Gps

[brandogg]

It says it has an AGPS receiver though, which is actually better than GPS. It uses cell phone triangulation to figure out your general location, then the GPS will get a true lock-on and show your actual location. The Samsung Omnia (my phone) does this too, it has true GPS, but uses AGPS first.

[banden]

Originally Posted by brandogg

It says it has an AGPS receiver though, which is actually better than GPS. It uses cell phone triangulation to figure out your general location, then the GPS will get a true lock-on and show your actual location. The Samsung Omnia (my phone) does this too, it has true GPS, but uses AGPS first.

I see they've modified their page. Technically there's no such thing as an 'AGPS Receiver'. AGPS is software. But investigating the support site, the device does have an sGPS Receiver.

Nexus One has: "Built-in seventh-generation gpsOne® engine with Standalone-GPS and Assisted-GPS modes"

Many phones that sport AGPS don't have the ability to use GPS when outside of tower range, ones that have AGPS without an sGPS receiver are only accurate to a 500 square meter range as well.

If you look at the specs of the Droid it specifically says both: aGPS (assisted), sGPS (simultaneous)

[brandogg]

It's the receiver part I was more referring too, but that should clear it up even more.