Ah that makes a little more sense than my assumption thinking that Verizon was just being difficult. Well I hope that gets fixed at some point b/c it is kind of a drawback. And IMO that is the only reason I like my at&t phone better even though I really really hate at&t
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew Brampton Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [android-developers] Question About GPS while on the phone >From what I understand, AT&T uses GSM and Verizon uses CDMA, which are different technologies. So it is some what carrier specific only because each US carrier offers a different technology. Andrew On 11 January 2011 14:50, Tommy <[email protected]> wrote: > Very cool. That makes sense. > > Are you sure it's not carrier specific? The reason I ask is because I > have 2 phones both with 3g service one on Verizon and one on AT&T. The > AT&T android phone can surf the net and what not while on the phone, > my Verizon phone and my boss's phones cannot. > > That part isn't a huge deal though. > > Again thank you for your time! > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcin > Orlowski > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [android-developers] Question About GPS while on the > phone > > On 11 January 2011 20:04, Tommy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I know that with some providers you can't be on the phone and use >> Internet at the same time. One example would be my moto droid on >> verizon. Not a big deal as we can put in a broadcast receiver to >> listen to the phone state. My question is is the GPS provider >> affected the same way? In otherwords if I am on the phone will the >> GPS work no matter what? > > It's not a carrier fault. Some data xfer standards (i.e. EDGE) cannot > operate while doing phone call. If you use GPS receiver then it's > completely different hardware and not interfere with phone radio. > However if you want to use cell traingulation instead of GPS receiver > then it needs data connection to map cells to certain location. And it > of course may be not available when on the call if the situation I > formerly described occur > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
