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Re: How much of a difference will new ROMs make? Did Verizon cripple it?

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Originally Posted by braindoc View Post
In this case, the phone uses the providers cell phone towers to help triangulate your location thus making it easier for the GPS radio to locate you.
so in this case it's actually better than just using GPS alone (that is, more accurate than a standalone GPS receiver, w/ no cell phone in it, would be)? I always though that aGPS was a kind of "next best thing" for phones that didn't have a real GPS receiver. This has real GPS, which works when the cell phone isn't getting a signal, right?

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Mike
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