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dupersuper Posts: 10

i don't understand why they did not have gps in the G900.
it could have been the perfect feature phone.
no one have more experience in touchscreen interfaces and they could beat the n-series from nokia which have gps built in.

the SE of old would come up with a few no compromise models (T68,T610,K800) and sell truck loads while the new SE seems to cut features from even their top of the line model to have a wide portfolio where no model does anything particularly well
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Posted: 2008-06-17 09:46:40
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Trev1982 Posts: > 500

yer they seem to be getting left behind now, although gps sucks i have the headphones with built in gps, open up google maps and restets my location to where ever it likes told me last night i was in magaluf lol
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Posted: 2008-06-17 09:50:00
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dogac Posts: 21

P1i is bundled with a WayFinder GPS device, at least in Turkey. It's unlocked so you can use it with any GPS software you want, not only WayFinder.

Happily using my P1i with Garmin.

GPS integrated phones suck anyway. You have to have the phone see the sky and cannot place it into the dashboard. You have to place it near the window onto the dashboard. With a bluetooth GPS device, you only place the small bluetooth device near the window and enjoy your phone anywhere you want. Of course this is only valid for car-usage..
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Posted: 2008-06-17 15:28:46
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anonymuser Posts: > 500

And of course you can still use a bluetooth GPS with a GPS-enabled phone if you really need to. Having GPS built in merely gives you more options, not less.

Saying phones with GPS built in "suck" is a bit like saying cameraphones suck because separate cameras are better, or phones with internet browsers suck because a separate laptop is better... at the end of the day, if you have something built in and you find it useful that 90% of the time you don't have a dedicated unit to hand, then that's a good thing, no?

GPS (like cameras, and bluetooth, and the internet etc) is already considered a standard feature by some, and will only become more so in future. SE missed a trick not getting their UIQ phones on board last year, let alone this year. And the OP is right, their current attitude where every phone they make has to fail or be a year behind the competition in one area or another - that sucks, and it doesn't look like a very successful strategy from here.
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Posted: 2008-06-18 19:55:52
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mayanks_098 Posts: 6

On 2008-06-17 15:28:46, dogac wrote:
P1i is bundled with a WayFinder GPS device, at least in Turkey. It's unlocked so you can use it with any GPS software you want, not only WayFinder.

Happily using my P1i with Garmin.

GPS integrated phones suck anyway. You have to have the phone see the sky and cannot place it into the dashboard. You have to place it near the window onto the dashboard. With a bluetooth GPS device, you only place the small bluetooth device near the window and enjoy your phone anywhere you want. Of course this is only valid for car-usage..

I thought they were providing hardware in the form of "GPS enabled earphone" and not a GPS device. I thought HGE-100(GPS enabled earphone) is the hardware and Wayfinder (navigator)was the software.
Can you post a pic of the device? Is it bluetooth? How is the performance?

Any idea about the cost? Please please let me know.
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Posted: 2008-06-21 12:58:19
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