Nokia to add Assisted GPS to all new GPS devices

Looks like Nokia's getting serious about Assisted GPS -- in addition to adding support for the network-enhanced location service to the latest N95 firmware, the company has announced that the 6110 Navigator and all future Nokia GPS devices will support the technology. No word on what those devices might be, but here's hoping this means we start seeing GPS chips pop up in a lot more phones.

[Via PhoneMag]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2007 11:06AM]

I thought you said S GPS or stanalone GPS. Assisted GPS depends on the carrier. It's not good

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2007 12:47PM]

Nokia is just creating navigation business to operators who can start charging
for the A-GPS signal as an service + data transfers. They are also saving couple bucks
with integrated chip instead of sirfIII -chip. None of the operators are currently sending
the signal and if they start, they'll charge it for sure. Go and buy some device with SirfIII -chip
instead.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2007 1:18PM]

I believe on the N95 Nokia uses A-GPS to decrease the lock on time for the real GPS chip.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2007 1:36PM]

Monica, this is AGPS with built in GPS. It's better than just built in GPS

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2007 3:20PM]

Can you tell me the difference? I have Sprint and my phone has AGPS. It has a GPS chip. But if I go out of the network area i loose signal, including GPS

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2007 3:48PM]

Monica the Nokia phones involved not only use A-GPS but also have a real GPS chip allowing for GPS coverage even in the Amazon. The A-GPS just helps for a quicker lock but the phone's GPS can be used even out of range of a network signal

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2007 1:47PM]

@Bfish,

Not true... The Nokia A-GPS service not dependant on the operator. Nokia uses their own SUPL server (supl.nokia.com).

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2007 6:20AM]

They mostly use AGPS to get quick fixes. A friend of mine has the 6110 Navigator and its GPS cold starts in matter of seconds where as with N95's earlier firmware getting the fix can take hideously long.