Yes quite right. Assisted GPS is the combination of a GPS unit, positioning form triangulation of cell-phone towers, and positioning using wifi hot spots.
There is one caveat, however, the Wifi only models of the iPad have no GPS unit and also cannot contact cell-phone towers. These Wifi only models can only use wifi triangulation to determine their position. This can be quite accurate on occasions but can have an inaccuracy of a kilometres on other occasions. Cheers, Carlo On 09/03/2012, at 12:23 , Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > The 4G models include GPS. The "assisted" part refers to the use of the cell > connection to make the localization quicker. However, access to a cell signal > is not required. The built in GPS will work on its own. > > It is unfortunate that Apple used the term "assisted GPS". It seems to > confuse a lot of people. > The iPad (1,2 and 3) have a FULLY FUNCTIONAL GPS, and it works extremely well! > > As stated above, the "assisted" part refers to it's ability to use the > cellular towers for a quicker initial fix, in some locations. > > The New iPad Specifications: > <http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 09/03/2012, at 11:41 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: > >> Good morning all! >> >> Can anyone tell me if any model of the new iPad actually has a GPS receiver >> installed or is it reliant on the mobile phone network? >> >> In iCloud Preferences (System) Find My Mac is greyed out and the "More" >> option says "Find My Mac requires a recovery partition". >> >> In my iCloud the iMac shows up as "Offline". The Mac Help system tells me >> what it does but not a clue on how to activate it. Any help will be >> appreciated. >> >> iMac 7" Intel OS X 10.7.3 >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Adrian >> >> adrianske...@me.com >> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
