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GPS com ports etc

2 replies · 1,964 views · Started 30 January 2008

Does anyone know the COM ports the N95 (and presumably other symbian GPS phones) use for the internal GPS?

Any other information related to this would be appriciated, thanks.

as discussed previously - the N95 does not have the notion of "com ports" for the GPS. GPS is accessed via an API level using libraries and drivers that talk directly to it. This means that you can have several different GPS apps running the same time (sharing and polling the GPS) rather than limited to one "port" like the Pocket PCs.

Nokia's dev site has got tons of info on it - and how to use it in their SDK C++ compilers and also in J2ME as well as Python. check it out..

Yes, just found that out from another very helpful source. While the APIs are a good way of going about it, its unfortunatly not helpful to what Im fiddling with. Unfortunatly Im not a programmer, but thanks for the tips about the dev site, might have a look in there.