Nokia N900

[Eric Stein]

My experience with the n810 (I never installed any agps package) GPS was 
universally awful except in a few lucky circumstances when I randomly 
got a GPS signal.

The n900 GPS is quite good and almost always acquires a signal quickly. 
Granted, it is not good when you are away from signals such as wifi or cell.

Eric

Tyson Sawyer wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
>   
>> I was outside, I was still WiFi'd in to the house so it was using AGPS.
>>  Result: Invalid.
>>     
>
> [...]
>
>   
>> Conclusion: The N810 GPS hardware and/or software definitively sucks.
>>     
>
> Though I agree that the N810 is not as good a GPS is most others, once
> the AGPS package had bee installed my experience was much better than
> what you are reporting.  You have not indicated if you had the AGPS
> package installed.  Last I knew, it was not a standard package.  If
> you didn't make a point to install it, its not there.  Without it, it
> is my impression that you always get a cold start.
>
> Response to some other comments:
>
> It is well documented that GPS's typically assume that they are
> restarted near where they where last used.  The documentation of every
> GPS I have ever bought says that if you turn it off and then transport
> it a long distance before turning it on again, it will take much
> longer to get a fix.  The N810 without the AGPS package seems not able
> to do even this simple trick.
>
> Though I've never seen any problem with slow movement,  I have seen
> (esp. on the N810) that highway speeds can hinder an initial fix.
>
> Cheers!
> Ty
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