- 03-24-2009, 10:48 PM #1
I have been looking for this info, but every forum and web site has different "Claims". What phones (PDA & Non-Smart-Devices) does AT&T sell that can be used with the newer versions of Google maps? Google Maps with the A-GPS, Tower-Triangulation; whatever you want to call it, service? Or does AT&T lock this feature out of their phones?
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- 03-26-2009, 12:48 PM #2Phone Addict
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- 03-27-2009, 01:19 AM #3
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How well does it work? I have heard some people claim the Locator in Google Maps located them within a few hundred feet; while others said it was within several blocks. It's weird though how far Blackberry's have come. I remember the giant black phones with ugly screens that had no advanced features. Now it's like every new Blackberry is more advanced and unique then it's predecessor.
So if a Blackberry can use Google Map's GPS services, then hopefully more phones on AT&T's network can as well.
- 03-27-2009, 02:41 PM #4
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Some phones take a long time to acquire a GPS signal. Until the GPS signal is acquired, they display a circle around the wireless site to which the phone is connected. You might see the center of the circle move as the phone connects to different wireless sites.
- 03-27-2009, 06:46 PM #5
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How actuate are the tower locations? Are they good enough to drive along with? Or are they too broad to be useful?
I really want to know if the Tower Triangulation and/or GPS in Google Maps Mobile would work with phones like the Pantech Matrix, Samsung Propel, LG Vu, Samsung Eternity or any other Non-Smart-Devices. Phones that have either Query keyboards or Touch-Screens, but that don't require costly PDA data plans.
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- 03-29-2009, 01:44 PM #6Newbie
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I'd also be curious to know if my Samsung a777 is capable of this. I don't particularly like the Navigator from ATT, but the google maps GPS looks like something I'd like.
- 03-30-2009, 08:11 PM #7
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If you have the phone, why don't ypu try it? AT&T bundles AT&T Navigator with Data Unlimited for $20.00. This is $4.99 less than the separate prices for the features.
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-pho...tId=cat1830038
- 03-31-2009, 02:02 PM #8
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It's a nice price, but Google Maps is free and includes more features. And Google Maps is better for those people who don't use that type of feature everyday. $4.99 extra per-month might not be that costly, but what if you only use the GPS feature once or twice a month?
I ordered the Samsung Eternity; so I will know soon enough whether it can use Google's Latitude. I know on some web sites people have said they can use the Tower-Triangulation, but that they couldn't use the GPS. That is why it can get so annoying trying to find the right answers, because every other site has differing info.
- 04-03-2009, 03:50 PM #9
No GPS Google Maps On The Samsung Eternity So Far
I have been playing with the AT&T Samsung Eternity for a few days now and I can't get the GPS to work in it. I can get tower-triangulation to work. And I had to keep re-downloading Google Maps to get rid of the stupid (Allow, Always Ask) nag window. It's still nice to have tower-triangulation, but it keeps finding me on the other side of i-24; so it is up to several miles off of my correct location. On the forum for the Eternity, people have claimed if you keep re-downloading Google Maps that it will trick the phone into using GPS, but I don't have the patients for that right now. It took me a bunch of downloads just to change the (Allow, Always Ask) nag window to (Allow, Ask Once); so I don't want to try that right now.
So the Eternity as it is now can't use GPS.
- 11-11-2009, 08:14 PM #10
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The re-downloading until you get a registered copy that the Eternity recognizes will end the constant "allow ask once" prompt from popping up every time you enter.
As for the GPS, no... AT&T limits apps that it doesn't sell from tapping into the onboard GPS. You know, it's because you bought the hardware, not the right to use it
- 11-19-2009, 01:41 PM #11Junior Member
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The HTC Hero from Telus allows you to use Google's new Navigation app. This phone works with AT&T's 3G network too. Just need to unlock it. I'm in Canada, so I just fot a few of them.
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