Old 04-19-13 | 05:44 AM
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From: Far beyond the pale horizon.
Originally Posted by Juha
The "snapshot" can take several minutes. If you move for 15-20 minutes with the GPS turned off (this seems to be what you want), the receiver has to start searching for satellites again. That time can be reduced with wifi / GSM cell tower triangulation, not sure how much iPhone makes use of those.
The iPhone with these locates much faster than a GPS without them. They work fairly-well to locate even without a gps signal.

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