gps accuracy civilian
How accurate is a phone with GPS?
I recently bought a new cell phone and it has a GPS navigation feature.
I havent activated it because i cant afford a lot of the costs things bring with them. I would have bought a cheaper phone but they didnt have a lot of options on cheap phones.
My question is,
Last time i ever heard, a civilian GPS system is around 3-10 feet accuracy
but how about a cell phone?
A GPS system in only as accurate as the signal it receives. So your phone GPS shouldn’t be any better or worse than any other GPS system. It’s receiving the same signal.
I don’t know how the phone GPS is configured but normally there is no extra cost for using a GPS receiver. The signals are free to receive from government satellites. The only costs should be for subscriptions to keep any maps in the GPS system up to date. If you don’t subscribe to this service there should be no charge to use GPS but check just to be sure.
