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On its developer blog, BlackBerry announced it has introduced a new feature that is capable of getting you a location fix in seconds using nearby cell tower information. The new Geolocation service is now part of the Locate Service. 

Users can be indoors with no GPS coverage, and apps will still be able to guide them to restaurants or points of interest around them. 

“Although the accuracy of the fixes obtained from the Geolocation service may not always be as high as with GPS, it has use cases for apps that require highly accurate GPS fixes as well as apps that do not. Apps that require high accuracy can use this service to quickly show the user an approximate location while it waits for a more accurate location fix using GPS. This can offer a huge user experience improvement. For applications that do not require high accuracy, this service can be leveraged as a simple yet effective mechanism to provide location information.”

These new features and capabilities are a great extension of all the work we did within the last year on our location-based services environment. 

The combination of the Locate and Maps Services opens the door to contextualized and location-aware applications that go above and beyond what is available today. 

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