HACK: Modify N97 GPS To Take It On A Whole New Level!

[Apocalypso]

Take Performance Of N97 GPS To A Whole New Level By Simple Antenna Modification!!



I am talking here as an ardent Smartphone follower and a huge fan of Finnish mobile phone giant for the last 15 years and I just can't tell you how dissatisfied I am with their products and services lately.

We have been seeing lots of hardware design faults with considerable production problems occurring on numerous high-end Smartphones in the recent years and Nokia devices today look like they have been created by the bunch of road workers, bakers, sewage cleaners, and not the engineers.

Engineer would know that if you put hard plastic to protect delicate camera lens, and if some dust particle comes in, it would scratch the glass. In addition, any worthwhile engineer would know that 128 Mb RAM simply is NOT ENOUGH for running multiple applications at the same time, and finally any exper... ..

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Sincerely yours,
Bruno Macek

[huyqvu]

can you post some bigger pictures? the ones you have here are too small.

[Apocalypso]

Hmm, no problems with photos here at all

[Nexus_]

Oh man, there's a fix to get more Ram, a camera cover fix, screen transitions fix, and now even how to make the GPS work even better... the N97 users are really trying their best to improve this flawed device

[Nexus_]

Apocalypso, works now

[topline]

Well my opinion of Nokia just went down the drain with this.

[Apocalypso]

Apocalypso, works now

I guess some problems during upload

[OzziNL]

I still see very small thumbnails when I click on them..



[edit]: only in Firefox

[leetut]

the gps on my n97 is way better than my n95, it even works indoors without this wire trick, just sharing my experience on the subject
still use a seperate tomtom device in the car tho

[huyqvu]

thumbs are working now. thank you