Comments on: Maybe it’s the chocolate chips. http://www.triaswemight.com/blog/2010/04/maybe-its-the-chocolate-chips/ At least one of us is crazy. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:23:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Colin http://www.triaswemight.com/blog/2010/04/maybe-its-the-chocolate-chips/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Colin Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:41:58 +0000 http://www.triaswemight.com/blog/?p=357#comment-257 I was going to make a snarky comment about how cell carriers don't have anything to do with GPS signals but then I checked Wikipedia, and I was wrong. Apparently even cell phones equipped with GPS (as opposed to AGPS, like the original iPhone) use cell towers to some extent. So if you're getting a weak or no signal, your GPS could be inaccurate. This could at least partially explain why Cyclemeter seems to be less reliable in the Mission, where AT&T just can not get their shit together. I was going to make a snarky comment about how cell carriers don’t have anything to do with GPS signals but then I checked Wikipedia, and I was wrong.

Apparently even cell phones equipped with GPS (as opposed to AGPS, like the original iPhone) use cell towers to some extent. So if you’re getting a weak or no signal, your GPS could be inaccurate. This could at least partially explain why Cyclemeter seems to be less reliable in the Mission, where AT&T just can not get their shit together.

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