Q: Does iPad 2 WiFi Really Have No GPS???

You're replying to a post just one week short of a year old...  

I'm sure somebody mentioned the following in the last 224 posts spanning 51 weeks, but what the hey: 

Wifi only iPad 2 does not have GPS. Wifi+3G iPad 2 does have GPS.

Ok. But Is there any good gps apps for ipad 2 ?

ipad 2 gps apps

Thank u , put i guess i still have the same problem. See i have ipad 2 wi-fi +3G put once i turn off the wi-fi connection i can't use the GPS .

I bought it last week , I didn't use to it yet.

Neither wifi nor 3g are needed for the gps to work. Are you sure you have the right iPad?

And have you found the User Guide?

The User Guide is available at http://support.apple.com/manuals/ or downloadable from iTunes as an iBook.

Yes, I'm sure. And I looked in that user guide 4 days ago, put I couldn't find something to help.

Without a 3G or wifi connection to allow assisted GPS, an iPad 3G needs to be able to get a clear signal from the GPS satellites in low earth orbit.  Just like every other hand held GPS device, that typically means you need to be outside with a clear view of the sky overhead.  Standalone GPS devices almost never work indoors (unless righty by a large window with an unobstructed view outside) and often even have trouble outdoors in "urban canyons" like downtown NewYork City where the highrises close on either side of the street block satellite signals.

Tthank you so much for the info.

Sorry, GPS would never work if the satellites were in low earth orbit. LEO is about 1,900 km above the earth, just outside the drag of the earth's atmosphere. The Int'l Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope are in LEO. The US GPS satellites are in six orbits of 4 satellites each, about 19,000 km above the planet.

These satellites are not found in LEO, since they need to be line of site, and they would [be] obscured by the horizon far too often.  So these satellites are in a middle orbit known as medium-Earth orbit or MEO.  At this orbit of some 12,000 miles these satellites orbit every 12 hours on average.  Allowing for the bulk of the GPS constellation to in line of site for most of the earth they are designed to cover.

 

http://ngriffin360.hubpages.com/hub/Geosynchronous-Satellites-Low-Earth-Orbit-GP S

Why GPS on a WiFI ipad???

For location tagging photos?  Everyone seems to think GPS is only used for maps etc, but you might have a WiFi iPad and take a photo, would be nice to have the location that photo was taken at when you import it into iPhoto!

Yes dear.

Oh, sorry - slipped into standard response to wife mode there....

You have replied to a post made exactly one year and 5 days ago.

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Well, if ipad 2 dosen't have GPS that would be stupid !!! I have ipad 2 .

PLease pay attention to the conversation.

iPad 2 wifi only does not have GPS.

iPad 3 with 3G does have GPS.

Everything you say explains perfectly why you should buy an iPad which actually has GPS installed in it, but doesn't explain at all why the wifi-only iPad should come with GPS.

You might just as well insist that all cameras should be GPS-equipped for that same reason.

If I have a Mifi card with Verizon and an iPad Wifi with 3G do I still have to pay an additional amount to Verizon over and above the 50.00 a month for the Mifi card?