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Samsung releases High Fidelity Position Compass and GLONASS application for its Windows Phone Mango handsets

Samsung releases High Fidelity Position Compass and GLONASS application for its Windows Phone Mango handsets

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Samsung has just released a new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango application named High Fidelity Position which is said to improve the user’s geo-location with the use of the device’s, Compass, Accelerometer and the Russian GLONASS satellite constellation (wonder how this works and if this means that future Samsung handsets will feature a GLONASS receiver). Once the application is installed it will modify the device’s setting screen and add a High Fidelity Position option at the bottom:

You will then have the choice to activate the compass/accelerometer feature and GLONASS option. The application can be found in the marketplace if you have a Samsung Focus or Samsung Omnia 7 running Mango. Just search for it (it’s not in the Samsung Zone).

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