Nokia N95 is getting GPS upgrade

By dutchclick | July 5th, 2007 | Category: software |

Nokia did take action against the GPS problems of its “all-singing, all-dancing” (Mobile Today) Nokia N95. A firmware upgrade is on its way.

The problems have been divers, including the locking of the device while turning on and turning off of a bluetooth headset and even crashing. But most important to us, as passionate GPS lovers, are the solution for the GPS problems.

The time of a ‘fix’ would be cut down from 4 to 15 minutes(!) to 30 seconds, which is also quite fast, for a cold or a hot fix. A fix is the time the gps device needs to know where it is, to say it quite simply.
Next to that the assist-GPS software will ‘help’ the GPS with it’s fix with the help of the GSM network.

I am sure there will be much more news to tell when the upgrade comes out.