Comments on: iPhone GPS First Movie

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:42:00 +0000

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By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:57:00 +0000

@steve – My N95 8GB, and n73 with external BT GPS both work just fine on the route out of London Waterloo railway station. GPS appears to work well enough in a train, so long as there are windows in the carriage.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:41:00 +0000

Yep true – although our old N95 used to work happily on a train.

Its too early to tell, perhaps the iPhones GPS will be fine although it has been rumored that its not actuate enough to allow turn by turn directions.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:02:00 +0000

It's in a train! With a metal roof, where GPS doesn't work at all.

The fact that it's doing anything is a minor miracle in its own right, so the granularity of movement is probably picking up Wi-Fi signals as the train moves along.

Steve Job's demo of the GPS in the iPhone showed it tracking every squiggle in the famous Lombard St. Of course Jobso uses the best situations for his demos, but there's orders of magnitude difference.