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With se leading the way in standardizing bluetooth in thier phones way before the rest, i'm surprised that its taking so long for them to release a gps phone.
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Posted: 2007-12-07 09:34:23
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I think power consumption and cost would have something to do with it. SE is careful about including features in a device that would compromise battery life or increase cost.

I see it becoming standard eventually.


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Posted: 2007-12-07 09:39:49
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No shying away from it, gps phones particularly the high end phones is the way to go for SE if they must compete with the rest. I am very sure we shall see more, come 2008.
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Posted: 2007-12-07 09:51:29
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GPS on SE phones? yes!
But becoming a standard in a SE phone? I don't think so.
Just like chuksy said, it will only available on High-end phones.
But who need GPS if you can use
Google virtual GPS


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Posted: 2007-12-07 10:13:37
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I DONT WANT SOME POWER EATING GPS IN MY CELL PHONE...why ???? it use way to much power,(it drain the battery much faster...you need a BIG battery to get good talktime)..

its crappy against a real gps..(sure, it seems that N82 a-gps is quite fast, but you cant still use it inside big buildings, and it have bad battery time)

remember,one of major features have allways been good battery time..

if i want a gps, i buy a real one....works ten times better.

ps..you have gps-puck if you need gps to example k850...they work good i think.

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[ This Message was edited by: plankgatan on 2007-12-07 09:43 ]
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Posted: 2007-12-07 10:34:29
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I'm not agree with you here...

If you just activate the gps when u need it, whats the problem with the battery ???

How many times do u need to use a gps inside buildings ??

"if i want a gps, i buy a real one....works ten times better. "
Thats just to say: -If I want a digital camera, I buy a SLR ...works ten times better...

Of course, if u buy one unit for every purpose you will end up with the top of tle line gadgets, the mobile do not do a perfect job at anything when speaking of diferent features, it is just OK at many things !

A gps in the phone is a great feature !!!

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[ This Message was edited by: Fredricx on 2007-12-07 10:03 ]
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Posted: 2007-12-07 11:00:28
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GPS chips will become smaller, more efficient and cheaper to produce over time, just as more mobile devices are appearing with larger screens.

I can only see them becoming more commonplace.
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Posted: 2007-12-07 11:10:41
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Hi!!

This here shows a very small GPS chip.



And here shows some other uses for the GPS enabled phone !

Ofiaich


[ This Message was edited by: ofiaich on 2007-12-07 11:14 ]
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Posted: 2007-12-07 12:14:15
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Soon i hope. after getting lost in cardiff at 3am after the joe calzaghe fight i can see the need to have something like the N82 style gps on my phone.
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Posted: 2007-12-07 12:14:44
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Hi SCORPIONKING1982!

There is software for the TyTn II that does this kind of thing. There is a thread over at XDA-Developers and the homepage is here

Looks good!

Ofiaich



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Posted: 2007-12-07 12:22:31
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