I was watching the keynote the other day and noticed that when Steve was talking about the GPS capabilities of the new iPhone he was mentioning cell towers and wifi. I went to the Apple site and noticed this:

The Podophile blog and Gizmodo seem to have cleared things up a little. iPhone 3G: What is A-GPS?
When I first saw the Assisted GPS thing, I assumed it was a cheaped out dumbed down version of GPS. Kind of like the “Server Grade” hard drive in the Time Capsule. Now that it’s been explained a bit more it sounds like a good thing. Time will tell I suppose.
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