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SoloPda GPS Test - - Intro, competitors |
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Scritto da Gnam
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mercoledì 06 giugno 2007 |
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SoloPDA Test (page 1)
HTC P3600 Against The Best
 Both useful and highly appreciated to the point that it has become a strong selling point for the entire handheld market, an integrated GPS receiver has become an almost essential hardware requirement for many users. That's probably another reason why the unexpected addition of a new all-in-one handheld into this market sector, namely the HTC P3600, is seen as a welcomed competitor. HTC initially released the P3600 onto the market with its GPS navigation capabilities intentionally locked. However, the full potential of the HTC P3600 has now been unlocked thanks to a recently released official firmware update - this device can now enjoy a second lease of life as it becomes one of the better pocket-sized handhleds that can now also serve as a capable "Global Positioning System".
 The P3600 has an integrated GPS chipset called GPSOne and we already raised some doubts over the technical specifications of this internal device during a closer look we made some time ago. Now, however, we have decided to place this device in direct competition with other GPS equipped handhelds as we put it though an actual road test: to do this we'll put it through rigid empirical tests, pitting the HTC P3600 against another 4 well-known and worthy challengers.
 Our test sees five rivals go head to head: two top of the range smartphones from E-TEN, the Glofish M700 and GlofishX500; a smarphone specifically designed for use as a satellite assisted navigational system, the Mio P550; a HTC P3300 and, finally, the new-kid-in-town, the P3600.
It should be made clear from the start that all these handhelds, except one, come with the internal SiRF Star III chipset, widely acclaimed as one of the best GPS receivers available thanks to its fast signal acquisition and for being able to keep a fix in locations where other devices fail. The odd one out in this test is actually the P3600, the device which leaves the task of calculating satellite coordinates to the GPSOne chipset produced by Qualcomm.
As you can see, the competition appears particularly interesting, partly because the participants are all highly quoted devices, but also because we are placing two noticeably different hardware chipsets against each other (one of which, the SiRF Star III, is the apparent favourite).
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