Sunday, February 24, 2008

Nokia N95 Version Info

Key in *#0000# on opening main menu of your Nokia N95 and you will discover the device firmware version details. Mine are

V 10.2.006
22-08-07
RM-160
Nokia N95 (19.01)

I'm not sure AGPS is crunching number within and I want to optimize the N95 GPS capabilities in el Canyons de Nueva York. I imagine any tuning will help. Naive; maybe. So I'll be taking this unit to my local

Nokia Flagship Store
5 East 57th Street
New York NY
(212) 758-1980

to get the firmware upgrade gratis. That is, if the unit is still under warranty. Stay tuned.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

N95 GPS results on WHERE.com

I'm building GPS widgets on WHERE.com platform and I recently received a Nokia N95 GPS phone because of my finalist status with Game Park in NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge. Below are results of an automatic test script reporting once a minute on a 2/19/2008 walk about with dogs in LES Manhattan. While I am still mulling over these results, here are a few observations about what I think happened.
- ID 404 to 414 is an inaccurate initial reading, too many 5 story buildings around that somehow got cached in my widget script. I was just sending the N95 data, not reloading my widget page. I was getting nervous and reloaded my test widget.
- ID 415 onwards begins a fairly accurate presentation of my path.
-- Note it took me 7 long minutes in the cold to restart with a new GPS fix from a new location with ~130 degree view of the sky.
-- Note WHERE.com currently sets a two minute limit when reporting a new GPS location and my test script reports once a minute.

ID Latitude Longitude DTStamp
404 40.71666133 -73.99088102 2/19/08 11:19
405 40.71666133 -73.99088102 2/19/08 11:20
406 40.71666133 -73.99088102 2/19/08 11:21
407 40.71666133 -73.99088102 2/19/08 11:22
408 40.71666133 -73.99088102 2/19/08 11:23
409 40.71666133 -73.99088102 2/19/08 11:24
410 40.71666133 -73.99088102 2/19/08 11:25
411 40.71666133 -73.99088102 2/19/08 11:26
412 40.71666133 -73.99088102 2/19/08 11:27
413 40.71666133 -73.99088102 2/19/08 11:29
414 40.71666133 -73.99088102 2/19/08 11:30
415 40.71981695 -73.99262538 2/19/08 11:37
416 40.71981695 -73.99262538 2/19/08 11:38
417 40.71981695 -73.99262538 2/19/08 11:39
418 40.72050972 -73.99187738 2/19/08 11:40
419 40.72050972 -73.99187738 2/19/08 11:41
420 40.72168553 -73.99106693 2/19/08 11:42
421 40.72168553 -73.99106693 2/19/08 11:42
422 40.72269689 -73.99092369 2/19/08 11:44
423 40.72269689 -73.99092369 2/19/08 11:45
424 40.72333676 -73.99071816 2/19/08 11:47
425 40.72361152 -73.99054659 2/19/08 11:48
426 40.72361152 -73.99054659 2/19/08 11:49
427 40.72252171 -73.98870726 2/19/08 11:51
428 40.72207252 -73.98906031 2/19/08 11:53
429 40.72207252 -73.98906031 2/19/08 11:54
430 40.72100014 -73.98850366 2/19/08 11:55
431 40.72100014 -73.98850366 2/19/08 11:56
432 40.71921806 -73.98916785 2/19/08 11:57
433 40.71921806 -73.98916785 2/19/08 11:59
434 40.71892302 -73.98911412 2/19/08 12:00
435 40.71892302 -73.98911412 2/19/08 12:01
436 40.71711303 -73.98894229 2/19/08 12:02
428 40.72207252 -73.98906031 2/19/08 11:53
429 40.72207252 -73.98906031 2/19/08 11:54
430 40.72100014 -73.98850366 2/19/08 11:55
431 40.72100014 -73.98850366 2/19/08 11:56
432 40.71921806 -73.98916785 2/19/08 11:57
433 40.71921806 -73.98916785 2/19/08 11:59
434 40.71892302 -73.98911412 2/19/08 12:00
435 40.71892302 -73.98911412 2/19/08 12:01
436 40.71711303 -73.98894229 2/19/08 12:02