I've had metro view for my iphone 4-5, and the problem is the signal in areas like in the mountain and unground tunnels losses signal compared to my tomtom GPS 730, I've read that iPhones have a true GPS hardware but why does it do this and my tomtom doesn't?
iPhone 4-5 metro view signal issues
DEvok on 03/10/2012 - 14:04
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Cheers, never knew that. Also since GPs"s like Tom toms and garmen are gone down on price for last couple of years, now you can purchase ones around $100 mark, why don't smart phones use the same hardware? Is it a size factor or still manufacturing costs?
Size factor (weight and thin-ness restrictions), power consumption (battery costs), costs of production and using an expensive GPS chipset.
Because the GPS microcontroller chips they use in phones are inferior to dedicated GPS's?
A dedicated GPS has a much better antenna and a more sensitive chip overall, which uses more power and can receive signals even through several layers of walls. That's why they fare better in the city than phones do.