All of you know that Apple is most likely prepping a genuine GPS feature for the next iPhone 2.0, some may have over rejoice to hear the news but some may not.Brian Lam (Gizmodo) has very good reasons on the drawbacks of having GPS feature inside your new iPhone 2.0 have outweigh the benefits:
- The location tech in the current iPhone is much quicker. No matter what chip, even SiRFstar chips in full blooded GPSes take awhile to lock on. When using the very capable N95, I'd often drive across town or walk half way to my destination before I'd get signal lock.
- I'd never use an iPhone as a car GPS. Not even with updated software. The amount of work and expertise that goes into a high end, 5+ generation Garmin is some serious stuff. The logic is all proprietary. It's not easy to do. And GPS antennas need to be somewhat pointed. If it's on your dash, it needs to be on the back. If it's for walking, it needs to be on the front. Which is it?
- Battery life gets screwed when you keep the GPS on with constant updates.
- These chips aren't exactly small, although they have been known to fit in things like Suunto watches. That going to make this thing thicker?
But we'll have to see whether it's going to be actually true or not, since we still don't know if an embedded GPS is going to be in iPhone 2.0 and what iPhone 2.0 looks like. We'll soon see on June 9th, where it's not over until the fat-woman sing ...errr, I mean until Steve Jobs announce it ;-D
[blogged with my Treo 750v]
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