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True GPS finally available for the Sprint Mogul

Judie Lipsett Stanford — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:08:08 +0000

I was one of the first people to buy a Sprint Branded HTC Mogul, and one of the things that made it so attractive at the time was the promise of a free Rev. A upgrade and true GPS…one day. Well it looks as if the day recently came for those still using their Moguls, and although I am no longer one of them, all that’s left is to hear how well it really works.

Joel at Geek.com has written about the experience of upgrading his Mogul to EV-DO Rev.A, which he said brought a “a much needed speed increase for both download and upload.”

The other benefit was, as the Sprint press release put it, the enabling of “advanced GPS functionality allowing support of popular applications such as Sprint Navigation. Sprint Navigation provides audio and visual turn-by-turn directions, more than 10 million local listings, and one-click traffic rerouting on compatible phones, similar to an in-vehicle GPS system.”

Joel started by downloading Google Maps for Windows Mobile, and was properly impressed when his Mogul showed a dot in the “part of the house that [he] was actually sitting in.”

Testing ensued when he left the house for a drive, and his Mogul was able to track his progress in real time. Trouble aro
se when he demanded real-time directions from Google Maps. Evidently the program didn’t “automatically advance [him] to [his] next direction point and instead required [him] to step through it manually.”

Bummer.

Perhaps improved real-time directions will be better implemented in a future Google Maps update, but in the meantime, Joel is enjoying “having one device that can serve as a mobile phone, an Internet tablet, a music and video player, and now a useful GPS.”

[via Geek.com]

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Obviously this one wasn’t thought through: Apple Safari Edition

Judie Lipsett Stanford — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:25:48 +0000

Remember how Apple snuck a Safari install on many unsuspecting Windows users through the iTunes update last week? Which then caused major uproar and outrage all over the blogosphere? Well it turns out that by doing so, Apple unwittingly made every Windows Safari convert violate Apple’s own licensing agreement.

The Safari license agreement states that “users are only allowed to install the Apple browser on “a single Apple-labeled computer at a time”, meaning that those running it on Windows are violating the license.”

How do you like them apples?

[via PCPro]

The ASUS Eee 900 to have multi-finger gesture support

Judie Lipsett Stanford — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:01:32 +0000

As if the ASUS Eee wasn’t already the darling of the geek set for its tasty combination of small size, decent performance and excellent price, a 9″ second generation system is coming, which adds an interesting new twist.

According to Engadget, the manual submitted to the FCC makes “mention of “multi-finger gesture input,” which will apparently provide the ability to zoom in, zoom out, and do familiar two-finger scrolling on the newly resized trackpad.”

Now considering that the Eee ships with Linux, and people haven’t been shy about installing XP in its place, one can only wonder what other OSs might be installed on a 9″ laptop which supports gesture support on its “newly resized trackpad.”

Hmmm…kinda makes you wonder!

[via engadget]