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Rauha	2011-06-21 , 08:49
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Originally Posted by geohsia

A-GPS usually means cell-tower only. The N900 has GPS and uses A-GPS to get a faster lock.

From the specs the N9 ONLY has A-GPS. If I don't have a local SIM card (which means I can not talk to local towers) I don't know how A-GPS would work.

A-GPS= regular GPS + cell tower triangulation.

There is no way to have A-GPS only. All A-GPS hardware can do basic GPS as well. It's just slower to get the initial lock in. You are propably confusing this with phones that require data connection because they don't have GPS mapping data stored on the phone, and require data connection for constant map streaming.

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