy to write for the mogul. again she did not dive into details as to why because it would be over the head of many in the room.

aughsum · #14 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 12:25 AM

i doubt youll get fired for letting us know the mogul can match up, gps-wise, to pretty much every FAR cellphone thats ever been sold..

Kasracer · #15 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 12:26 AM

Why is everyone up in arms about aGPS again? The original poster is correct that GPS will be coming to the Mogul in Q4 2007.

While I've had several Sprint employees tell me such, that does not matter. There is a thread, I believe, over at that xda-developers forum and they have determined that the chipset in the Mogul not only supports standalone GPS but something about 4 different modes of GPS.

So don't worry about the GPS functionality not being any good or only aGPS as it's not.

BTW, Another clear indication is that the Verizon version of the Mogul has the exact same hardware... but they will be offering full GPS support with the device.

aughsum · #16 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Kasracer

Why is everyone up in arms about aGPS again? The original poster is correct that GPS will be coming to the Mogul in Q4 2007.

While I've had several Sprint employees tell me such, that does not matter. There is a thread, I believe, over at that xda-developers forum and they have determined that the chipset in the Mogul not only supports standalone GPS but something about 4 different modes of GPS.

So don't worry about the GPS functionality not being any good or only aGPS as it's not.

BTW, Another clear indication is that the Verizon version of the Mogul has the exact same hardware... but they will be offering full GPS support with the device.

Yeah thats what I thought.. then someone comes on here and says they heard straight from the horses mouth that its only aGPS... to be perfectly honest, i dont think sprint knows what the fuck it has.

aughsum · #17 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 12:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kasracer

Why is everyone up in arms about aGPS again? The original poster is correct that GPS will be coming to the Mogul in Q4 2007.

While I've had several Sprint employees tell me such, that does not matter. There is a thread, I believe, over at that xda-developers forum and they have determined that the chipset in the Mogul not only supports standalone GPS but something about 4 different modes of GPS.

So don't worry about the GPS functionality not being any good or only aGPS as it's not.

BTW, Another clear indication is that the Verizon version of the Mogul has the exact same hardware... but they will be offering full GPS support with the device.

Yeah thats what I thought.. then someone comes on here and says they heard straight from the horses mouth that its only aGPS... to be perfectly honest, i dont think sprint knows what the fuck it has.

**Big D5** · #18 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by aughsum

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kasracer

Why is everyone up in arms about aGPS again? The original poster is correct that GPS will be coming to the Mogul in Q4 2007.

While I've had several Sprint employees tell me such, that does not matter. There is a thread, I believe, over at that xda-developers forum and they have determined that the chipset in the Mogul not only supports standalone GPS but something about 4 different modes of GPS.

So don't worry about the GPS functionality not being any good or only aGPS as it's not.

BTW, Another clear indication is that the Verizon version of the Mogul has the exact same hardware... but they will be offering full GPS support with the device.

Yeah thats what I thought.. then someone comes on here and says they heard straight from the horses mouth that its only aGPS... to be perfectly honest, i dont think sprint knows what the f*** it has.

Sprint wants to charge you for GPS and will not enable anything they cant charge for, welcome to Sprint

aughsum · #19 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 08:10 AM

well if the vzw mogul has full?gps like everyone is saying it will I guess sprint won't have much say in the matter of whether or not they'll be able to charge us for gps.. you'd think they'd realize that and just enable the damn thing.. words cannot describe how much I don't want to have an external gps adapter floating around.. if theres one thing I cand stand its periphials that serve one purpose.

Mustang46L · #20 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 10:50 AM

Sprint will enable aGPS through Telenav and most users will be happy because even if they gave us full GPS support 90% of the users that aren't on this site wouldn't know how to use it anyway.

I personally, as I said before, would rather have aGPS but wouldn't mind having full GPS support as well. I think that full GPS support would just be very nice for us to see in the developer community.