I can confirm Marcus' findings, although often mine were even slower. The difference compared to the GTA01 is enormous. Unless TTFF improves a great deal I can see A-GPS being necessary for all users of the phone. I imagine a run once app that asks you to select what world city you are closest to and populates all the required A-GPS data from an included list of lat/long locations.
I've discussed this with Marcus before; one thing we wondered is whether or not anyone else has tried it? Joseph 2008/6/23 Yorick Matthys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Marcus Bauer said: >>My experience with the Freerunner is ~12 minutes TTFF (time to first >>fix) without use of agps and ~4-8 minutes TTFF with agps from >>agps.u-blox.com using the software from openmoko. >> >>The Neo1973 (GTA01) had a TTFF without agps assistance of ~2 min. > > 12 minutes without AGPS and 4-8min with AGPS?? > I hope there was a thunderstorm inside the basement where you tested this... > :) > > Seriously, these just don't seem realistic. > Compare them for example with some other devices from 2003: > http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/ttffcomparisons.php. > Or from ublox: http://www.u-blox.com/technology/assistnow/ (table at the > bottom of the page) > > Surely there must be something wrong with your > software/settings/hardware/environment... > (or maybe they still have a lot of work to do on the GPS :)) > > y > > _________________________________________________________________ > Download Messenger op je mobiel! > http://www.windowslivemobile.msn.com/nl/ > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community