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Why Motorola has the highest GPS Priority?

vesther

Dec 9, 2005, 10:29 PM
I wonder why Motorola always has the highest priority amongst GSM phones to have turn by turn direction service. Is it me, or is it that Motorola are purveyors of GSM Turn-By-Turn service?

It's about time Verizon has a Turn-By-Turn service, but I was just hoping that Verizon could've had plenty phones that had this service initially. Furthermore, Verizon phones need to have Java for Turn-By-Turn to work well.
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vesther

Dec 9, 2005, 10:30 PM
Oh, sorry. My bad. I meant "GPS" not "GSM". Naughty me.
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bulldude

Dec 10, 2005, 1:25 AM
Moto just seems to be better suited to aGPS, their stuff works better.
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vesther

Dec 10, 2005, 9:09 AM
Thought so. I thought that there are other phone and equipment companies that are as good on GPS as Motorola is. I guess Motorola is always the first phone maker to put their hat in the ring. That is why all of Sprint's "Falcon iDEN" phones are GPS-ready.

I just wished that Verizon could've demanded all of their phones and/or equipment to be GPS ready. I'm not sure about the case of Palm, since I have no idea whether or not the Treo is GPS-Ready.

I guess Verizon should state whether or not a phone is GPS-ready, given that Verizon now has Turn-by-Turn service. Turn-By-Turn requires a Verizon-locked, GPS-ready phone.

Is all of Verizon's phones GPS-ready?
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bulldude

Dec 10, 2005, 10:16 AM
Technically yes, for E911. But I can say that some phones are better than others at interpreting GPS signal. I don't know the specifics, but I would assume it's just like some phones are better at voice reception. E911 has the standard of being acurate to 50m 67% of the time and 100m 95% of the time. That level of accuracy sounds like it could cause issues when I'm looking for Starbucks.
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some_guy

Dec 13, 2005, 9:05 AM
come now... you can't go 100m without finding atleast one starbucks
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