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Old 12-29-2009
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Originally Posted by brak View Post
Actually, according to Wikipedia (and what I seem to recall from elsewhere) "The iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS employ A-GPS". That's not quite a true GPS, though it's not triangulation either. However, A-GPS does not work if the phone is not talking to a tower (in fact, it needs to talk to a properly equipped/connected tower).
Re the platform I am using (HTC Eris):

HTC Droid Eris | Android Devices

This site claims there is a built-in GPS (other devices profiled on this site claim GPS/aGPS)
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