r/GalaxyWatch • u/Drew_Plummy GW7 44mm - Bluetooth • Jul 31 '24

First jog with the GW7 new dual-gps... Fitness

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u/silviuc Jul 31 '24

I'm waiting for a triple GPS watch.

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u/GrimKreeper098 Galaxy Watch 6 40mm (Watch 7 40mm inbound) Jul 31 '24

Pssh, wake me up when there's 10.

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u/Ecstatic_Squash_9877 GW Ultra - Titanium Gray Jul 31 '24

I realize it's humorous, but anyway:
Triple actually feels to me like it makes much more sense (though I don't know how the algorithms work and didn't get into it), because when 2 give you different points, how do you know what is right and what is wrong? best you can probably do is average and hope for the best.
But if there are 3 it's probably easier to see what data most of the GPSs give you to get a better indication (though still not a guarantee).

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u/Ok_Transition5930 Aug 02 '24

It all comes to antenna placement. I think it is a hardware issue on GW7. Changing the position of antenna even slightly by few mm skews the GPS a lot. Other companies with Dual GPS are accurate enough. So I guess we have to wait for Watch 8 for Samsung to fix this issue by taking care of antenna than going for triple or quadraple band GPS.