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    Sxps16 Gps

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by jamesweston, Jun 24, 2009.

  1. jamesweston

    jamesweston Notebook Guru

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    The SXPS16 I received today has a WWAN and in the dell connection manager it lists Mobile Broadband and GPS

    Why don't Dell advertise that if you have WWAN it also give you GPS
     
    jamesweston, Jun 24, 2009
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    owais Notebook Deity

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    whats wwan and why would you have actual gps like tomtom?
    also im pretty sure it doesnt hav gps
     
    owais, Jun 25, 2009
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    jamesweston Notebook Guru

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    WWAN is Mobile Broadband it doesn't have software for turn-by-turn navigation it is just has gps witch can be used by apps like Google Earth
     
    jamesweston, Jun 25, 2009
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    Because not all standard Dell WWAN installations support this without doing a driver mod/exchange or reg hack to get the GPS to function... ;)
     
    BlackRussian, Jun 25, 2009
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