I think you'll find both Apple and now Samsung has followed suit to disable the GPS unless you have a cell plan even though the tablets and phones do have a GPS on board. However, if you are using a GPS receiver such as a Bad Elf, Stratux ADS-B in, Stratus ADS-B, Echo UAT, or a host of other receivers, your GPS disabled tablet or phone can use the GPS on board the receiver via the wifi connection.
One note on the on board GPS receiver built into the ADS-B receiver units. These are not necessarily the high resolution WA GPS as is found on the ADS-B Out or the Bad Elf GPS units. I find the receiver on the Stratux units in particular tend to make occasional large corrections and errors in flight that I don't see when I use a higher quality GPS. That's typically not a problem unless you have an Autopilot slaved to the GPS. Then you may find yourself making some unexpected and odd course corrections.
-Jeff Scott
Arkansas Ozarks
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