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What a disappointment (At least for me it is)

ecastle

May 9, 2007, 9:53 AM
According to the video tour, it's the same old dialer application. Whatever happened to the phone dialer application that came on the Cingular Treo 680? It's so much more functional than the current/old dialer app.

If Sprint releases it with this dialer, it will be a great disappointment. Thoughts?

Also, still no built-in GPS? My Sanyo Katana even has full GPS capability.

According to the specs, it's also possible that the OBEX and/or FTP profiles have been removed from Bluetooth.

Sorry for my ranting but I have just not seen much innovation anymore from the Palm Treo.
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Rich Brome

May 9, 2007, 10:30 AM
ecastle said:
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According to the specs, it's also possible that the OBEX and/or FTP profiles have been removed from Bluetooth.
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It does have OPP, which is an OBEX profile.
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ecastle

May 9, 2007, 3:05 PM
My mistake.
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jrubzer

May 9, 2007, 3:06 PM
Palm is floundering with these micro updates.
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mobile_trojan

May 17, 2007, 2:03 AM
but OPP can be limited to vcards only, or just not work for files, etc.
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stearic

May 15, 2007, 1:59 AM
Sorry to break it to you man, your katana doesn't have "full gps capability". The gps chip in your katana is an A-GPS chip, just like the chip thats in the 755p. Way to pull info from out of nowhere.
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ecastle

May 15, 2007, 7:38 AM
Thank you for correcting me but you didn't need to be rude in the process. (Read your last sentence.)
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entropism

May 18, 2007, 11:22 PM
Actually, pretty sure the Katana has full GPS, considering it can use the telenav right from the phone. AGPS usually needs a breakout bluetooth GPS box to go along with it.
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ecastle

May 18, 2007, 11:28 PM
It's interesting you point this out because I do use Telenav and Garmin Mobile primarily for finding gas prices and both of them do grab my fairly exact location on the road quickly and show me moving on the highway.

If it really is just an A-GPS phone, how would it do that? Perhaps the PhoneScoop specs are not accurate?
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stearic

Jun 20, 2007, 5:15 AM
Taken directly from this websites description of what A-GPS is.

Most phones with "GPS" in fact use A-GPS technology. The "A" stands for assisted, and means that the phone relies on the network for help in determining location. Although the phone does receive GPS signals directly from the satellites, it can't determine actual location without help from the cell network.

So this is what they mean by a-gps. This is how you can use telenav and garmin mobile. You still have a gps chip, just a slightly handicapped one though. As for finding that info, it's going off info in comparing your poisition to the few towers that it's using to triangulate your position at.
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