Thread: A suggestion that could speed up GPS lock
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ioioio is offline ioioio
2009-09-17 , 01:30
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Originally Posted by shadowjk View Post
It's a TI module... TI530 maybe, my memory isn't working tonight. The datasheet can be summarized into "It's a GPS chip. You can put it in portable devices and stuff."
Little Google searching on ti530 found that the n810 has the Texas Instruments Navilink 4.0 TI GPS5300 chipset. It's OEM only, so no datasheet for me. Can't find any info, lock times, etc for the chip. Just the following;

http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtb...emplateId=6123

And as someone else said, supposedly A-GPS does this;

http://betalabs.nokia.com/blog/2008/...beta-for-n810/

Reading further

http://www.wmexperts.com/articles/gp..._tutorial.html

on a cellphone, the assistance for the GPS would come from the base station.