@ericito ahhh this is great! Which hardware? It used to work in ... • Aaron Parecki

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Eric Ito https://twitter.com/ericito • Jun 7
As of at least iOS 8.3, GPS works when in Airplane Mode! Let's go hiking! No more signal searching induced battery drain #iOS #CoreLocation

@ericito ahhh this is great! Which hardware? It used to work in airplane mode on the iPhone 4 because it was a physically separate GPS chip. With the 4S they moved to a GPS chip that was part of the GSM chip, which is why airplane mode also disabled GPS. #iOS

Portland, Oregon, USA

Sun, Jun 7, 2015 9:57am -07:00 #iOS #corelocation

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- Aaron Parecki aaronparecki.com
  
  @diplix Sure enough! Works on my phone too! I wonder how they pulled that off.
  
  Mon, Jun 8, 2015 4:39pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- felix schwenzel wirres.net
  
  @aaronpk i found that out a couple of days ago, too. works on my iphone 5s and ios 8.3.
  
  Mon, Jun 8, 2015 11:02am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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