Garmin StreetPilot Navigation Now Available for iPhone
I hope Google puts out Navigation for iPhone soon.
Actually AT&T/Navigon software only uses AGPS/cell towers on the majority of feature phones and many ATT smart phones.
Anyhow, Google nav will use satellites when available, GPS accuracy is a hardware/firmware attribute, not software.
As such if Google nav were available for the iphone as it is on Android phones then a $40 app would not get much play unless you needed Garmin API's fo...
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Anyhow, Google nav will use satellites when available, GPS accuracy is a hardware/firmware attribute, not software.
Your somewhat correct with how AGSP works on AT&T. The GPS data for AT&T (Telenav) data is from the satellites, & the mapping data is being sent via the data network from the carriers. I was able to meet with Dr Bob Rennard, one of Telenav’s founders, & he explained to our group on how this works.
Also, The Verizon Blackberrys (On the Market Now) have GPS chips. Yet VZ Nav is all from Cell site GPS. So software is a big factor for the type of GPS services available.
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