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Re:Hundreds of Devices Hidden Inside New York City Phone Booths by morpher on Monday October 06, 2014 @11:07AM (#8416248)
Friendly pedantic clarification: you get better location accuracy when WiFi is on by combining access point location databases with the GPS signal.
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Re:Hundreds of Devices Hidden Inside New York City Phone Booths by cbr on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @06:26PM (#8424346)
While I was using "GPS" as shorthand for "automatically determined location", technically doesn't the GPS receiver work better/faster when your phone already has a rough idea where you are?
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