How does google map work on a non gps phone ?

August 27, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments
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Doom S asked:


How does google map show almost accurately your location and position even if you do not have a gps enabled phone ?

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2 Responses to “How does google map work on a non gps phone ?”
  1. D says:
    August 29, 2010 at 10:18 pm

    u will need internet on your phone of course and like on a pc it’s just recognizing your ip and all that stuff… isn’t that accurately but at least you will know in which part of town you are D

  2. Pfo says:
    August 31, 2010 at 4:02 am

    The phone communicates to cell towers, if it can find 3 towers in range it can tell the distance from each tower and if it knows the location of each tower, the phone can “figure out” where it is. It triangulates its position based on the strength of the cell tower signals. Pfo

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