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Originally Posted by Malatesta

It's kind of OT, but briefly:

AFLT (advanced forward link trilateration) aka cell tower ID, uses virtually no battery life and is safe to leave on in the background.

Using Google's Latitude service, you can constantly see where you friends are, roughly speaking (usually within a half mile). So you leave this on all the time and friends/family can see you on the map and vice-versa if they have it enabled.

It also grabs your location indoors, unlike GPS.

i fully understand. if you actually use gps its funny because then they can see exactly where you are but like you said that takes up battery power.

Originally Posted by SaltyDawg

The advantage is it's a whole lot faster.

It takes several minutes to get a GPS lock and get your location. If you are using tower location, it usually already has your location by the time the app opens.

this is something i didn't think of also. I did recognize those instant gps locks.