On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:13 AM, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom was talking old touch, not iphones. >
No the question Tom answered was- "What is a real gps? I am assuming you mean the iPhone doesn't have one?" Why is the name cheese would anyone associate a wifi only device with GPS using cell phone towers? The iPod touch uses known locations of wifi hotspots. It is an urban only GPS. > > On Oct 28, 2009 8:09 AM, "John Duncan Yoyo" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:22 AM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 27, > 2009, at 10:55 PM, mike w... > This might be a change on the newer models but Apple now uses the GPS > satellites. > > According to Apple the iPhone 3GS uses Sattelites, Cell Towers and Wi-Fi > locations to give location information for the GPS. > <http://www.apple.com/lae/iphone/features/gps.html> > > A known fixed point in addition to the satellites can give better > information than the Satellites alone.. > -- > John Duncan Yoyo > -------------------------------o) > > ************************************************************************* > ** > List info, subscript... > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
