With iPad 3, Apple dropped the A-GPS chipsets from Broadcom BCM475x series that equipped the iPad 1 and 2 and iPhone 4. Since the iPhone 4S and iPad 3, 'New iPad (¹), is now Qualcomm Apple devices that provides a modem integrates all communication functions, Gobi ™ Series modems (²).
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Two years after the GNS 5870 MFI (¹), Global Navigation Systems distributes since 1 June 2012 its new Bluetooth GPS, GNS 1000. Certified compatible with Apple products by Apple label "Made For iPhone / iPod / iPad", it addresses, like its predecessor, primarily for devices that do not have GPS : iPod Touch (from 2G), iPad WiFi all version, old iPhone 3G with GPS chipset was [...]
Redpark company, Emeryville, California, and former founder of Keyspan, designed the C2-GPS GPS Cable for Dock Connector for Apple Devices.
This cable is for connecting external GPS using output protocol NMEA 0183 (version 3.01 or +), and provided with a serial connection, with an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
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iFixit et Chipworks, the two major U.S. websites about dismantling of electronic devices of all kinds, have both recently shelled iPhone 4S not to mention its GPS chipset.
Yet, in a new page of its website concerning the technical specifications of the iPhone 4S, on its website, Apple announces October 19 th location based on assisted GPS and GLONASS. Damned !
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You've probably heard the song Helmut Fritz "It annoys me" ? She will dance to many vacationers this summer campsites and beaches. Well me, what irritates me, is the disbelief of a number, still, about iPhone GPS accuracy. Isn't it stupid, no ?
I have performed a few days ago a small experiment, in a [...]
The German company Global Navigation Systems offers since September 2010 the first GPS Bluetooth for Apple iOS devices. GNS 5870 MFI (*) Bluetooth GPS receiver is fully certified by Apple. It works with iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch 4G and other Bluetooth-enabled handhelds such as smartphones, laptops and PDAs. The quality mark « Made for iPod/iPhone/iPad » ensures compatibility with [...]
The German company Bad Elf offers for sale since 28 October, Amazon and eBay, the first external GPS approved by Apple. The Bad Elf GPS is adapted for the Apple devices dock connector, which have no built-in GPS, to provide all navigation applications, marine or terrestrial, mobile position.
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With the iPhone 4, Apple provides a significantly improved device for use in applications of sea and land, as iNavX.
Our friends at iFixit have dissqucomme accustoms the first device in their hands. Here are the results of their investigations.
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