On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 22:12 -0400, David Rysdam wrote: > On 05/11/2010 09:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > > How's the GPS? I heard from someone that the N810's GPS was lacking, > > though I'm still somewhat suspicious of his specific evaluation.... > > Google will back me up. Although Google will also claim various fixes, > particularly "A-GPS" which requires an internet connection and is > therefore useless in (my) normal use. > > Other solutions include an external GPS, which I don't really consider > to be a fix so much as a separate product. And in any case that would > still leave me using the N810's map software which is also pretty bad, > at least for what I do.
My N810 takes 15 minutes+ to lock on to the GPS satellites, and usually takes a lot longer than that (a couple of hours, which is the same thing as useless IMO). I don't bother to use it because of that. On the few occasions I've managed to actually get a connection, the accuracy has been reasonably good as far as I could tell, though the map detail in the areas I was checking was quite poor (to be fair, I have never seen a correct map for either my previous neighborhood in WRJ or for the street my lot of land is on). -- Stephen Ryan <step...@sryanfamily.info> _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
