AirLocation Sends GPS Data From iPhone to iPad
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Share your iPhone’s GPS radio with the Wi-Fi iPad
AirLocation is an iOS app that sends GPS data from your iPhone to your Wi-Fi-only iPad. To use it, you activate the Personal Hotspot on the iPhone, connect the iPad to the hotspot and run the app on both devices. Now you can use proper, accurate GPS data to track yourself on the iPad’s large screen. It won’t let you use any arbitrary iPad app with GPS, but once the iPad knows where it is you can flip to, say, Foursquare to check in.
It’s certainly a great idea, as using maps on the iPad is way nicer than peeking at the iPhone’s small screen. And currently it’s the only way I know of to actually send proper GPS data between the devices. some of you may remember a video back in March which tried to show that the iPhone shared its location with an iPad. I was skeptical at the time and rightly so — it turned out to be bunk, with the iPad happily finding itself using Wi-Fi triangulation alone.
I’ll be sticking with my current combo of 3G iPad and crappy, Samsung Beyoncé cellphone, but for those of you convinced about the joys of tethering a Wi-Fi iPad, this app costs a single, solitary buck.
Air Location product page [010 Dev]
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