Thread: Maps Booster for N900?
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Venomrush is offline Venomrush
2009-11-17 , 05:20
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Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
Its a sort of Assisted GPS, but uses WiFi instead of cellular towers, for a little background. I'm wondering how much better it is than normal GPS or A-GPS.
Watch this video, http://www.skyhookwireless.com/flash...howitworks.swf

It's basically similar to A-GPS, instead of using cellular networking to find position of the satellites for faster fix, it users Wifi to help find the position of the phone.
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