Samsung app add GLONASS support to your Samsung Windows Phone

September 8, 2011 | By Surur

If anyone asked if any Windows Phones supported the Russian GLONASS GPS Navigation system I would have said no way, but it seems Samsung has all kinds of surprises up its sleeve.

Samsung has just released a High Fidelity Position app which not only adds GLONASS support, but also uses sensors like the accelerometer and compass for enhance GPS accuracy and sensitive.

GLONASS, an alternate GPS system created by the USSR, was previously only reserved for specialist dedicated devices, but since 2010 has found a presence in most mobile chipsets.

The app uniquely integrates directly with Windows Phone 7 settings, providing another potential route for OEMs to enhance their phones significantly without having to push a full update.

The app is free and can be found n Marketplace here.

Via WPCentral.com

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http://twitter.com/arnehelseth Arne Helseth

The QSD8250 doesn’t support GLONASS though… so while the compass improvements should help (once they roll out the new drivers) it still won’t pick up positioning data from the GLONASS constellation.

I’m guessing this is more so aimed towards their newer model(s) utilizing the later generation snapdragons.

http://twitter.com/XIPRELAY David

Aren’t all snapdragon processors firmware upgradable tho ?
GLONASS is on abouts 1500 mhz while GPS(NAVSTAR?) uses something in the 1200Mhz range IIRC , however since the chipsets firmware is open i don’t see anything stopping new software updates from burning new radio instruction sets

Anonymous

So if the app integrates directly with settings and doesn’t show up under program, how would one go about uninstalling it later?

http://twitter.com/xyhchina Yihang Echo XU

Not possible, unfortuanately. But on other hands, who would like to uninstall such a funtion?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Milad-Bazzaz/100000479683479 Milad Bazzaz

lol…how can anyone with a brain really want to uninstall a setting?

Anonymous

yo genius, try to think about other future apps that integrate directly into settings. Surely there would be times where you install something to try it out and decide it doesn’t really suit your needs? Why wouldn’t you want to uninstall it in such a case? Or maybe you are running low on storage and want to get rid of some apps you rarely use?

Bottom line is, if it’s an app that I download and install from Marketplace, I would expect there’s some way to uninstall it. I’m just curious what that method is for this new class of apps.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Sergey-Durnov/100000964100298 Sergey Durnov

Yay, I hope Nokia will have it too.

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