[Neo1973] AGPS - globallocal cuckoo's egg? Re: AGPS server questions

[Sean Moss-Pultz]

On 12/13/06 9:24 PM, "Gabriel Ambuehl" <gabriel_ambuehl at buz.ch> wrote:

>> I fear AGPS from globallocal is a coockoo's egg - they anounced that
>> their AGPS chips cost only 5 US$ - I fear they will make money with
>> their AGPS server services
> 
> If the GPS can do indoor GPS without assistance (which is what the site seems
> to suggest, to me anyway) were are still better off than with a similar GPS
> only chip that has neither indoor nor AGPS features, right?
> 
> If it won't do that, the chip is rather useless to me.
> 
> There's no way in hell I'm gonna *pay* someone to constantly know where I
> am ;)

Don't worry about this stuff guys. The chipset is quite good. We were
getting fixes inside their office. Without AGPS.

And I wouldn't give you a chipset that would cost you money just to use and
would locked to a single solution. That would completely contradict the
concept of OpenMoko.

-Sean