[Galaxy S I9000 General] betoNL:
There is a lot of confusion indeed, users saying "my sgs gps works great" and others saying " sgs gps sucks" and then you going to see users not that experienced with gps, speculating , talking about all kind of theories.

I think that some users get so frustrated, they start to put the "cons" in front of the "pros" more often...we want our "high-end"smartphone to be perfect or near to it, what's kinda of logical thinking; after all, phones like sgs and alike are no "budget" phones like the nokia 5800 xm, I mean they are pricy...

And dont even get me started on that abusevely priced I-phone....

I was more than glad to find out that eventhough the Android OS is relatively young (and some manufactures like samsung, are still struggling to find the best approach to it), it is open-sourced and so popular, that you can already find great apps that will enrich the Android experience and with that ALSO your sgs's gps experience..

So let's suppose that the sgs got whatever(hardwarewise or softwarewise) gps problems:

Isn't it great that you can connect almost any gps software to a (supposely) more capable gps receiver via bluetooth using nice apps from the market after allowing mock locations at settings/development?

I mean on the Nokia(then), the only gps car software I could connect to the external device was the Garmin XT, because garmin unlike many other programs have that feature.

I mean, there are excelent external compact bluetooth gps devices out there (the nokia ld 3w is costing today something like 17 box, so I heard), so why not give it a try when evrything else you tried before is not working and that miraclelous (sorry, english is not my first language) fix or firmware is not coming?

I mean, I have been ironical many times but the bottom line is true:

Exchange or return your device

or

Get a external device to work together with the sgs( thanks to 3rd party android developers, among others)

or

Keep complaining but in a constructive and grounded way (I think that posting comparative videos is the best way)

And once again, at this moment my experience is limited to onboard gps car navigation only.... I think that programs like Google Maps are a whole different ball game(many other factors involved like good working cell networks, supl configurations, region related, etc.) and I wont speculate about it anymore.

About Nokia devices, well, it seems like a long time ago for me, and then, I was taking part only at the Nokia discussion forums; and it's huge!

Go there and start searching. Here is one result concerning the 5800 for instance:

http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?q=5800+gps

What I did notice is that nowadays, many nokia gps problems are solved, but if its reliable or not that's another question; I left those forums a long time ago. Could be, since the Symbian OS is more "matured" (some will say "ancient":p) than Android's and Nokia supplies firmware updates so much often that that would amaze any Android phone user.

Cheers

P.s- Did another test drive yesterday (2 hours) running Motonav with no "assinting" and no external device and it was very stable again even at destination wich was a very crowded section with many small streets....

The only thing is that the first fix takes longer than I'm used (3-5 minutes) but I can speed it up with "Gps status" or alike apps if I want.

-Sorry for the english

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