This week: Verizon GPS, Location Based Services discussion, and an elegy for Windows Mobile Standard. Listen in! Download it directly with this link Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe directly to the Podcast feed with your favorite Podcatcher here Listen to it here with this flash player: News Verizon! GPS! Whoa! Consumer Reports + Dieter has the magazine in front of him A new Moto...
Ok, we're totally not going to take credit for this, but it looks like people who have joined our campaign to demand Verizon unlock GPS on their Windows Mobile offerings are receiving a stock reply that's looking, well, good! User efudd sends us his reply from the Big V: Verizon Wireless, like all carriers, orders devices to meet certain specifications inclusive of features. Each...
No surprises here if you've been following the ROM modding community, but it looks like lllboredlll over at ppcgeeks has figured out how unlock the standalone GPS on that odd Verizon Touch Pro. This is of course before Verizon "officially" does it sometime next year. The method is old hat for many and is unfortunately not as easy as installing a simple .cab. but it's not too bad either...
Dear Readers, As you may know, the GPS situation on Windows Mobile is becoming unacceptable. We're not talking about the fact that on certain phones you need to go into settings and muck around with Program Com Ports and Hardware Com Ports (though that, too, is pretty unacceptable). We're talking about GPS being locked down. This has to stop and we need your help to stop it. Read...
Sprint is dropping the price on their Family Locator Service. Yep -- Sprint tells us it's fully compatible with Windows Mobile devices, too. Now when you sign up for Family Locator it will only cost you $5 instead of $10 to track down those beloved children of yours. Mostly designed for the
If rule No. 1 in business is "Location, location, location," rule No. 2 should be "Your butt better be on time." Consider the following: You're on your way to an important meeting full of important people, but there's just no way you're going to get there on time. If only there were a way to discretely — or, not so discretely — let a colleague know you're on your way, but running...
Google again is expanding its footprint on the mobile world. Its "My Location" feature, which uses cell towers to roughly triangulate your position in Google Maps, is now coming to mobile Web apps, thanks to the Gears Geolocation API. "But, Phil," you say, "I already know where I am. What can this possibly do for me?" For devices without GPS, it should mean a lot. We're talking...
If you're anything like us, you're tired of getting lost for those weekly lunches in Paris. (Note to Dieter - start hosting weekly lunches in Paris.) But if you're a fan of TeleNav, AT&T's got you covered. The company's subscription navigation service has gone live outside the U.S., offering 3-D maps, voice and turn-by-turn directions in 20 other nations. And that includes a...
Built in GPS is starting to become more common with newer WM cell phones now, and everyone can get a BT GPS unit for their phone. So if you want to take advantage of all this access to the satellites in the sky, then you have to decide on which GPS software program is best for you. We here at WMExperts have been working our way through the most popular options (TomTom Navigator 6,...
One feature I have always enjoyed with GPS units is the digital compass, speedometer, and trip functions (calculating travel time, average speed, etc.). GoogleMaps and LiveView are probably the two most popular mapping program for smartphones but while they can show you were you’re at, where you need to go, there are very few utilities (if any?) on these programs. Efficasoft Software...
Mapping software has been available for cell phones, laptops, and pdas for years. When Rand McNally, DeLorme and other mapping companies first introduced these software packages, GPS compatibility was inevitable. While phones such as the Samsung BlackJack II have begun to incorporate GPS into the phone itself, many rely on external GPS receivers either connected through an expansion...
Within the same month that I bought my first PDA that had Bluetooth (BT), I bought my first BT GPS unit and never looked back. With my work, I have to travel a lot, so for years I have used GPS on my phone. It has become an invaluable tool for me personally and professionally. There are times that I will fly into a city I have never been to before, and I have to visit up to 45...
When we heard that the Mogul updated was coming, we were excited. When we heard that the Mogul update had arrived, we partied like we always do when there's a ROM Update (yes, we are nerds). EVDO Rev A. (first ever!) and GPS will do that to you. However, just like when we party too hard in real life, we're hearing that some folks are experiencing a bit of a post-update hangover....
I am not one to take rumors of ROM updates very seriously as you can see from my last thread on the topic in the PPC-6800 forum. But it appears that this time might be different. One of our newest members to the forums, Charlesclai, was the first to post that a Sprint rep shared that Monday March 10th is the date that they were just given in their Window Mobile Training this last week...
Although the Official download site isn't showing the new update, HTC has posted the long-awaited update to the Sprint Mogul, just as we predicted over the weekend. Go get it: Direct Download from HTC America Update: HTC is getting hammered. We'll host a mirror here for now: Mirror Since HTC hasn't yet posted the official update list, we can't say for sure what we're in...
Continuing my newbie trek into the world of GPS, first I reviewed some hardware for the Treo 7xx series and now I'll take a look some software, namely OnCourse Navigator 6 (OCN6) - $89.95. How did I fare with this admittedly simple-to-setup GPS solution? OnCourse Navigator is just about as *simple* as you can get for setting up a relatively sophisticated GPS software mapping...
In my line of work I am on the road a lot. I will often times fly into cities I have never been before and have to find and visit several different retail locations in time before catching a plane back home that evening. So I use GPS a lot. Since I have a Garmin GPS unit in my car at home, I could just use that, but lugging one more thing around is not what I want to do. So I will...
Well it looks like the Verizon Touch that surfaced last Friday is coming a might bit quicker than we expected, given that Engadget Mobile just scored a bunch of pics and details. Check out their Gallery to find out that, uh, it looks identical to the Sprint version (except for that white thing). No word yet on what they'll be putting on the TouchFLO cube, but it does look like there...
Take a look above, folks, it's the ROM update for the Mogul we've all been waiting for. Well, almost. It's a prerelease leak. It activates GPS (which isn't locked down at all, Woo Hoo!) and seems to also address some of the Bluetooth hassles Mogul owners have come to know and love hate. Installing it is a bit of work (check out this helpful thread here. Hat tip to Strohs and...
With discussions and speculation about what features the new Treo 800w will have, the convoluted and very confusing issue of aGPS versus GPS naturally arises and which, if either, the 800w will include. So what is aGPS? How does it differ from real GPS if at all? We'll fill you in on the full skinny -- which sadly can be anything from "just e911" to "Better than standard GPS." Read on...