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GPS is pretty battery intensive. Your phone is already gathering a list of every SSID it touches every second. If Google can eliminate the need to use GPS to c
by legitster 5y ago
GPS is pretty battery intensive.
Your phone is already gathering a list of every SSID it touches every second. If Google can eliminate the need to use GPS to confirm that you are sitting at your desk, it can eliminate a bunch of needless GPS calculations.
- jtolmar 5y agoGPS itself doesn't use much battery at all, nor do the calculations that use it. GPS-enabled apps use a lot of battery because they have to constantly wake up the device and enable the antenna, but that hardly matters for a navigation app, which is already awake and scanning constantly. Most of the battery use on Google Maps nav comes from keeping the screen on, and re-drawing the map it shows. Source: I used to be the lead GPS engineer on this product.
- legitster 5y agoInteresting! But say if my wife and I have location sharing enabled, and it updates every several minutes, is there any difference in using SSIDs vs GPS?