Vodafone satnav solution launches to consumers

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• I am having terrible problems with my Vodafone satnav on my Nokia N95 8GB. It freezes while in trip mode mostly at juncions and roundabouts and usually for some time before it wakes up and starts navigating again. This is most annoying because while it is frozen I can have gone through several other junctions that I shouldnt have done. I have checked my satellite signal when it does this and there have been as many as 6 satellites available. I have it mounted in the windscreen area of the car and the GPS signal is strong. I have had Medion PDA satnavs in the past and have never encountered problems of this nature. Is my phone fauty or is it the software that Vodafone texted to me that is the problem? Posted by Rob Waters, UK
• Nokia recognises this and have come up with the "assisted GPS" idea
  
  The problem was that I found the assisted GPS was fine if you were in the city, but once you got into the countryside, rural areas then it became a problem once again.
  
  Assisted GPS is their work-around to poor GPS satnav eqipment.
  Assisted GPS is NOT "true" satnav. Rather than getting the signal directly from the satellite (as in your cars satnav system), assisted GPS gets its positioning by using ground base stations (Nokia says that it gets it's initial positioning by using these base station and then connects to satellite, I am skeptical of that, I'd love to see their proof of this).
  
  I'll tell you what happened to me & my Nokia N95 (maybe it was just MY phone that was faulty??),
  
  Without assisted GPS the satnav capabilities of my phone was zero.
  
  With Assisted GPS, the satnav at last started to work quite well.
  
  But it was a false dawn, because although in the city all worked well, I wanted to see what happened when I was in more remote areas (country lanes & on a mountain). what i found was that the GPS satnav was useless. It would not find the satellite and location. I ran it alongside my cars satnav. Whereby the cars satnav pinpointed my position wherever i was in the countryside, the N95 failed dismally. After all that hope i was back to square 1.
  
  There equipment must be flawed? Look at the evidence? Why would they come up with assisted GPS? Posted by wayne, UK
• following on from above........
  
  The Satnav On the Nokia N95 didn't work, so i sued Nokia through After 30 days there was no response from Nokia and the court ordered them to refund me £300....Heres my case sent to www.moneyclaim.gov.uk "Goods "not fit for purpose".Claimant purchased a Nokia N95 mobile phone with GPS satnav. At no stage did the GPS work properly. The Claimant contacted T-mobile(sellers)who informed him that responsibility laid with NokiaUk. Nokia offered many fixes&advice on various software updates and patches &other ways to correct the defect(e.g "assisted GPS"). Many hours (hundreds) were expended over several months followingAdvice but to no avail. In Nov2007 the defendant informed the claimant that nothing further Could be done&the claiment took this as an admission that the product was "not fit for purpose". Prior to purchase the claimant researched the manufacturers specs (nokia.com). The phone was purchased from T-mobile (In-house sales line). TheClaimant made it clear to the salesperson that he only wished to purchase a phone with GPS capabilities. He was assured that the GPS would be effective.During the same call the purchase was made. The GPS proved innefective and the claimant now seeks a refund of the costs incurred with this purchase" Posted by wayne, UK