Re: [OM] Another gadget obsoleted.

[piers@xxxxxxxx]

Assisted GPS gets the assistance from the mobile network. It knows to
which cellular tower the phone has connected, and of course knows the
position of the tower, and thus has a vastly simplified task of
locating the phone vis GPS.

Piers

On 1/2/13, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> CoPilot makes mincemeat of the
>> 4-5 year old Garmin GPS for time to acquire satellites.
>
> That's because the Garmin is downloading the Almanac from the
> satellites. CoPilot is getting it over the Internet.  My cell-phone
> takes just a few seconds to get an accurate position lock. This is
> called "Assisted GPS" or aGPS.
>
> AG
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