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Re: First iPhone Reviews Don’t Reveal the Crucial Thing: GPS Reception Quality

Michaell — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:46:57 -0000

I own a Nokia 95 and an iPhone 3G. In direct comparison the Nokia beats the iPhone 3G by far in quality of GPS signal receiptions.
The Nokia has the quality of a Tom Tom when navigating with Nokia Maps from Newark Airport to downtown Manhattan or travelling from Austria to Switzerland. Nokia Maps is a fully functioning app which gives you vocal maneuver direction, has a night and days view and saves you a lot money with the ability to download maps in the permanent store. It can store more than usa, austria an switzerland together with multi media stuff.
The iPhones 3G GPS signal receiption in comparison seems to be weak. It seems that not only builidings and trees but every cloud on the sky is affecting the receiption quality.
Google Maps is a routing tool but it is not usable as a navigation tool. It gives no vocal direction, you neither have view modes (night, day, direction symbols etc). And it needs a permanent cellular uplink for the ongoing actualisation of the map. If you don't have a cheap data rate it will cost you a fortune!
Recently Navigon has release it's MobileNavigator Europe for iPhone 3G. It has comparable functionality like a TomTom - but at almost the same price. BUT... in direct comparison with the TomTom it's all rubbish. The GPS permanently loses its receiption while the TomTom does'nt.
This seems to be the same with the new 3Gs, which is faster in acquiring position and has also a magnetic compass sensor in addition.
Facit: Better use a TomTom or a Nokia N95 for Navigation.

Re: First iPhone Reviews Don’t Reveal the Crucial Thing: GPS Reception Quality

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Re: First iPhone Reviews Don’t Reveal the Crucial Thing: GPS Reception Quality

Refer4Freebies — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:02:28 -0000

gps sucks on the iphone, its ok when you on foot, but get it in the car and try and use it, i haven't found a phone yet that works with proper sat nav

Re: First iPhone Reviews Don’t Reveal the Crucial Thing: GPS Reception Quality

John Ward — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:32:27 -0000

I use the GPS on my N95 8GB regulary for driving directions. I've never had any issues with it.

Re: First iPhone Reviews Don’t Reveal the Crucial Thing: GPS Reception Quality

Keith — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:38:16 -0000

Poque on CNBC said the GPS signal was not great

Re: First iPhone Reviews Don’t Reveal the Crucial Thing: GPS Reception Quality

gijs — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:04:39 -0000

I own a N95 and get spotless and very quick positioning. aGPS kicks in within 3 secs (even inside buildings) and GPS 5 secs afterwards, even when driving a car or cloudy days.

Re: First iPhone Reviews Don’t Reveal the Crucial Thing: GPS Reception Quality

Sam — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:58:46 -0000

The GPS on my Blackberry Curve + Yahoo! Go is good enough to do turn by turn so I can't imagine that the iPhone's will be any worse.

Re: First iPhone Reviews Don’t Reveal the Crucial Thing: GPS Reception Quality

Michael — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:38:32 -0000

I wonder if not talking about GPS was a stipulation of the NDA basically saying that if you mention GPS you can't talk about it until after the iPhone 3G is released to the public.

But, since GPS is really the only difference I'm going to see if I actually buy the iPhone 3G (currently have a first gen iPhone) knowing how well the GPS works would really be nice.

Re: First iPhone Reviews Don’t Reveal the Crucial Thing: GPS Reception Quality

maique — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:21:51 -0000

i'd just like to say that i have tomtom installed on a n95 8gb and, despite taking a long time to get a sat lock, it works pretty nicely, giving me instructions on the loudspeaker.

usually i use it lying down on the seat next to the driver's and, once it gets that lock, it's quite smooth and hardly ever looses it, even on a town like mine (lisbon, portugal) which has a lot, a LOT, of narrow streets.

it's not as good as my standalone unit, but that one has a sirf chip, so it's obviously better in those situations..