BrentC
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So how does your tablet know its location? Is it seeing the GPSr in the cellphone?
So how does your tablet know its location? Is
Okay let me clear up the confusion. Samsung US tablet uses "A-GPS" (Assisted Global Positioning System), while it's similar it's not GPS hardware. Not sure about versions in other parts of the world but if its WIFI I'm betting it's A-GPS. As I said earlier, it gets the information from the satellites by using network resources, your internet connection and it's triangulation of cell towers. If your tablet has a simm card and an account with a carrier then its showing the tablet location courtesy of A-GPS, if not then its showing the location of the portal you're connected to. Here's a link to the difference A-GPS vs GPS - Difference and Comparison | Diffen. If you go to Samsung tech support they will tell you you have to be connected to the internet. I just verified this by disconnecting from the wifi on my Samsung tablet and trying Google maps app, it will load the last known information, but will not update anything on location.
Sorry, was looking on the move and missed what you said about US Samsung tablets. Is that really the case? I didn't think they would be different than other countries especially Canada