Tag Archives: Android

GPS accuracy on Android phones

Dr Mike Dodds from the OU’s Biology Department has been investigating the accuracy of GPS devices for ecology surveying and has helped us with testing the GPS accuracy of our phones. One of Mike’s approaches is to compare the accuracy … Continue reading

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GPS accuracy testing at 0 degrees East

…When East Isn’t East. Where better to test the accuracy and resoution of your GPS devices than the agreed ‘Prime Meridian of the World’ at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, where east meets west at zero degrees of longitude? I … Continue reading

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Improving GPS accuracy with EGNOS

One of the things we learned from our field trials this August was that the on-board GPS in our Android phones (HTC Desire, Nexus One) doesn’t resolve position as accurately as we’d like, often only achieving a 10m ‘accuracy’ (as … Continue reading

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Applications for Android

Here’s a quick review of the applications we’ve looked at for the Android phones for Out There In Here, now that the latest HTC Desire handsets have been delivered. Some of these applications may need downloading as .apk files and … Continue reading

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Location tracking with Big Brother GPS.

A slightly obscure Android application called Big Brother GPS allows us to track the location of a phone by displaying the output of the phone’s GPS receiver. A PHP script on a web server will display the location and show … Continue reading

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Testing services on site

During a visit to three potential field-trial sites on May 10th with our new geologist Dr.  Jill Eyres, we measured on-site 3G signal strength and tested available bandwidth. As we don’t want to reveal the location of these sites the … Continue reading

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Video Streaming with Bambuser, part 2

Live video over WiFi and HSDPA. Last Friday we tested several video streams from the Nexus One to the Open University using both WiFi and 3G/HSDPA. The streaming software Bambuser on the phone proved to be easy to use and … Continue reading

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Video streaming with Bambuser, part 1.

Site survey with Cell Mapper and Iperf. Tomorrow I plan to stream some video over both wifi and 3G/HSDPA links from the Nexus One to the Open University using Bambuser. Today I used Android software tools Cell Mapper and Iperf … Continue reading

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Nexus One: cool tools

The new handset has been very busy this week, and despite some connectivity problems is proving to have a ‘handy set’ of tools.

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Unboxing the Android

Yesterday was our first chance to try out the project’s new Android phone, the Google Nexus One. In the box is a phone handset and battery, with a 4GB micro-SDHC card for storage, a mains charger, audio headset, neoprene slip-case, … Continue reading

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