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From: Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: GPS Requires Network??
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:59:34 +0200
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On 29/03/2011 12:03, bugbear allegedly wrote:
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> I wrote a simple test program to dump out info about all the
>> LocationProviders on my HTC Desire (Android 2.2) as per these calls
>> <http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/LocationProvider.html>.
>>
>>
>> For the GPS provider, requiresSatellite() returns true as you would
>> expect.
>> But so does requiresNetwork()!
>>
>> Why would GPS require a network connection?
>
> Why would comp.lang.java.programmer be the place to ask?

Buggered if I know why, but I can't help this feeling of uneasiness when 
I hear that Lawrence is doing things involving satellites.