Can a Prepay Cell Phone be used as a GPS

I don't know about all prepaid phones but Android and iPhone smart phones now all have integral GPS capability. Google Maps and National Forest Service interactive maps can show you where you are without an internet or phone connection. I have a demo Kyocera that my brother gave me to fly a toy drone. It's never had a phone plan but it tells me everywhere I am. I wish I'd have had that easy location access when I was doing field research back in the 80s and 90s but civilian GPS units were way too expensive for me to afford back then. I determined my location the old fashioned way, with map and compass and Geodetic Survey markers.

If you you have for instance Google maps and you download the map for an area when ONLINE
then you can access the map - OFFLINE and use the GPS
with the map
I do it regularly on my tablet, in the car with a dashmount and no internet connection
I also use a similar system on a larger tablet on my boat as a back up navigator but that is not Google maps, but marine charts

I am sure you can do the same on a smartphone
However it does require an inbuilt satellite GPS system

You would have to make due enquiry to see if your smartphone model has inbuilt GPS

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muckmail said:

but I
don't know if a smart phone that is not connected to a phone service or constant internet service can be used as as a GPS. Any answers on that?

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I thought that my collleague MPR had answered that

MPR said:

Android and iPhone smart phones now all have integral GPS capability. Google Maps and National Forest Service interactive maps can show you where you are without an internet or phone connection.

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Perhaps you did not fully read his reply