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Hi,
I own an iOcean X7, my wife owns a THLw200, I have a few friends who have other similar MTK phones (in terms of price)... all of us are rather unhappy with the GPS lock time or reception quality. Of course, I applied many software or even hardware mods, they seemed (or not) temporary improve the situation a little but still, the GPS of many MTK based smartphone is not reliable. Sometimes the improved situations lasted only one day or one location, changing one of these caused, again, a very long GPS lock.
I am comparing the GPS performance with an Samsung I9060, a side-by-side test showed an amazing fast lock for Samsung with different occasions, 3-10 seconds (both phones restarted and no A-GPS).
Are there any (no-so-expensive) Chinese smartphones that have built-in reliable GPS? Is there any GPS type to be found in the specs or a certain price threshold in order to have a reasonable GPS lock? All the manufacturers says their product has built-in GPS but how could I know this is really working as expected.
I own an iOcean X7, my wife owns a THLw200, I have a few friends who have other similar MTK phones (in terms of price)... all of us are rather unhappy with the GPS lock time or reception quality. Of course, I applied many software or even hardware mods, they seemed (or not) temporary improve the situation a little but still, the GPS of many MTK based smartphone is not reliable. Sometimes the improved situations lasted only one day or one location, changing one of these caused, again, a very long GPS lock.
I am comparing the GPS performance with an Samsung I9060, a side-by-side test showed an amazing fast lock for Samsung with different occasions, 3-10 seconds (both phones restarted and no A-GPS).
Are there any (no-so-expensive) Chinese smartphones that have built-in reliable GPS? Is there any GPS type to be found in the specs or a certain price threshold in order to have a reasonable GPS lock? All the manufacturers says their product has built-in GPS but how could I know this is really working as expected.