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Psycho Sonny said:
why is this? because the nexus 5 was also using cell towers to triangulate the location.
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I doubt that's the reason. More likely you were just getting a better location from the different GPS satellites available. From my experience, cell tower triangulation is not very accurate compared to Wi-Fi or GPS.

In rural areas: Cell tower (broad) + GPS (accurate)

In cities/indoors: Cell tower (broad) + Wi-Fi triangulation (accurate)

Should also note that GPS uses a lot more power I believe.
 
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anyone worried about the 3 to 5 week delay need not worry too much . mine's been shipped to parcel force .
ordered on the 9th, so not a long wait ,thought my ps4 was gonna come first lol
 
Psycho Sonny said:
say your driving down the motorway or a country road

is wifi useful in this scenario? no
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Someone has already pointed out the error of needing to be connected to WiFi, but I would just like to add, I think I spend probably 90% of my life in reach of a WiFi signal of some sort. Of course, this is different person to person, I live in London but someone that lives in the countryside will be much less.

Also, people really don't change internet all that often, or move house... Pick 10 people in your street, probably only 1 of them has been there/changed internet providers in less than a year.

I'm also fairly sure the phone picks one way of locating. If GPS is off, it will default to WiFi. If that's off, it will drop to cell towers. Why in this order? Because that's the order of accuracy.

I think A-GPS means it uses data/rough position to help understand what satellites it should be able to see in the area it's in, rather than actually using the cell towers to give a position. I could be wrong, but I think it's backed up by this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

Anyway, I'm not even too sure what we're arguing for now. Someone said you can't GPS lock in doors, you can.
 
Bossy papa said:
anyone worried about the 3 to 5 week delay need not worry too much . mine's been shipped to parcel force .
ordered on the 9th, so not a long wait ,thought my ps4 was gonna come first lol
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Ordered mine (Black 32GB) on 7th and its still being dispatched on 11/12/13! (Maybe that date is just a Google "joke" along the lines of bidding pi-million dollars for those patents a couple of year ago!)
 
Bossy papa said:
anyone worried about the 3 to 5 week delay need not worry too much . mine's been shipped to parcel force .
ordered on the 9th, so not a long wait ,thought my ps4 was gonna come first lol
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Which model did you order?
I ordered the 32gb black on the 11th and it still says 3/4weeks
 
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I know this was mentioned earlier in the thread but any suggestions for a good sms app? Fed up of hangouts converting my texts into mms when sending to more than 1 person.
 
Whats the crack with Google taking payment?

I ordered on the 11th and it said "Pending". That was with a 4/5week dispatch date. I noticed at the time of placing the order my credit card had put the £349.99 under "Pending Transactions" so money was set aside but i just checked via online banking today and now that money is no longer set aside to pay Google. The Order on Play Store still says "Pending" with the same dispatch date.
 
deshepherd said:
Ordered mine (Black 32GB) on 7th and its still being dispatched on 11/12/13! (Maybe that date is just a Google "joke" along the lines of bidding pi-million dollars for those patents a couple of year ago!)
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WooHoo! just looked at my Google Play account and it says its been shipped ... though status still says 3-4 weeks to dispatch and the ParcelForce tracking system doesn't recognize the tracking number it gives (my assumption is its just shipped and not got into the system)

So looks like it may be an early birthday present instead of a late one!
 
deshepherd said:
WooHoo! just looked at my Google Play account and it says its been shipped ... though status still says 3-4 weeks to dispatch and the ParcelForce tracking system doesn't recognize the tracking number it gives (my assumption is its just shipped and not got into the system)

So looks like it may be an early birthday present instead of a late one!
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Its definitely on the way ... Parcelforce now report it as being "accepted/collected from customer" and its at North London Depot. Note: this is a 32MB Black N5 ordered on Nov 7 which was scheduled for dispatch on Dec 11.
 
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