wifi iPad not worth it
Apr 5, 2010 gps navigation, ipad
Wired had a short review about the wifi only iPad and they seem to think settling down for the cheaper iPad is not even worth it.
Article says Maps app is one of the “wow” apps and without the A-GPS feature brought along with the 3G module it is not as useful.
It also suggests the iPad can be used an in-vehicle GPS navigation device provided there’s a passenger to actually hold it and type in the address :) We actually lolled at this.
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April 6th, 2010 at 11:54 am
It is possible to achieve a GPS position fix with a WiFi iPad. I don’t mean SkyHook/WiFi positioning. I mean GPS positioning.
April 6th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
How is that possible?
April 7th, 2010 at 10:03 am
I was like 99% sure that my iPhone was somehow transmitting its GPS positioning to the iPad, but today I did a test to make sure. It turns out I was wrong. I must have been getting some weak WiFi positioning even though I thought there weren’t any WiFi routers around. Today I made sure there couldn’t be any other WiFi sources around, and it failed. So I’m sorry if I got anyone’s hopes up. I thought I had eliminated extraneous variables but I had not.
As a side note, it should still be possible to get GPS location using third-party hardware, like how the iPod touch can use the GPS car docks.
April 17th, 2010 at 7:33 am
iPad is really not reliable when it comes to GPS positioning. It’s going to be difficult.
April 23rd, 2010 at 1:24 pm
This is interesting, please Keep it coming