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Post: A gps enabled phone not as acurate as a dedicated GPS unit?

Ian Michael Gumby

A gps enabled phone not as acurate as a dedicated GPS unit? 

In Panic in smartphoneland

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LOL..

Guess again. Unless you're talking about a Trimble unit for survey work.

All the units are "accurate enough" depending on the number of satellites that they can receive and how good their math is. Usually within 1.5 to 3.0 meters.

The "google" OS is linux which happens to be the same OS used by Nokia's 810N.

(Albeit, its not a phone...)

So I don't think there's the panic .... yet....