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I have the Sprint TP2. In a totally unscientific study of only one point, my home, the cell triangulation was pretty far off, but it only claimed to be within a 1400 yard radius.
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Ok, so the triangulation isn't totally accurate, but it is still a first that you can triangulate using a windows mobile CDMA phone! I think that the GSM radio is still on even when using CDMA and it is using that to figure out where it is. Cool, huh?
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It uses tower based ping time to triangulate, while at the same time GPS's your phone. The result is fast locating of the handset. I have Sprint, and so far it works MUCH better than TP1 did. |
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About 400 feet usually indoors. Tried multiple locations, 400 was the average.
By the way, my GSM radio is turned off, I am on CDMA only. |
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As far as triangulation goes, it has placed me within 500 feet a couple of times, a few thousand meters sometimes, and once it told me that I was in Switzerland (I live in Georgia) ! It updated my google latitude location and a couple of my friends saw it... they were like wtf are you doing is Switzerland?? ![]() |
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Ok, so I was wondering if it was just an update to Google Maps Mobile, but I just tried the latest version on my wife's Touch Pro and the cell id triangulation doesn't work. It must be something new in the radio drivers of the TP2...
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I just got the latest google maps the other day. It's probably a stupid question but how did you know when it was using cell triangulation vs GPS. Also in the old version I was used too on my Titan it would say how many satellites it was locked too, I've yet to see that in this version? I have a terrible feeling I'm missing something simple.
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