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Acer Iconia A500 GPS Issues – Active Antenna GPS390N

I reported in my last post of what I thought was a heat problem causing the GPS to stop finding any satellites. Well I opened up my Acer Iconia A500 and find that it is using an Active Antenna. What is that, well it means that the Antenna is external to the GPS chip and contains an Antenna (Aerial) and […] Read more »

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Inside the Acer Iconia A500 and the GPS Chip.

Just thought I would share with you a link to what’s inside the Acer Iconia A500. Bill Detwiler Head Technology editor of TechRepublic has done a marvellous job of opening up the A500 16GB Iconia Tablet and providing 68 images of his exploration. I was interested in where the GPS antenna was located. Image 25 shows the Antenna, a long […] Read more »