GPS Reliability Limitations
The cluster focuses on debates about GPS accuracy, availability (especially indoors or without line-of-sight), battery consumption, and comparisons to alternatives in smartphones and tracking devices.
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How about the GPS inside Android/iPhone?
Does this still work ok if GPS goes off?
gps can't do the things the guy above asked for
It's literally GPS (with the artificial receiver limits removed)
You can't generally rely on GPS signal being available.
You're forgetting that it had GPS!
Might as well use a standalone GPS device?
This could be very useful on a phone, which actually has a GPS.
Gizmodo says this uses GPS but there's no way that's accurate enough, is there?
Wouldn't GPS be far more accurate for this purpose?