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Re:iPhone 5 by kaiuhl on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @06:01PM (#4513485)
You are misinformed. Assisted GPS is simply a feature that reduces the time-to-first-fix of GPS. Triangulation from cell towers exists, but nobody calls it A-GPS.

I've used the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, and 4S extensively in the wilderness. Every version since GPS was introduced has been "real" GPS.

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Re:iPhone 5 by mikeash on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @06:46PM (#4513676)
I'm not talking about cell tower triangulation, I'm talking about offloading computation to more capable hardware located remotely. It exists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS#Modes_of_operation

I can't find anything about chipsets that only do that, but I'd be surprised if nobody had ever done it.

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