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About LinkBacksSpotted it yesterday - its about 5 miles from me - huge queues outside too. Once the hype has died down I must take a look and see how it compares with the US stores.
Spotted it yesterday - its about 5 miles from me - huge queues outside too. Once the hype has died down I must take a look and see how it compares with the US stores.
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Got someone next to me in my office right now, who bought a non-3G iPad yesterday. It know where we are, so I have to assume that there's some kind on GPS functionality there.Originally Posted by mikerr
The 3G version has "proper GPS" just like an iPhone 3G has proper GPS.
AGPS is *in addition* to GPS , that's why its called "assisted"
The non-3G version has no GPS at all.
Guys: Just because you don't perceive a value in it for yourself, it doesn't mean that others are wrong to do so for themselves. While this product, like all others from Apple these days, is overpriced (especially for 3G) and absurdly overhyped, it does not necessarily mean that it is also a pile of crap. Try to be balanced critics and give some credit as well; it's a new product and it's social and technological significance is far from established at this early stage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless
[qupte]At the Macworld Conference & Expo in January 2008, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that both the iPhone and iPod Touch will use Skyhook's WPS as the primary location engine for Google Maps and other applications. Skyhook WPS is also available on the Apple iPad, launched in March 2010.[/qupte]
It's using known wireless networks in your area (whether is it connected to them or not) to estimate it's position. This is not GPS. GPS uses satellites to triangulate it's location anywhere in the world, that's why it's called Global Poitioning System. A non-3G iPad will not know where it is if it can't find any networks, a 3G one will find it's position anywhere in the world.
Oh and this technology freaked out a friend of mine when he got an iPod TouchHe didn't know they had integrated this software into the Touch and he couldn't understand how it knew where he was. It's normally him that tells me about things like this.
There's actually 4 different types of A-GPS, which I previously hadn't appreciated. One is as I described and uses the GPS location of the cellular towers together with triangulation of multiple towers to provide a location.The 3G version has "proper GPS" just like an iPhone 3G has proper GPS.
AGPS is *in addition* to GPS , that's why its called "assisted"
The non-3G version has no GPS at all.
Other, seemingly newer definitions are as you've described. This is the problem when these terms are not industry standards.
Next time however, try not using thesmiley.... It seems rather condescending.
Ben
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Don't forget to go to your local Maplin Electronics store. It has HDMI leads from £9.95. Sells iPod and computer stuff too.
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