Well...son of a gun. Here I just upgraded to the iPhone 3GS...and this news breaks out. CSR has unveiled a new GPS architecture that it says will let portable devices be constantly location-aware without draining their batteries. It does this by using an "aware" state, which "keeps the necessary information to do a very fast calculation from the satellite [and is] alive all the time but in a very low micropower mode," he explained. This approach means the device's GPS does not need to be continually turned on and off to conserve power--hence the speed with which it can get a satellite fix. "The second thing we did is [to] put in a new technology which scans for all the noisy signals that interfere with GPS, and eliminates interferers before they can hit the GPS signal," Chadha said.
Well, looks like battery consumption won't be a problem for mobile devices and GPS's any longer, shame it came out so late in the game. But then again, this is new technology and only available in sample quantities for manufacturers, sooo, we probably won't have a working model in a phone for a couple of years. Just in time for me to upgrade to the next iPhone. Hehehe
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