GPS -- Time To Get Excited Yet?

Mustang46L · #1 (**permalink**) 10-22-2007, 10:30 PM

So HTC has already posted the user manual to the Touch, and in my spare time I skimmed it. The only thing that was very interesting was on pg. 167 under connections where it lists that there is an Internal GPS Antenna.

I went back to check, and the Mogul does not list this under hardware? So, might we finally be sporting a PPC with GPS from Sprint?

Victor_A · #2 (**permalink**) 10-22-2007, 11:11 PM

Here is the link incase anyone wants to see
http://www.america.htc.com/support/t...ser_Manual.pdf

StarmanDX · #3 (**permalink**) 10-22-2007, 11:24 PM

Sprint advertised the Mogul as being "GPS Enabled" and we have no GPS. I wouldn't hold your breath for GPS on the Touch.

monster28 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-23-2007, 12:48 AM

yeap yeap i know

**Pibe38** · #5 (**permalink**) 10-23-2007, 01:22 AM

Thank for posting that here... however, there's already a thread for Touchpal on the software forum

CruiSin · #6 (**permalink**) 10-23-2007, 10:07 AM

It also has a note in the description of the LED's on page 4 that seems to say that GPS will be built in:

Right LED: Shows a flashing blue light when the Bluetooth system is powered up and ready to transmit Bluetooth radio signal, or an amber light for GPS status.

Now to get my hands on it. I don't think the 4th will come soon enough.

**codyppc** · #7 (**permalink**) 10-23-2007, 05:05 PM

on page 26 it talks aboutthe external gps. this says nothing about internal gps. the led is just there if the external gps is connected to the ppc.

on page 47 it talks about the Location Setting. this is where it talks about the device’s built-in GPS chip. this is just your normal 911 crap.

page 173 agian talks about the internal gps chip, but if affraid it is only the 911 crap agian.

boy would i love to be wrong. if it has gps i will be getting it for sure.

cody

saqer · #8 (**permalink**) 10-23-2007, 05:27 PM

the touch or vogue as it was codenamed initially had a NMEA internal GPS chip and accompanying antenna, and I remember seeing this specifically on pdadb.net a while back. After Sprint "re-branded" the phone, we find that this internal chip no longer exists we also find that wi-fi is no longer available.

Thank you Sprint for crippling our product.

watson540 · #9 (**permalink**) 10-23-2007, 05:53 PM

I have A titan myself. just wanted to point out to all the people out there wishing day and night for gps..external one only cost like fourty bucks for a bluetooth one..heh..might just be easier to get one of those..I know I will

gxnext · #10 (**permalink**) 10-26-2007, 02:40 AM

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Originally Posted by watson540

I have A titan myself. just wanted to point out to all the people out there wishing day and night for gps..external one only cost like fourty bucks for a bluetooth one..heh..might just be easier to get one of those..I know I will

maybe, but I think all this "gps enabled" is a little misleading. if they are talking about e911 it should just say "e911 capable" and nothing about gps so it won't confuse people. I hope sprint never cripples hardware ever, thats why I left verizon because of what happened with bluetooth and the motorola v710, but from that experience I'v learned 5 times out of 10 anything that says "capable" is just a crippled version. I wounder if they're really trying to mislead people with the gps tho... ? I know verizon got sue'd over the v710, and I'm not saying that needs to happen here but ... the confusion must stop lol. stop advertising misleading features.... thats not to much to ask is it? lol, and if the gps is locked for some reason and they plan on unlocking it at some point then... by all means advertise that... "full GPS enabled in future update" or something