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2008-04-29 , 07:13
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
You can't possibly believe this to be a accuracy issue, as you don't need to be very accurate to ballpark proximity. Acquisition time I can understand—especially for certain unlucky individuals in certain areas—but it's not that bad for most.
It is not good enough for the job specified. It is perfectly accurate when it is working, and I guess if you bolt it in your car it would work, but if you have it in your pocket and take it out to look at, there is no way it is going to aquire a signal unless you are going to stand there for a while.
It would need fairly instant aquisition for this sort of idea to work, like the tomtoms.

Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Out of interest, what's the battery impact leaving the GPS on all the time? (would it be possible to use it in some sort of low-power mode with infrequent updates or somesuch?)
Not something I could try on mine!