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Originally Posted by Malatesta
Cell phones don't have such an option, so it makes sense for a network to do so (and usually charge for the aGPS feature).
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My friend got a Samsung M500 phone through Sero from Sprint. He tells me he doesn't have to pay anything extra to run the Java version of Google Maps on his phone. The M500 from what I understand has A-GPS and I've seen him running Google Maps with tracking. It didn't really looking like Google Maps, but the little marker showed up and showed us precisely where we were and where we were going.
Like Malatesta made the distinction that A-GPS can actually be better than standalone GPS, carriers aren't going to just start offering a service like that for with no cost.
People have said this program,
http://www.navizon.com/ uses triangulation and wifi to give you a fairly accurate location. They say it even works for CDMA phones. I can see how the WIFI aspect works, but I wonder how they managed to do the triangulation thing.