I bought an iPhone 3GS a few months ago and I was very pleased to see how well it performed, and how smooth and responsive it was. I then downloaded AT&T Navigator to start using GPS. It sucked! I then downloaded Motion-X GPS Drive. It sucked too!
I couldn't figure it out. New iPhone and GPS is just horrendous. I thought perhaps it had to do with where the iPhone was in the car. Perhaps this is just how the iPhone GPS is. I didn't know.
A few days ago, the final straw was that my iPhone couldn't pick up GPS for ten minutes as I was sitting in the passenger seat on my way to NYC. Didn't make any difference where I was holding the iPhone, it just couldn't get a signal.
I decided this was a good sign that the iPhone was broken. I then compared my iPhone's GPS signal, using Motion-X GPS Lite, side-by-side with my sister-in-law's iPhone 3GS. Yup! It was confirmed, I had a faulty iPhone.
I hit the Apple store today, and Apple kindly replaced my iPhone with what appears to be a new iPhone. I restored my iPhone through iTunes, and my GPS has been working wonderfully since then.
I am much happier with my iPhone...
Monday, January 25, 2010
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