Re:Your Cellphone Will Be a Satphone
by darkfirefly on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @01:49AM
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I often experience very slow time to fix with cell service off (& having location off beforehand) - I believe this is due to Assisted GNSS/GPS which significantly improves the time for GPS to start working (the associated Wikipedia article states that ~1 minute often without it, and worst case ~12.5 minutes)
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Re:Your Cellphone Will Be a Satphone
by roywiggins on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @12:44PM
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Yeah, assisted GPS is great. I remember ye olde GPS consumer receivers taking minutes at a time to find a location while modern phones are of course much better and a lot of it is down to having a network connection to help out. It got so much better so fast that it's easy to forget how janky it could be!