In-Flight: HTC Thunderbolt GPS Tracking at 500 mph and 45000 ft - Android Powered
Here’s an area Apple iPhones have nothing on the Thunderbolt: REAL GPS Not only was the HTC able to get a weak cell signal from 45000 ft in the air, its real GPS chip was able to get enough of a satellite location fix that it could match where we were flying!
In-Flight: HTC Thunderbolt GPS Tracking at 500 mph and 45000 ft - Android Powered
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Awesome. Go HTC and go android.
@D14BL0 I can’t believe 3 other people were stupid enough to like this. It’s cold up high.
@fuckinhellnotagain Calm down fanboi. The iPhone doesn’t have real GPS.
Lol iphone
@D14BL0 yes -86 degrees because the higher up in altitude you are the colder it is outside…duh
@xAlexKiblerx if you look at his phone he has wifi enabled
There are 5 GPS concepts to compare
FakeGPS does not receive GPS broadcasts but finds location some other way, such as nearest celltowers.
GPS-only receives GPS signals, and fails if a house or car blocks its view of the sky.
Real A-GPS uses both and combines the result.
Precision A-GPS compares a received GPS signal with a GPS signal received at a reference point to get 2 inch precision.
FastGPS uses an internet connection to download the sattelite flightplan which takes 10 min to get directly
A few feet higher and you might not have gotten a signal because DOD rules require civilian GPS to turn off above 18mi at high speed
@D14BL0 it measures the temperature outside of the plane
@amiga2000 Good luck!!
@MikeonTU The iPhone rocks. It is my primary phone. It doesn’t change the fact that it does not have a real GPS in it. Great for maps and other location based apps but for turn-by-turn directions, you need a real GPS so you don’t keep missing your turns and exits.
@fuckinhellnotagain Ignoring it in what way? I have an iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPad 1, iPad 2, and a handful of iPods. I love my iOS gadgets but none of them have a real GPS chip / antenna inside of them. It is why I have to carry around a Garmin Nuvi 265WT if I want accurate turn-by-turn directions. AGPS is fast, convenient, and reasonably accurate to tell you where you are but it is not the same as a real GPS.
@hettbeans My quick googling tells me that AGPS is not a negative. It is used to improve startup performance of finding your GPS location and can also be used to improve accuracy when there are problems getting clean satellite data. So, your comment, was it supposed to be an insult?
So are you fuckwits ignoring the current iPhone and iPad?
@MikeonTU Too bad the iPhone’s GPS wouldn’t do shit-all without a cell signal. Move along fanboy, you bought the wrong phone.
@D14BL0 Yeah, shit gets cold 45,000ft in the air.
@hettbeans I will carry on. I have loads of extra time since the iPhone performs autocorrect when I misspell something.
@MikeonTU You have no idea what you are talking about.
No amount of software will change the fact that the iPhone does not have a real GPS receiver. It relies on AGPS. Carry on, Apple fanboy.
Man. When the audio cut, I thought my ears popped. I hate you for bringing back those terrible memories.
@D14BL0 Next video: The Thunderbolt tracking location OUTSIDE the plane… :-)
@TheJohnp1943 That is a GOOD question. Can someone help answer?
@xAlexKiblerx That’s a good question. We did in fact have WIFI (you can see the little WIFI signal icon in the upper right) so maybe that’s how it got map data to overlay the location.
@cecilkorik I should have gotten a video of it but before it got dark, you could see the clouds were below us and it got a little dark looking up.
@denimvest No they do not. All iPhones to date are A-GPS. They require location information from cell towers for location data. Try to find an iOS app that shows you the signal strength of the GPS satellites like in this video….
@bossyman15 Not sure man. This was someone else’s phone. I think that was a google map app.