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by eridius 3245 days ago
I forgot that iPod Touch didn't have Touch ID or 3D Touch. But does it really not have a GPS? That's interesting. I guess the assumption is you're not going to go out and about with Maps since you're tethered to a wifi network.
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Or the GPS was part of the GSM baseband, and they didn't want to stuff something else on there to replace it.
Yes. All iOS devices with the exception of the original iPhone are like this: they have a cellular baseband iff they have GPS.
No non-cellular Apple devices have GPS that I'm aware of. My wifi-only iPad Air certainly doesn't, but my mother's cellular iPad mini 4 does
Except Google Maps at least lets you download an area for offline use. Not sure what Apple maps does.

I use this all the time on my Android phone because I don't have a data plan for it.