Are there any details on what kind of GPS hardware will be on the s10? I am especially looking for the dual frequency GPS.
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Does anybody know if there is any tweaking software for the Kaiser internal GPS like there is for the many Sirf GPS receivers?
So I mean software where you can set things like the static/dynamic mode, elevation angle cutoff etc.
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is it possible for phone that uses MSM7201a to remove gps only?
in korea, they recently launched lg incite phone with MSM7201a, but gps is not included. but i thought it wasn't possible for you to remove gps ability from MSM7201a. anyone has the answer?
Yes, it is possible. Producer can not add pinouts for gps, can not add gps antenta to phone, etc. And also GPS module can be blocked itself.
thats really the main difference between the HTC hermes and the trinity. in the trinity the gps antenna is connected
so it that mean that gps chip is there but its just not connected? or is that mean they just took the gps module? cause what i've heard was that gps chip s can not be removed in MSM7201a
Yes, that is mean GPS is there but you can't make use of it. Few pda's have MSM7200 processor without GPS capabilities - HTC Touch Dual, LG KS20 etc.
http://www.xperiadepot.com/freedom-keychain-gps-2000/10A95A2869.htm
There are no good description for this product. Does anyone know what they do?
I think this is an ordinary gps modul and description made by someone who does not know there is already a gps receiver built-in in X1.
maybe you use it to help find your keys?
Feezer said:
maybe you use it to help find your keys?
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Right but the description confuses me and it does sound exactly like what jabe said. But I would so buy this if it was key finder.
It just a bluetooth GPS module that fits on a key chain. You don't need it as the X1 already has a built in GPS chip. If you had a smartphone without a GPS chip, then there's be some benefit to it.
Or if you wanted to use GPS stuff on a laptop or something with BT etc.
Suppose your X1 is positioned in your car that way that the GPS reception is bad but you cannot relocate it. You can set it up to receive GPS signals from this external module. The module itself can be put anywhere like near a window or on the car's roof or so.
WTF? Did you even read? "The Freedom Keychain GPS 2000 is the world’s lightest and most compact pocket GPS receiver."
It's an external GPS receiver.
gps is receiving only!
you pick up a signal from several satellites and the device calc your position
this keythingy have gps and bluetooth
bluetooth have a range of 10m so even if it could transmit
it's cords to your phone then you would have to be pretty close to the lost keys
an external gps, my brother has one but of a different brand. his loads really quick and there's no need to wait on finding satellites. i'm not sure how this performs though, but for a keychain it seems promising for other phones without a built-in gps
I actually have one of those. Well, mine is a white Vodafone branded one, but it's the same chip, hardware, box, everything. It's actually still vaguely useful - it's DGPS capable (WAAS/EGNOS), which the X1's GPS chip is not (augmented accuracy within certain systems, WAAS for North America/Canada and out to sea within several hundred miles, EGNOS for Europe etc), and it has apparently far better reception - my X1i couldn't pick up a GPS signal to save its life inside a BA Boeing 777 flight. The bluetooth'd external reciever picked up and held a strong signal for the entire 3500 mile flight at 40k ft. And inside a plane fuselage, that's got to be borderline faraday cage.
Most references I see to the chip in the Galaxy S for handling the Bluetooth, WiFi, and FM are listed as a broadcom. I was unable to locate a chipset on broadcoms site that lists support for Bluetooth 3.0, but I did notice nearly all of the broacom chips that support FM radio support it as RX and TX. Is the chip in the Galaxy S a broadcom, and if so has anyone found a way to enable the TX portion? It was more a curiosity question as I'm sure the TX power is low as is the sound quality, but hey if it does offer it, why not exploit it?
Maybe this has already been answered for the Samsungs and I just missed it in my searches. The searches only returned other brand/model phones.
The other question I was wondering is if the FM range is hard coded in the chip, or if it's a soft radio where the RX frequencies could be shifted to say the Weather Band in the US, or some other area near the normal FM radio range? Again, this is all more out of curiosity than anything.
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I found this one that supports BT 3.0 and still lists FM RX/TX
BCM20751 - Bluetooth® + GPS + FM Combination ('Combo') Chip Solution
Well, this is like the only thing I'm missing from my old Nokia N97.. So I would like it.
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Well, this is like the only thing I'm missing from my old Nokia N97.. So I would like it.
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Well, after looking at the Samsung source for the I9000, it appears they use the SI4709 chip for FM reception, and that chip doesn't support FM TX, just RX.
Hello my friends!
I have searched a lot, but it seems that getting the FM receiver to work on our Snapdragon S4 devices will not happen, at least in the near future.
Anyone has any different (and encouraging) info here?
Does Microsoft give out resources that could make this possible by a dev, or they pretend it does not exist?
Thanx in advance.
Konstantinos
There are no APIs for it. So currently Developers can't use the feature in Apps. At the moment we don't even know if all the hardware required is even inside the phones. The Snapdragon SoC does support it but that is not all the hardware that is necessary.
Let's pretend it doesn't exist. However over at the TechMeShow I was making an FM Transmitter and now uses my Bluetooth module for "FM Radio" streaming. It's hardware, not just Software.