We removed the geolocation-based GPS assistance. That was necessary in terms of a very broken implementation and also licensing issues. So now all phones rely solely on GPS, which, when cold-started, can take a while to get a fix.
We know this was not optimal, but sometimes you need to break things to get them right. We hope to come back with an assisted solution soon to get faster location updates.
Android does have a lot of assistances around GPS, and also the GPS is turned on more or less all of the time, so it takes only seconds. But this involves more battery usage, and also we do not want to use GPS when its not needed.
