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Re:Color, the new amazing mobile app that crashes your phone... by Goronmon on Thursday March 24, 2011 @02:39PM (#2365319)
Am I the only one who is annoyed at apps that require GPS to be enabled? I can deal with it for things like Navigation where I can plug my phone into my car to keep the battery up. But for general use, it just sucks up way too much battery and is easy to forget to turn off.

The result is that I just avoid apps that require it.

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Re:Color, the new amazing mobile app that crashes your phone... by Zev on Thursday March 24, 2011 @05:33PM (#2366090)
Location-based apps requiring GPS to work is a surprise to you?
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Re:Color, the new amazing mobile app that crashes your phone... by _stephan on Thursday March 24, 2011 @05:23PM (#2366037)
Does disabling GPS actually save power if no app is trying to use GPS? I thought the GPS receiver only draws power if an app is actually using it.
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