Thread: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
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2010-09-19 , 19:27
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Originally Posted by zimon View Post
Or, you are abroad and data-roaming is not working or insanely expensive so you can't use A-GPS.
a) N900 GPS DOES lock with no network link

b) A-GPS is only used once, to download ephemeris and catalogues. After that, you're good. It's not free, but even on the other side of Earth you're still about an Euro or two short.

Agreed, it's not exactly compass, but it's not useless. And, I get a lock in cloudy weather, it's just harder.

On a side note, I tried the iPhone's and by slowly rotating the phone along its axis I was able to get a reading on "West" with a +/- 45 degree error. That is, fiddle with it enough and West will be South.

I find this to be unusable. Better to use GPS, photos, a map, or ask a camel than to think you are going the right way and actually going 90 degrees to the west.
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