Thread: Another N810 review.
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Jerome is offline Jerome
2008-02-17 , 20:34
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#9
Originally Posted by ag2 View Post
A few (~3) minutes after half a day _is_ the poor performance that others have reported. Modern GPS devices (including your Holux) get reliable cold fixes in about 30 seconds.

I also have an iQue 3600 and I find that it is significantly faster at cold fixes.
My Holux and my iQue 3600 do not get cold fixes in 30s. I find their performances similar to the one of the N810.


In the end, it depends on what we are testing. If you leave a GPS on for days, so that it has the almanach data of all satellites, and re-start it in a wide open space, 30s is probably what you will get. If you switch a GPS on for half an hour so that it gets 4-8 satellites, than switch it on again after half a day (different satellites will be up) in a city where only part of the sky is visible, a few minutes is what you will get.