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> Indeed, many smartphones and other consumer navigation systems sold in the United States today use data from both countries’ satellites. That was surprising
by cantrevealname 13y ago
> Indeed, many smartphones and other consumer navigation systems sold in the United States today use data from both countries’ satellites.
That was surprising news for me. I had no idea that other GPS-like systems had come so far. Wikipedia says,
"GPS and phone baseband chips from major vendors ST-Ericsson, Broadcom and Qualcomm all support GLONASS in combination with GPS. Smartphones and Tablets also saw implementation of GLONASS support in 2011 with devices released that year from Xiaomi Tech Company (Xiaomi Phone 2), Sony Ericsson, Samsung (the Google Nexus 10 in late 2012), Asus, Apple (iPhone 4S and iPad Mini in late 2012) and HTC adding support for the system."
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS
- dingaling 13y agoNo so much a case of having 'come so far' as 'bouncing back'; the first satellite in the GLONASS network was launched in 1982, after a decade of development. IoC was 1993. International access was offered in 1996, but this coincided with a decline in funding and waning of coverage. It took until 2011 to patch the gaps in the constellation.
- andrewaylett 13y agoMy understanding is that units that support any kind of satellite positioning system but that don't support GLONASS are subject to fairly hefty import tariffs in Russia. My S3 supports both the US and Russian systems, and is excellent at gaining a fix.