symbian-freak has uncovered a way to improve the N97’s GPS significantly – it involves adding a short piece of wire to the GPS module’s antenna (which is located in the back cover of the handset).
This increases the length of the antenna closer to the ideal length for GPS; and thus improves signal reception.
As the whole change could theoretically be accomplished via a new battery cover, I dare to bet that Nokia might eventually unleash a “second revision” of the battery cover which gets shipped with later production models (and gets sent to customers who complain about low accuracy). Of course, all of this is speculation for now – but there’s little to loose here as you can just purchase a second back cover before sending your handset to Nokia for warranty repairs!
The video below contains further information:





Recent N-Series devices have shipped with a pretty weird bardcode scanner in ROM. I always wondered what it does – and can now present a solution!



