Where’s the GPS fix for the Samsung Vibrant and Captivate?
Monday, August 2nd, 2010Though we admittedly missed it in our initial review — this is the kind of thing you just expect to work — we circled back and amended our look at Samsung’s Captivate and Vibrant when we discovered that AGPS is completely busted. Not “sort of working,” not “flawed,” just utterly broken and non-functional; we waited minutes upon minutes without a location lock in our follow-up testing. AGPS is the kind of thing you don’t miss until you don’t have it, at which point you realize how woefully inadequate straight-up GPS alone is for mobile use when you’re frequently (for some of us, nearly continuously) trying to locate yourself indoors, under a tree, or in the heart of an urban canyon.

