As I told you previously I used the paid Sprint service before purchasing a Bluetooth receiver and it worked fine for turn by turn navigation.
There are many posts on the forums that confirm that the PPC-6700 has GPS.
Part of what you say about the enhanced 911 system, but part is not... There were 2 ways E911 location (Phase II) was implemented. There were phones GPS chips in the handset as in the PPC6700 and also phones that used Triangulation with cell towers which were less precise, and more expensive for the carrier. The mistake that you are making is combining the two groups together and claiming both have the same specs and accuracy and which is not the case. In addition the PPC-6700 does have an internal GPS antenna.
As I said they are many contradictory posts on this and if you choose to keep believing what you are convinced of I probably have no hope of changing your opinion. The primary reason that I know which is true is because before I bought a Bluetooth unit so I could use Google Maps etc. I used the Sprint Nav paid feature. It was turn by turn and it worked with much greater accuracy than would have been possible as you have described. I would love to provide you with a Sprint Bill to prove it, but I don’t have time to dig through ten year old records.
If you need me to I will try and provide you with dozens of other posts similar to the following:
20th June 2008, 02:22 PM |#15
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Thanks Meter: 125There was a long thread about this over on pdaphonehome a while back. In short:
YES, the PPC-6700 DOES have stand alone GPS functionality. There was an email from HTC posted where they confirmed this. The reason it does not work stand alone is because Sprint requested it be disabled (I guess they wanted to charge for their own navigation package). But there is built in GPS that can use cell tower triangulation and regular GPS. Some people actually had the Verizon version working in a roundabout way for a while.
Sprint service is a server based system . . . it does not use anything on your phone except the very general plus or minus 110 meter accuracy of your e911 GPS that your phone is capable of generating. Sprint then extrapolates your location as closely as it can and locates you on a map it sends you. In some urban areas, it may be as accurate as 10 meters.
Your phone cannot do GPS absent a Sprint Internet connection. What the Sprint GPS is doing is the MS Assisted GPS as was described in a linked article above. You have to pay for this service. It cannot be downloaded into your phone because it lacks the hardware to work.
Alternately, you have to buy an external bluetooth GPS transceiver which DOES have the radios, antennas, and chipset that your phone completely lacks.
There are many posts on the forums that confirm that the PPC-6700 has GPS.
And you can find many posts on the internet that show even more people love Obama and think he's the best president the US has ever had. That doesn't make it true. . . or make him the greatest President.
Nor do all those posts make that GPS capability in the PPC-6700's processor at all useful for anything except e911. . . which is what it is intended for as all the authoritative links, I have provided to you have claimed and shown, including Qualcomm, fireman15!
Every phone made since 2005 has the exact same GPS in it. . . e911 GPS. . . and it is not what you and those people on the internet forums think it is. I posted the information on exactly WHAT it is. . . but you have continuously ignored it. Your processor has the capability of calculating your position by interpolating the position of nearby cellular towers and checking with Verizon's data bases for known Verizon WIFI hotspots and Trilaterating the phones position from those data. If it had access to satellite data, it could also use those data as well, but it doesn't, so it uses what it has sent to it from Sprint/Verizon.
YOUR phone does not have the GPS radios nor does it have the specialized GPS chips or antennas that are absolutely required for satellite GPS to work. These radios and antennas have to be tuned to 1575.42 MHz (10.23 MHz × 154) and 1227.60 MHz (10.23 MHz × 120) and the antennas have to be an exact specific length to receive those signals. They just do NOT exist in your phone. The radios it has are tuned to 1900MHz and 800MHz, as are the antenna lengths. It needs one more radio receiver and two more antennas that just aren't there. Oops!
All of the calculations and turn-by-turn directions were done OFF site by Sprint's GPS servers, not your phone. . . which downloaded the data to your Windows phone.
It would work with ANY Windows cellular phone in Sprint's system that can display a map and play a voice. . . because by law all cellular phones are required to have an e911 GPS capability. Do you understand now?