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Re:On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Person... by catmanjan on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:16AM (#28084500)
The feature phones do have google maps, but from what I've read they all take some time to acquire a lock (could be a software issue?)
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Re:On Apple’s “Expanded Protections for Children” – A Person... by withinboredom on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:47AM (#28085414)
Probably hardware. GPS either requires a bootstrap starting point or it has to completely solve the equations to calculate the location (slow!).

Expensive phones triangulate via towers (fast!) and use that to bootstrap the GPS unit. Some GPS units don’t support that bootstrapping and are, thus, slower.

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