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Really? you haven't had good luck with the Nexus One? It should perform fine as a GPS. Grab GPS Status and take a look at your accuracy and satellite reception and see if there's something going on. The iPhone has a notoriously horrendous GPS accuracy (No idea on the iPhone 4), but the Nexus One should be plenty. The one thing, I think, that these Android programs lack is some sort of smoothing algorithm. The arrow bounces around more than most handheld units, but, I'm not totally convinced that it's an accuracy issue. It appears as if, for example, Garmin smooths their arrows out a bit so It's not quite so confusing. Whenever I've been side by side with a Garmin unit, if I pay more attention to the distance rather than just blindly follow the arrow (like is so common among cachers), I end up in the same place, but my arrow spins around quite a bit more than the Garmin's arrow. While their's no doubt that all these phone's performance under tree's suffers, Their performance is absolutely enough to find a cache.

It's stupid... Let the develop talk to the database properly. It shouldn't be a difficult decision... The application is, no doubt, nicer than the official application is going to. There's no need to put effort into developing another application when there's one that works absolutely beautifully already.

Umm.... That doesn't really make sense. Antennas don't consume more or less power based on their effectiveness. A highly directional and efficient antenna will have great performance while a dummy load with the same input power won't work at all. Most handheld GPS receivers just have a simple patch antenna for reception. New smartphones (such as the Droid, Evo, Eris), have a "true" GPS receiver built in. They do not rely on the cell networks exclusively to determine location. They, generally, use the network to get a general idea of location then, if the user has the actual GPS receiver enabled, it switches to that for greater accuracy. All Android phones actually have a compass built in as well as it is a requirement by the operating system. All Android phones are very good caching devices. With the latest algorithms and WAAS, my Droid will take me, on a good day, to 5' or 6' accuracy. The key is to make sure you have the GPS radio turned on while you're caching (turn it off when you're not as it'll save your battery immensely). Make sure you have your GPS radio turned on. I think Sense UI includes a handy widget for you to do this from your homescreen. Turn the GPS radio on when you're geocaching, then turn it off when you're not. If you don't have the GPS radio on, the phone tries to determine your location via fancy systems using the cell tower locations. While those work for determining what town you're in, they won't help you find a geocache in the woods.

Sorry to ask in your thread, but I can't even find the upload button. Where is this upload button? I feel ridiculous not being able to find it. Sorry to be a bit off topic. Thanks EDIT: Found it. That was dumb...