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Does anyone know if there are any advanced specs on the GPS for this device. I tried digging through the Support pages over at RIM and couldn't find anything meaningful.
I'm looking for information on the signal quality etc. I just want to see how well this stacks up against other GPS receivers.
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I don't know all the specs, but I know it uses aGPS servers which help improve the accuracy a lot. It helps most when you're in an area where sats are difficult to find. I haven't tested the Storm against any GPS device, but on my HTC Touch it worked much faster than a Garmin unit, but that was HTC.
Signal Loc BB will give you a bunch of info on the gps.
Signal-Location Utilities for BlackBerry
Features:
* Displays network information such as signal level, services supported,
cell site identification, channel and, if supported by your device and
network, the latitude and longitude of the current cell site, if available.
Service Indicators:
V Voice
D Data
R Roaming
MDS MDS Connectivity through BES
WAP WAP Connectivity through carrier WAP
1XEV
EVDO
GPRS
EDGE
UMTS
SOS
DOP Data Service Opetational
DSUSP Data Service Suspended
Cell Site Id:
CDMA: SystemID-NetworkID-BaseStationID
GSM: RoutingAreaCode-LocationAreaCode-CellID-BaseStationId
Network Details screen provides all available information for the network
and cell site.
* Displays GPS information such as latitude, longitude, altitude, course and
speed. If cell site location is also available, the course and distance
from your current location to the cell site is also displayed.
* Both internal and BlueTooth GPS units are supported. Basically, if Google
Maps and BlackBerry Maps can use a device, so can SignalLoc.
* Can display locations in BlackBerry Maps or Google Maps.
* Can save cell site and location info as they change. Each change of cell
site can be automatically saved and the user can configure how often to
take a current location snapshot nased on distance travelled.
* Exports cell site and location info in KML or CSV format that can be easily
imported to Google Earth and other mapping programs, spreadsheets, etc.
The data can be exported to the clipboard or a media card.
* Displays device information such as battery strength, voltage, temperature,
flash and ram statistics.
* User selectable Imperial or Metric units.
The GPS module is embedded in the Storm's Qualcomm MSM7600 CPU.
Details on that particular module are:
Technical Specifications
Supports multiple modes of GPS, inclusive of standalone, MS-Based, MS-Assisted, Hybrid, and gpsOneXTRA� Assistance
Enables enhanced standalone GPS through gpsOneXTRA Assistance
Supports � 160 dBm tracking sensitivity
Standalone TTFF Hot, Warm Cold (1s/29s/35s) respectively
Compatible with Qualcomm's QPoint Location Based Server as well as 3GPP and GERAN compliant location servers supporting UMTS control plane and GSM control plane and OMA SUPL 1.0
I found this by following these links for gpsOne:
Qualcomm MSM7600 Specs | CPUlist | PDAdb.net - Comprehensive Database of PDA, PDA Phone, Smartphone, PNA & Handheld Computers Specifications
gpsOne�, Qualcomm gpsOne�, Location Based Service - QCTConnect.com
But is it as good as the much-lauded SurfStarIII GPSr chipset?
That's a qualitative question that cannot be answered by a spec sheet.
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