Thread: GPS on Eink device?
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Old 09-03-2021, 09:02 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Renate View Post
I've always thought that GPS on an Eink device would make a handy hiking map.

I actually retrofitted a B&N Glow3 with an internal GPS module, but the signal capture was so miserable it was hardly worth it.

I have a Poke3 now which has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 which has the GPS/GNSS receiver built in, but I don't think it has an antenna and the software doesn't seem to acknowledge that GPS exists.

I thought that the Xiaomi InkPalm 5 (smart phone format) was pretty cute, but I don't know if that has GPS either.

To be really useful the device should have a magnetometer for orientation.

Does anybody know of any GPS enabled devices?
Hisense A5 and the various other eInk smartphones.
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