GPS (ish) Comes to the iPhone!

**pengcm** · 09-19-2007, 04:40 PM

No known wifi nodes or cell towers
Palisades Park, NJ

**Texas34** · 09-19-2007, 04:41 PM

funny....

and fixed....

**HungLO** · 09-19-2007, 04:42 PM

On WiFi at the house:

results: Unable to Locate Your location could not be identified. No known Cells or WiFi nodes in range.

area: Tampa/Brandon, Fl

**Lute** · 09-19-2007, 04:47 PM

results: no cell towers/nodes in area
area: Chester, WV

**pengcm** · 09-19-2007, 04:48 PM

u need to set ur home location first on the Navizon website.
there seems to be some problem with the server right now,
more update later.

**zoidberg md** · 09-19-2007, 05:07 PM

Reno, NV

Home wifi - no
Airport wifi - no
Cell towers - no

**EasyMac30** · 09-19-2007, 05:09 PM

It doesn't recognize any towers in Atlanta.

Fer f***'s sake...

**Tomer** · 09-19-2007, 05:28 PM

works for me

**schlagi** · 09-19-2007, 05:31 PM

i am here in vienna and navizon works.
first i got an error, but now it works.
some 100 metres off of my position.

**Mandara** · 09-19-2007, 05:40 PM

Success with AT&T/WiFi in NY.

**Dash-2** · 09-19-2007, 05:42 PM

Got it installed but doesn't work in Medford, OR on Edge or Wifi.

I think I found the problem though.
If you log into their website, almost every page is "down."
navizon.com

**tallnatt** · 09-19-2007, 06:10 PM

From reading the site I believe it gets its information from Navizon users running wifi, cell, and GPS on a device.

**Rocketerz** · 09-19-2007, 06:13 PM

Newport News, VA

No luck..

**SpectralVeil** · 09-19-2007, 06:14 PM

On the website it looks like you need two programs if you phone doesn't have gps Navizon and Virtual Gps. Is this what is causing everyone's problems- or am I shooting in the dark?

**Kyle Matthews** · 09-19-2007, 06:15 PM

Don't think so. That is for something else. Works fine for me, just doesn't seem to recognize a lot of areas.

**nxovkin** · 09-19-2007, 06:29 PM

I'm in Honolulu, Hawaii and it seems to fine, just a little off positioning. I'm with AT&T and my phone is also unlocked. Right now I'm at work on the 24th floor on WIFI. This is my first time trying it. Works with WIFI but not with EDGE (at work) so far, will try EGDE at a different location. Takes about 7-10 seconds to locate me. GPS has me position out in the streets on the sidewalk about 100 feet away from my building. Not bad considering I'm in Hawaii because we don't even have GPS in our cars over here or even use GPS...for the most part...surprised it even works.

**jordan310** · 09-19-2007, 06:51 PM

Miami Beach, FL.
Wifi - Off = Cannot find cell sites / towers
Wifi - On = Cannot find cell sites / towers

No go here.
Ill try other spots in the city, but ... this kind of stuff makes me wonder why I even bother installing such apps..

**Clem-Clone** · 09-19-2007, 06:56 PM

AT&T, does not work for me.

**Dub** · 09-19-2007, 06:58 PM

In San Francisco bay area, works fine finding my locale via Wi-Fi (drove around and tried many locations), but has yet to pick up anything over EDGE. Running version 1.0.1 with same situation.

Triangulation off cell towers is how this new Mobile-911 service is supposed to work, so it certainly should be possible for an enterprising programmer to pull that function out of the iPhone. Sounds like things are a bit off right now.

It also is not handing over my coordinates to Maps when I tell it I want directions TO or FROM my current location. If I have to type the coordinates into Maps, how much time am I saving?

And I saw on the Navizon corporate blog that the plan is to give this away for 14 days, then charge $24.99 for the app.

**Phionix** · 09-19-2007, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by Jodiedicie

I am on AT&T as well. I get:

Unable to Locate
Your location could not be identified. No known Cells or WiFi nodes in range.

i got the same even with wifi on

aliso viejo, ca

Thread: GPS (ish) Comes to the iPhone!

LinkBack

Thread Tools

Display

Atlanta

works

Posting Permissions