[AusNOG] Conroy censoring dissent?

[Jasper Bryant-Greene]

On 12/11/2008, at 5:19 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> Many A-GPS phones, especially earlier models in the US, use a form  
> of A-GPS called Mobile Station Assisted (MS-Assisted), where the  
> "network" carries out the calculations to determine actual  
> location.  This works well for the E911 system as most phones will  
> only ever need to make a very small number, if any, of GPS lookups  
> in their lifetime and thus there's a saving on the in-phone CPU  
> requirements.  Of course, Moore's law makes that less of an issue  
> every day...


Yeah, I wouldn't really call the above A-GPS (although I do recall  
seeing some marketing material for a phone, a few years back, which  
worked as you describe above but claimed to have A-GPS). I can't find  
any authoritative definition of A-GPS, so I guess the marketers can  
claim whatever they want. Wikipedia doesn't mention MS-Assisted on its  
page for A-GPS, for what it's worth. Maybe it should :)

Are there any phones still being sold new with MS-Assisted GPS? If  
there are, do said phones claim to have A-GPS?

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