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So, presumably if I bought one of their phones and turned it on, I would wait ten minutes to get a GPS fix instead of it using a almanac and working out the lat and long of three cell towers at certain signal strength?

Does anyone know if it's possible to get at this info from user side ? Some API access? sounds fun

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You don't even need the cell towers. You need _very_ good gps reception though, so outside without tall structures nearby. Then you have the issue that you need to keep the GPS active enough to keep the almanac updated. Which is usually not happening due to power management.

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