Location detection techniques used in mobile devices
The rapid development of the technology has driven the world into an information era, where people are empowered with accurate, reliable data within nanoseconds, regardless of the location they exist. While desktop machines, laptops and such devices allow the users easily access the internet with big screens, longer battery life and satisfactory amount of input choices, mobile devices also play a major role even with slow connectivity and many other less satisfactory features. It can be clearly seen that nowadays, the world is highly demanding for geographical information and applications based on geo data. Going beyond the scope, such information has run into presenting location based advertisements and providing customized location based social networking capabilities. The accuracy and reliability of the geographical information should be highly considered even though the tolerance of the inaccuracy may vary based on the application they are used in. Especially users such a