uFoundIt

Well, in my search for a phone with decent GPS support, I’ve found the Motorola Q9c. For a change, Sprint has released a phone with an actual GPS receiver in the phone. Most of the phones they claim to have GPS are actually using aGPS. The “a” stands for “assisted” which requires the cell towers to triangulate the receiver’s position and report the location to the phone. The difference with the Q9c is that it is able to report its GPS data through the COM port to applications like Google Maps or Windows Live Search.

While this is great news, it can be a little slow. And the people at Sprint probably figured since the phone can retrieve its GPS data from sattelites, it didn’t need to provide aGPS support (which uses processing power at the cell tower). StarmanDX at sprintusers.com posted a great guide on how to enable aGPS on the Motorola Q9c. By enabling aGPS, the devices is much faster at getting a position lock. (more…)