I'm wanting to upgrade my 9810 + WiFi Liberate (which I totally hate) to either a single Z10 or Z30 device. I know that either of these two devices will do wifi hotspot. But I seriously need "GPS over WiFi" protocol when in hotspot mode. Does BB10 make the Z10's (or Z30's) GPS data available to wifi connected devices? My present WiFi Liberate (which I totally hate) does this, and I can't presently afford to lose this functionality. AT&T's WiFi Liberate (which I totally hate) works well when it's working, but it has so many operational glitches (random shutdowns, hangs, overheating, etc.) that it is basically useless.
There is no GPS over wi-fi. GPS is GPS. It is its own system of networked satellites that the phone "sees" and locates itself in a mapping app, or just returns its longitude and latitude.
And, do you mean AT&T's MiFi Mobile hotspot Liberate? I think any of the BB10 phones can take the MiFi's place, assuming you have the right data plan that allows it.
Yes, the AT&T "MiFi" Liberate has it's own internal GPS receiver, and iPad's location services can easily see this GPS data. It's my understanding that "GPS over WiFi" (or actually GPS over IP) is a standard NMEA protocol. I was just wondering if the Z10/Z30 provided this same functionality.
Is it basically a way for the device to transmit the GPS data it gets to another device via a wi-fi connection? If so, I don't know if any BB10 has that capability.
Sounds like something that got hacked together to make up for the especially crappy GPS hardware Apple sees fit to put in iPads. NMEA over a network socket would be easy to do on BB10. I was going to write a app to send it via BlueTooth, a much better solution, but apparently iPads won't connect to BlackBerrys via BlueTooth.