Is it really good to embed GPS in iPhone?
Is it really good to embed GPS in iPhone?
The latest leaks about the iPhone 3G talk about the integration of an A-GPS, a type of GPS and whose operation described in Xataka and that could prove very interesting. Are you sure?.
Integrating a GPS can lead to a great disadvantage, coupled with 3G because already it is not a very buoyant: the battery would be even more resentment, something that already remarked that it seemed to me one of the worst features of the iPhone .
In recent years, GPS devices are finding a huge hole in the average user. Now it seems that GPS is something fundamental, something that we could not live without it. I have been able to prove several GPS and still can not find meaning, although this is certainly my view.
In a phone, the GPS collects some sense: for example, the Nokia N95 has an application which will receive the GPS data, and is putting the route that we conducted on a map. This exercise can be done, save the routes, calculate distances and even speed. Yes, is fine, but what is more?.
Suppose that our iPhone course we want to use GPS in the car: in addition to the need to be constantly turned on the screen, it will also be necessary to take the chip GPS enabled, so that consumption is bestial. The result is that autonomy falls dangerously, and this is the most dangerous for a terminal: that if you drained the battery, forget about using it because it will be shut down.
Another possible option is that, rather than a conventional GPS, Apple wants to have its new iPhone GPS receiver to receive the location, and thus using the position in other applications rather than as a GPS to drive: geolocation Photo System training staff and routes (which already has commented before the N95), or things like: Can a GPS as a car. For the sake of the autonomy of the terminal, no.
Even so, today there is nothing confirmed, although Engadget claiming fairly reliable sources. We would have one of the few devices that combine mobile connection banda ancha (HSPA), GPS and multitáctil screen. Is this good?. Of course, everything is integrated into the same device, but its battery gives me panic.
I think it is still too early to make a terminal all-in-one, and not because there is not enough computing power, that is, but because the batteries offer very little capacity. I think it is too early, and the last thing I want is to have a device to empower a few hours. I do not think for anything useful, and being sincere hope that Apple was not wrong.
