What AT&T Phones Can Be Used With GPS-Assisted Google Maps?

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I have been looking for this info, but every forum and web site has different "Claims". What phones (PDA & Non-Smart-Devices) does AT&T sell that can be used with the newer versions of Google maps? Google Maps with the A-GPS, Tower-Triangulation; whatever you want to call it, service? Or does AT&T lock this feature out of their phones?
 
How well does it work? I have heard some people claim the Locator in Google Maps located them within a few hundred feet; while others said it was within several blocks. It's weird though how far Blackberry's have come. I remember the giant black phones with ugly screens that had no advanced features. Now it's like every new Blackberry is more advanced and unique then it's predecessor.
So if a Blackberry can use Google Map's GPS services, then hopefully more phones on AT&T's network can as well.
 
Some phones take a long time to acquire a GPS signal. Until the GPS signal is acquired, they display a circle around the wireless site to which the phone is connected. You might see the center of the circle move as the phone connects to different wireless sites.
 

How actuate are the tower locations? Are they good enough to drive along with? Or are they too broad to be useful?



I really want to know if the Tower Triangulation and/or GPS in Google Maps Mobile would work with phones like the Pantech Matrix, Samsung Propel, LG Vu, Samsung Eternity or any other Non-Smart-Devices. Phones that have either Query keyboards or Touch-Screens, but that don't require costly PDA data plans.
 

It's a nice price, but Google Maps is free and includes more features. And Google Maps is better for those people who don't use that type of feature everyday. $4.99 extra per-month might not be that costly, but what if you only use the GPS feature once or twice a month?

I ordered the Samsung Eternity; so I will know soon enough whether it can use Google's Latitude. I know on some web sites people have said they can use the Tower-Triangulation, but that they couldn't use the GPS. That is why it can get so annoying trying to find the right answers, because every other site has differing info.
 
I have been playing with the AT&T Samsung Eternity for a few days now and I can't get the GPS to work in it. I can get tower-triangulation to work. And I had to keep re-downloading Google Maps to get rid of the stupid (Allow, Always Ask) nag window. It's still nice to have tower-triangulation, but it keeps finding me on the other side of i-24; so it is up to several miles off of my correct location. On the forum for the Eternity, people have claimed if you keep re-downloading Google Maps that it will trick the phone into using GPS, but I don't have the patients for that right now. It took me a bunch of downloads just to change the (Allow, Always Ask) nag window to (Allow, Ask Once); so I don't want to try that right now.

So the Eternity as it is now can't use GPS.
 
The re-downloading until you get a registered copy that the Eternity recognizes will end the constant "allow ask once" prompt from popping up every time you enter.

As for the GPS, no... AT&T limits apps that it doesn't sell from tapping into the onboard GPS. You know, it's because you bought the hardware, not the right to use it :smart:
 
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