Nokia Sports Tracker vs Android My Tracks

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  • jago25_98
    jago25_98 Posts: 5
    assisted GPS uses radio to make the positioning more accurate. On phones I think the phone signal itself is used to make it more accurate, so it's less accurate when out of signal
  • wesdev
    wesdev Posts: 104
    i got a Nokia E71 today, good choice??
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    jago25_98 wrote:
    assisted GPS uses radio to make the positioning more accurate. On phones I think the phone signal itself is used to make it more accurate, so it's less accurate when out of signal
    I believe one benefit is A-GPS uses the phone signal* to acquire the initial sat data quickly which reduces the time to get a good fix. I'm not sure but it might be able to use cell data for positioning too. Don't know. I think it's supposed to make positioning in cities with big buildings easier too.

    * - might use your phone's data connection, thus costs money, but not sure. I think if it's the case you can probably disable this and you get plain GPS rather than A-GPS.

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