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by londons_explore 830 days ago
If you have a USA phone, bear in mind most are sold with glonass and beidou and support disabled.

Buy a phone or GPS from elsewhere in the world and you'll get to use all the networks and get much better accuracy.

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Do you have a source on that? My understanding is that most consumer cellphone GNSS systems today are multi-constellation out of the box. If there is a satellite up there, the phone will use it, no matter which flag is painted on it.
EU phone, but yeah, good to point out GNSS isn't just GPS anymore. I also agree that the accuracy is insanely good most of the time; I'm just objecting the "accuracy test" using car turn-by-turn navigation :-)