Another GPS Thread

[:zainy:]

Hey everyone,

I've been frequenting this forum since picking up my mogul and really appreciate a lot of the information I get here. Today I learned something and in return would like to return my tidbit of knowledge.

I work for Sprint and was asked to attend a training seminar today on the HTC Mogul. During the presentation by the person from HTC, a slide popped up showing Telenav enabled which raised many eyebrows. Both the HTC Rep and several others who work in the data division of Sprint broke it down. The Mogul will in fact have GPS and will not require an external puck to utilize the GPS.

The EVDO Rev A chipset as they explained has a subset of chips which are GPS chips, some of our aircards do also apparently. Obviously the tech side of this I cannot explain beyond what they said. Everyone ensured us, all sprint employees, that when the EVDO Rev A update is released late september/early october, the mogul will be able to utilize telenav services.

Now many of you may be naysayers, however I have no reason to troll this forum and pop in for the sake of wasting my time and yours. My only regret about switching from an Samsung M500 to the Mogul has been that I lost the GPS feature. Today I, like every other sales rep in the seminar, had my chin hit the ground at how this is going to put the mogul over the top. So take it for what it's worth, but when they push the EVDO Rev A update, you will all be happy users of the Mogul.

[ViPaDawG]

so basically you are saying that the aGPS will finally be enabled.

i guess that's good....right?

[:zainy:]

Originally Posted by ViPaDawG

so basically you are saying that the aGPS will finally be enabled.

i guess that's good....right?

i don't know the specifics on how it works(not a hardware junkie). i know they said we will be able to use telenav to get turn by turn directions and that it is not just a gps for the e911 initiative.

[blazin-asian]

GPS, interesting. i would love to see these slides.

[stearic]

Those slides indeed would be interesting to see.

[TrainSafe]

Sounds like we'll still be locked into Sprint's Telenav package, though. Right?

[Big D5]

Some good news is that Spring is still going to support this device, I was worried that we would be forgotten. With the E java manager there is a possibility that all power vision applications could be made available to this device. There goes another $5/month, glad I bought a bluetooth GPS.

[KoukiFC3S]

Good news. Ill be purchasing the navigation package when its released.

[ViPaDawG]

Originally Posted by :zainy:

i don't know the specifics on how it works(not a hardware junkie). i know they said we will be able to use telenav to get turn by turn directions and that it is not just a gps for the e911 initiative.

telenav also uses agps, b/c all of the phones that run it now do NOT have full-fledged GPS receivers.

the only good thing I see is that there MIGHT be a possibility of hacking it, so it can take advantage of the aGPS and be used in apps like MGMaps, which have a specific "sprint" version which makes the agps act like a full fledged gps and work fairly decently. I used to have that app on my a900, and it worked great. i'm hoping I'll be able to use it again once the aGPS is enabled on the mogul.

[xj.archaeologist]

If it's telenav locked, this is OK, but not great. I, for one, would rather purchase another program (iNav, TomTom, etc) and use it rather than use telenav, but GPS would still be nice...