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Feb

7

2012

LightSquared Requesting the FCC Require Stricter GPS Device Standards

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by Josh O'Donnell
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LightSquared, the company which has spent billions of dollars developing a whole-sale only wireless broadband network, filed a document with the FCC regarding stricter standards of GPS devices. LightSquared believes that signals that are used as part of GPS bands are the culprit of interference on the spectrum that they’ve chose to use for their [...]

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Jan

22

2012

Snapdragon Running Sony Smartphones Get Extra Support From GLONASS GPS Systems

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by Jack Holt
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If you are the proud owner of an Xperia phone with a Snapdragon S2 or S3 and you feel that your GPS is lacking then you are in luck. Sony announced that these phones will be able to connect to Russia’s GLONASS GPS system. Adding this support gives your Sony device a total of 55 [...]

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Jan

2

2012

Asus Transformer Prime Revealed to Have Locked Bootloader, Users Complain of GPS Issues

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by Jack Holt
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For those of you that are still waiting for your Transformer Prime to ship you may be a little more reluctant on signing for your package when it arrives. Folks and users who were able to successfully get their hands on this fancy new Tegra 3, quad-core device are starting to report issues pertaining to the [...]

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Nov

30

2011

Vodafone Acknowledges Galaxy S II GPS Bug Caused by Recent Android 2.3.3 Update

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by Stacy Bruce
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Recently, Vodafone acknowledged complaints from many Samsung Galaxy S II owners who claim to be experiencing GPS problems ever since the most recent firmware update was issued. Reports are showing that GPS services are now taking extremely too long to lock on to a usable signal and sometimes wont even lock on at all. Thankfully, [...]

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Oct

21

2011

What does the Galaxy Nexus plan on doing with a barometer?

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by Stacy Bruce
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There are so many reasons to fall in love with the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus – let me count the ways. A huge 4.65″ HD Super Amoled display, Android 4.0, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, LTE, barometer, 1 GB of RAM, wait…. barometer?!! Yes you read correctly, barometer. Apparently Samsung isn’t including a barometer in the Galaxy Nexus [...]

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Aug

29

2011

Acer Iconia A500 3.2 update now moved to September 10th

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by Jim Farmer
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A friend of mine has the Iconia A500 and loves it. As a Xoom owner, I have to say that the larger bezel and full size usb of the Iconia are functional attractors, but he’s always had to look on enviously at my up to date Honeycomb. Acer told us the Iconia would receive Honeycomb [...]

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Jun

29

2011

Pattern Lock by location for the Samsung Galaxy S II

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by Jesse Bauer
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Many people are awaiting the full scale Android assault that is the Samsung Galaxy S II launch in North America, and with that comes lots of new developments as well. XDA member terranim has done some research ( a lot of research) on the Pattern lock for the Samsung Galaxy S II, and found it [...]

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Jun

9

2011

Google maps with Navigation going offline mode in summer?

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by Jesse Bauer
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What would make a company like TomTom or Garmin shake a little when it comes to competition? How about Google Maps with Navigation offering a downloadable offline mode application? That’s the word on the street according to AllAboutPhones who reports that Google is launching just that this summer. The application would not require any users [...]

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May

24

2011

Review: Mobeo from Mobywan, Social Location-based Gaming

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by Adam Johnson
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Actions Speak Louder. So throw a Flaming Cabbage. Yea, thats right, Flaming Cabbage. Today we’re going to discuss a location based game called Mobeo, which utilizes an arsenal of throwable items from flaming cabbages to bad eggs, agitated soda cans, angry missiles, and more. Non-throwable or “traps” including but are not limited to, slippery bananas, bottomless [...]

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