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March 27th, 2009 05:58 AM #371Originally Posted by meledson
You can thank Nokia for deciding to use TI (Texas Instruments) chipsets. They started using it on their first GPS phone (N95), and correct me if I'm wrong, they're still using it on the current models.
Of course some people aren't bothered with it ... but having receivers with TTFF's of less than a minute it was a pain for me to wait for my N95, so I use the "better" ones when driving.
Some device manufacturers have a feature for Assisted-GPS where the device can get GPS data from the network and hasten the TTFF. It all depends on the model if it has one, so check the specs na lang. It may even be called by another name, but Assisted-GPS it still is.
One of my receivers has the SiRF III chipset (w/o aGPS) and gets a fix in 20 seconds. It's almost ready after I put in my destination. And in the UK, that can be as short as the house number and 7-char postal code - no need to type the street name nor city (the postal code already has that info) ... and I bought that thing a year before the N95 came out of the shops here.
Originally Posted by Snorkle
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March 27th, 2009 08:59 AM #372
N95 is really known to be slow to lock-on in it's GPS mode. The newer units equipped with GPS are faster like the 6110 Navigator etc.
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March 27th, 2009 03:51 PM #374
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March 27th, 2009 04:50 PM #375the nuvi 250w that i used takes just about the same time (30 seconds - 3 mins) to lock in. and yes, initial lock in takes a long time. most of the time satellite lock-in is almost instant.
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March 27th, 2009 05:54 PM #376
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March 27th, 2009 06:03 PM #377
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March 28th, 2009 04:34 AM #378
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March 29th, 2009 05:46 PM #379Useful ba talaga ang GPS sa Metro Manila? Sa sobrang cramp dito with small roads branching everywhere and streets with multiple names, does it help ba?
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March 29th, 2009 06:55 PM #380
i used gps while going to sm mall of asia. what i noticed, how does the gps calculate the route to take? does it depends sa settings yan?
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