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Originally Posted by prophetwithadd
Lost my phone used Sprint locator to find long story short locator say it uses gps or agps w/e, so my question is how come a program like garmin mobile is not available i had it on my mm9000 worked good is there any reason that if they released it it wouldnt work
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very simple- the phone is transmitting information to Sprint's network, who determines your location based on the info it receives and using tower triangulation to supplement (notice that its accurate to something like 100 yards, not nearly as accurate as real GPS).
In other words, Sprint knows where you are, but the phone doesn't necessarily. This is not true GPS in which the phone would know its own location, therefore you can't really use it for much.