Originally Posted by peterleinchen

Nope.
But also N9 does not have it in common-ca. Both have GeoTrust Global installed.
Output looks pretty similar on both devices (below from N900)

Code:

~#  openssl s_client -connect supl.google.com:7275
CONNECTED(00000003)
depth=2 /C=US/O=GeoTrust Inc./CN=GeoTrust Global CA
verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate
verify return:0
---
Certificate chain
 0 s:/C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc/CN=*.google.com
   i:/C=US/O=Google Inc/CN=Google Internet Authority G2
 1 s:/C=US/O=Google Inc/CN=Google Internet Authority G2
   i:/C=US/O=GeoTrust Inc./CN=GeoTrust Global CA
 2 s:/C=US/O=GeoTrust Inc./CN=GeoTrust Global CA
   i:/C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
---
Server certificate
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIHgzCCBmugAwIBAgIIOQH9s8eHezYwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEFBQAwSTELMAkGA1UE
BhMCVVMxEzARBgNVBAoTCkdvb2dsZSBJbmMxJTAjBgNVBAMTHEdvb2dsZSBJbnRl
cm5ldCBBdXRob3JpdHkgRzIwHhcNMTUwNDA4MTQxNjE3WhcNMTUwNzA3MDAwMDAw
WjBmMQswCQYDVQQGEwJVUzETMBEGA1UECAwKQ2FsaWZvcm5pYTEWMBQGA1UEBwwN
TW91bnRhaW4gVmlldzETMBEGA1UECgwKR29vZ2xlIEluYzEVMBMGA1UEAwwMKi5n
b29nbGUuY29tMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA0YXDdpu5
Gy+qZXYWVVlEabFybjJB5qPt4Sd7jt03ZTbGTjRK6oyLTMlHtQrjOYfbM/T5ErF3
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AQUFBwMCMIIDJgYDVR0RBIIDHTCCAxmCDCouZ29vZ2xlLmNvbYINKi5hbmRyb2lk
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b3W892OfD4E8Cm5naQYkDnDa1asnSTWPSm9bZrTen3P1Uga6eWuGq18hd8aw3QmM
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0bs7Lcd2gYmEO9lUmMD2Qbk7XTr9x8SsvFl+4kxetC9lNgEcifZrrzuXbm/9CP1t
XnODZt+19g==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
subject=/C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc/CN=*.google.com
issuer=/C=US/O=Google Inc/CN=Google Internet Authority G2
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 3999 bytes and written 435 bytes
---
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is RC4-SHA
Server public key is 2048 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1
    Cipher    : RC4-SHA
    Session-ID: A7E8414ECDB2BF239AF1352CB1E4C4B5B388FDFDBD00155956ABBE9F808F68FB
    Session-ID-ctx: 
    Master-Key: 520D6FBFCB6FC0E077B38F7FB8F9F3C79E9DE10DFB34643350565EE05429C7F185B005A59972C7C9F638317A2BA3133B
    Key-Arg   : None
    PSK identity: None
    PSK identity hint: None
    Start Time: 1429649116
    Timeout   : 300 (sec)
    Verify return code: 20 (unable to get local issuer certificate)

Certs was also my first thought. But iirc I could not spot it down to a missing cert.

--
just thinking loud:
ssl3 / tls (not enabled for supl requests)? Even we see good results with OpenSSL, could it be the location service uses only ssl3 where google switched supl to tls?