Samsung implication Engadget: NO GPS FIX UPCOMING?

[drizek]

Just spent one hour side by side comparing with nib Evo, nib Epic, Touch Pro 2, Touch pro and Treo Pro. The Epic absolutely has the worst GPS, in every initial metric, acquisition time (TTFF), nubmer of sats, and resolution accuracy confidence

Now go hiking and driving with My Tracks.

 

[seistoes]

wow from samsung to Engadget re GPS:


Wow. Without prejudice to user fixes this means samsung devices will out of the box, and permanently for most users by seriously worse GPS. I say so becasue this is not a new requirement by google and all other makers are ignoring the requirement.

I can set it properly on mine and expect even a rom to come up where fix survives hard reset but most users will never have agps on by default.

WOW

waiting for another tweet from the samsung engineer who claimed a fix is upcoming since apparently samsung is now saying the fix is "forbidden"!

Thank you! This instantly fixed the GPS issues I had with the Epic. Happy again!