Craig Pringle thinks he’s uncovered GPS hardware on the HTC Shift. This is an interesting development.

I started up the debugging tool.  There is a dropdown box with Com Ports listed.  By default it was on COM4.  I clicked on Open and low and behold I started seeing GPS strings in the output window.  I changed it to a different COM port and clicked open – and I got an error saying it could not find a GPS device.  Clearly the tool actually thinks there is a GPS in there.

I saw this tool and also saw the messages when I played with it but I was unable to get any ‘lock’ or 100% confirmation that the GPS hardware was actually working. The frustrating thing now is that I haven’t been able to use SnapVue since I trashed it and HTC haven’t been bale to get a fix to me yet. If I get SnapVue back before I have to send the device back, i’ll certainly investigate further on this.

Full post at Craig’s blog here.