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This is a messy post as I can't figure out a decent way of formatting this many pictures in these shapes and with the text I'm about to write...

I previously gave the Nokia N95 8GB's built-in GPS a bit of a hard time.  In New York, even in areas with few, if any, tall buildings it was an almost impossible task to get a fix.  The phone just didn't seem up to it.  I figured this was because I wasn't able to use A-GPS (for fear of expensive data costs) and the location of the receiver on the phone (it's obscured if the slider covers the keypad.

My Holux Bluetooth GPS worked great though - so I just used that instead.  For the last couple of days I couldn't use it though as it was, like my Eee and my glasses, M.I.A.!  Not to worry, I knew where I was going by then and didn't have the crazy mish mash of streets in Lower Manhattan to worry about any more.

Enough of the waffle, here's the goods...

The N95 8GB getting a fix at nearly 600 miles per hour through a cabin window on a Delta Airlines jet flying between New York's Kennedy and London's Gatwick!  Yeah it took a while to get a fix and yeah it kept losing it but hats off to the little box of wonders.  My old Bluetooth GPS unit couldn't get a fix unless stationary.  Walk at an average pace of between 2-3 mph and it just wouldn't lock on.  At nearly 600 mph it'd stand no chance.

It would've been great to have merged the last three pictures into one.  Or, even better, having the option in Google Earth to open more than one info bubble at a time but, well, there you go!