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Originally Posted by akosnitzky
Wirelessly posted (Verizon 8830: BlackBerry8830/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)
On my wife's 8130, which has 4.3, I still see the blue dot. With the "location on" setting. So I assume you need have an actual GPS client enabled such as VZW navigator. ??????
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Won't use the GPS on Verizon Pearls...the GPS is locked and only works with VZNav...will NOT work with other nav software.
For GPS nav w/the VZW pearl you need an external Bluetooth GPS unit...
I've used GMaps 2.0 w/my Sony BT GPS, and it worked beautifully. In Satellite view, when I zoomed in, it had placed me in the actual part of my home I was sitting in. Pretty amazing, to me.
Using Tower-location (no GPS), it usually puts me about two miles or so away from my actual home (where I'm sitting) . One time it put me about 3/4 of a mile away.
With GPS, great. W/out GPS, for me, still more of a parlor trick.
If I was on the road in a strange location and wanted to know where I was, I wouldn't feel I could trust it for much more than a very general sense of where I was.
But hey, it's more than there was before, and hopefully they can improve the tower location over time for those w/out GPS.