Official: GPS fix is being pushed out

[Jahf]

From what I hear is att employees are trying to push the torch and iphone over the captivate , take that for what its worth .

all the employees have iphones.. they defiantly push it.

I just bought 2 Captivates in a store in Tulsa, OK last night. I chose it on my own but once I had picked it every single rep I spoke with (and when you're porting a number from a T-Mobile account you're sitting around for awhile ... 2 hours ... enough time to talk to alot of reps) was telling me tricks and tips for the Captivate ... because every one of them had just switched to it from either an iPhone or an older Android phone.

Absolutely no one even mentioned buying the iPhone.

Word is getting through

 

[Prim8]

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I applied JH3. Coincidentally I was to take a 100 mile drive the next day. Worked what appeared to be perfect on the way to Kansas City. As I neared my very last turn, it said to turn left on whatever street, I did, and it immediately had no idea where I was.

Then driving back to the freeway, it had me driving on a cul-de-sac that ws off to my right (not interescting the street I was on). Driving home on the freeway I was in the fields.

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I don't know how the GPS on the captivate is supposed to work but I know when I had my 3GS it's GPS did this sort of thing fairly often when it lost the cellular signal or it got weak.
Once I got closer to a tower it picked me back up.
I don't know if the iPhone 4 works without needing the towers or if the Captivate hardware is supposed to. Switching phones may not matter on that particular drive.

As a side note, I used my Captivate for Navigation for the first time since I got it and it took probably 10 minutes to lock on but once it did, it worked pretty well. There was one time on the way to where I was going it put my position on the wrong road, and it happened 3 times on the way back. None of the times lasted more than 10 seconds before it corrected itself.
Luckily I always check my directions before I leave so I had an idea where I was going, and Google Nav has a button to push to see the directions in situations such as this so it wasn't a big deal.

 

[qwertyaas]

I just bought 2 Captivates in a store in Tulsa, OK last night. I chose it on my own but once I had picked it every single rep I spoke with (and when you're porting a number from a T-Mobile account you're sitting around for awhile ... 2 hours ... enough time to talk to alot of reps) was telling me tricks and tips for the Captivate ... because every one of them had just switched to it from either an iPhone or an older Android phone.

Absolutely no one even mentioned buying the iPhone.

Word is getting through

Same with me. I just went in and said right away to give me the Captivate, and he started raving about it.

 

[MikeyMike01]

Same with me. I just went in and said right away to give me the Captivate, and he started raving about it.

I went in about a week before the Captivate came out and asked about the iPhone 4. He told me forget it, it has a lot of problems and that this phone was coming out in about a week and to come back and get it.

 

[qwertyaas]

I went in about a week before the Captivate came out and asked about the iPhone 4. He told me forget it, it has a lot of problems and that this phone was coming out in about a week and to come back and get it.

To honest, the only thing that temps me about the iPhone is the App store (which sadly destroys Android at the moment and is a pretty significant talking point when picking phones).

But after getting used to my Captivate, playing with my friends iPhone isn't the same - I can't get used to the small screen size. I still can't understand why Apple went with a 3.5inch display when everything else is pushing 4-4.3inch now.

 

[Thare187]

I went it to an AT&T store and told the lady taking names that I was only in for a phone case. She says, "3GS or iPhone 4?" It's funny how they assume.

 

[qwertyaas]

Update about my GPS.

While going out tonight to a concert, decided to use Google Nav to see how it's working. Each time it locked on within seconds, kept the lock the whole time down to exactly where I was. On the way home I went off the suggested route a few times and each time it recalculated the route within 5 seconds.

In short, Google Nav seems to work great. Google Maps is still spotty for some reason.

 

[bluenova]

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