On 6/25/2011 5:28 PM, Jim Saklad wrote:
>> David Graham wrote:
>>> All
>>>
>>> IPads do not have a true GPS only aGPS. So having a iPad attached to your dashboard is just going get you a distracted driving ticket.
>>
>> I don't understand this statement that they "do not have a true GPS but only a GPS" -- what the heck does that mean?
>>
>> And I was under the impression, both from the advertisements as well as from discussions on this list and elsewhere on line that the iPads with 3G were true GPS units and got data from the GPS satellites just the same as dedicated GPS devices do. iPads with just wi-fi don't have true GPS capability, I understand that.
>>
>> Is this incorrect information?
>
> Although you have partly misinterpreted the other David's statement, the answer here is "yes, this is incorrect information."
>
> Wifi-only iPads have no GPS radio and do location services only on the basis of cell towers and Wifi hotspots.
>
> 3G iPads have full-fledged GPS radios and can do completely functional GPS geolocation.
>
Huh? That was what I said: " the iPads with 3G were true GPS units and
got data from the GPS satellites just the same as dedicated GPS devices
do" and I asked if that were incorrect information, and you just said
that was incorrect information and then said the same thing I said as if
it were correct. So how come it was incorrect information when I said
it and is correct when you say it? I don't understand.
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David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
