Ciuly's Blog – Reinventing the wheel

I’m in the wind after some GPS and figured I could as well upgrade my phone. So here I am searching for GPS enabled phones just to find out that most of them are actually A-GPS (Assisted GPS) phone scoop have all the definitions with explanations and types of GPSes from what I’ve noticed. Just look in their glossary. Also, search fro some phones with GPS and you’ll notice some have just “yes” others “A-GPS” others also have LBS or something, others E-ODT, and so forth.
But what I am interested is a phone with REAL as in STANDALONE GPS module. For 2 reasons:
– 1: have GPS even if no carrier coverage
– 2: not pay monthly fee or data transfer fees
Now, there are some phones that have a GPS module but rely solely on A-GPS. Some of which may be “tricked” into using the real GPS module without the “A” but I’m not into “tweaking”.
So, what I’ve done is to spend quite a few hours on phonescoop and searched their database for all the phones with standalone GPS module. It wasn’t easy as they only show 20 results (no pagination) so you are stuck on tweaking the filters in order to get all the phones in those 20 results without getting through the same phone twice.
I did something like (simple search): select manufacturer (one bye one, or by group of 3-5-7 if their name suggested me that the changes of them making many phones with gps was small), also requiring GSM (we only have that and CDMA in our country and the CDMA operator is a shitty idiot one that does not accept other phones in their network and as stated above, I’m not into tweaking so flashing is off the table)..
If the results were too big, then I would require the form factor, one by one or again, by group, where the changes of a gps phone is small. if there were still too many, I would go with display resolution, one by one or grouping. And this was the deepest level I had to go with the Nokia’s.

So, long story short, here’s the list if anyone else is interested:

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