You are new to smartphones and certainly to using gps on smartphones. Many of us here are not.
Your apoligia for the problems Epic has with GPS followed your comment on its size is strange. If its music player would not play stereo would you come onto a forum and say "well for its size it does good"? The simple fact is that all the other competing smartphone devices do much better with GPS.
And you seem not to udnersand that accurcy in tests we are conduction and how useless your anecdotes are.
against other smartphones Epic does miserably especially on Signal to noise, it does point to problems when mounted on a dash in a car, when combined with clouds, foliage, or driving in a city along higher buildings.
In side by side testing with touch pro 2 and treo pro the SNR on Epic is on average HALF. This points to real problems in REAL world use. It means in marginal conditions other smartphoens will do much much better and the Epic is more likely to give a positon 100' off than the competion
Seriously please don't just post anecdotes and say accurate to 100 feet or 30' is good for everyone since it is good for you, when smarpthones for the same or less price and with the same features do much much better on GPS.
if the 4g Epic antenna were half as receptive as the Evo, meaning many people would do fine under perfect conditions but under imperfect conditions or simply more distance, most would get half the download speed of Evo, would you say, "wow, think about the size and what they packed in," in a tread discussing the issue?