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Does the fact that there's no GPS on the phone imply that it doesn't know where you are? If so, how does it know where the closest seafood restaurant is, as demonstrated by Jobs?

It has to have some form of location finder, either an onboard GPS, or cell tower triangulation -- I believe that US Law requires it for E911. Kinda weird that they don't take advantage of it for Google Maps (?).


In the hardware teardowns, no GPS chips have been found, so it is using triangulation for E911. As for Jobs demo, it looks like he already had the area up he wanted to search, so the map program just searched near the viewable area, just like how on maps.google.com you can first type in a city to go there, then search for something with a second search. If I force quit the maps program on the phone, and relaunch, it goes right back to the last location I looked up, so I can't comment on how it acted by default.