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Originally Posted by blazingwolf

aGPS is a real GPS. See here: Assisted GPS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks for your Wikipedia link but I'm well aware of what aGPS is. I don't consider aGPS to be real GPS devices because when there is no cell signal most of them cannot acquire a fix, or they take so long as to be unusable. None of the phones with aGPS which I have played with work in my area, where half the time I have no cell signal. To quote the above Wiki article..."Some A-GPS devices cannot fall back to standard GPS, needing cell tower or internet signal as these A-GPS devices won't function with only GPS satellite signal." In my experience, it should say most aGPS devices cannot fall back to standard GPS.

There was a link in the above article which listed both the D2 and the X as aGPS units. Perhaps I should have asked; Has anyone verified whether their GPS chips work off of the cell grid? Thanks.