And in addition to what Eugene said, GLONASS is required for all phones sold within the Russian federation.
Some China-made phones now support China's SatNav system, Beidou, in addition to GPS and GLONASS On Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 14:53 Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote: > GPS is the American system while GLONASS is the Russian system. Also, > Galileo is the EU system. > > GLONASS and Galileo were developed so that Russia and the EU do not have > to depend on the American system. GPS, after all, is a technology developed > originally for military purposes. > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Jim Morgan <j...@datalude.com> wrote: > >> Just saw a phone advertised with GPS and A-GLONASS, so I looked it up. >> >> I know the current GPS system is old and up for retirement at some point. >> Maybe this is the replacement? >> >> https://beebom.com/what-is-glonass-and-how-it-is-different-from-gps/ >> >> Oh, apparently iPhones already use as a GPS+GLONASS combination. Never >> knew ... >> >> Jim >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk-ph mailing list >> talk-ph@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > -- /Erwin Olario e: er...@ngnuity.xyz | v/m: https://t.me/GOwin | s: https://mstdn.io/@GOwin
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