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- 09-26-2008, 04:13 AM #1drishaqGuest
…GPS navigation devices are becoming increasingly popular because they
are constantly expanding their range of uses...
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- 09-27-2008, 10:05 AM #2selenaGuest
Re: Get The Facts About The GPS Device
drishaq;422458 Wrote:
> …GPS navigation devices are becoming increasingly popular because
> they
> are constantly expanding their range of uses...
> http://gadgetreviews.co.cc/Get_The_F...GPS_Device.htm
That is right that GPS devices are becoming more popular today.
Nowadays with the great technology GPS device can be installed in
Laptops and cars.
Anyways, Thanks for the nice information.
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selena
- 09-27-2008, 01:42 PM #3AZ NomadGuest
Re: Get The Facts About The GPS Device
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:03:01 -0600, Roger 2008 <[email protected]> wrote:
>"selena" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>> That is right that GPS devices are becoming more popular today.
>> Nowadays with the great technology GPS device can be installed in
>> Laptops and cars.
>> Anyways, Thanks for the nice information.
>If you use the Mogul from Sprint it has GPS built into it.
I prefer having a device with maps stored locally. It sucks trying to
find a place that is on the fringe of celular service and having the
map service get disconnected.
Right now I'm using tomtom navigator 6 which stores the maps I need in about a
gig of space. I have that and a small music/audiobook library on an 8 GB
micro-sdhc card half the size of a postage stamp.
- 09-27-2008, 02:03 PM #4Roger 2008Guest
Re: Get The Facts About The GPS Device
"selena" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> That is right that GPS devices are becoming more popular today.
> Nowadays with the great technology GPS device can be installed in
> Laptops and cars.
> Anyways, Thanks for the nice information.
If you use the Mogul from Sprint it has GPS built into it.
If you use a Touch you can add a GPS with this:
http://www8.garmin.com/mobile/smartphones/
- 09-27-2008, 05:03 PM #5DutchGuest
Re: Get The Facts About The GPS Device
AZ Nomad wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:03:01 -0600, Roger 2008 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>"selena" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>> That is right that GPS devices are becoming more popular today.
>>> Nowadays with the great technology GPS device can be installed in
>>> Laptops and cars.
>>> Anyways, Thanks for the nice information.
>
>>If you use the Mogul from Sprint it has GPS built into it.
>
> I prefer having a device with maps stored locally. It sucks trying to
> find a place that is on the fringe of celular service and having the
> map service get disconnected.
>
> Right now I'm using tomtom navigator 6 which stores the maps I need in about a
> gig of space. I have that and a small music/audiobook library on an 8 GB
> micro-sdhc card half the size of a postage stamp.
"Mobile GMaps is a FREE application that displays maps from Yahoo! Maps,
Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth), Ask.com, Open Street Map and
other sources on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other
devices. MGMaps can connect to a GPS receiver over bluetooth or use
internal GPS features on some phones in order to automatically display
the map for your current position. You can pre-download maps and store
them on your memory card in order to use them on the go without
accessing the internet."
http://www.mgmaps.com
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Dutch
Sprint/Motorola RAZR V3m
tethered to PCLinuxOS 2008
- 09-28-2008, 10:33 AM #6AZ NomadGuest
Re: Get The Facts About The GPS Device
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:15:01 -0500, Joel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have no idea what you mean by locally and remotely map, when the
>cellphone company may just charge you for the service (just like DATA, Text
>Message, Picture etc..) else you just install any map (few years ago Google
>even gave free map to some GPS which I installed on my Samsung 900A but
>never used) which you work similar to your Tomtom. And if the GPS software
>is for Cellphone then it usually much smaller than regular GPS device, and
>many newer Garmin GPS may eat up to almost 2GB (the TOPO map may eat up to
>around 4-5GB).
Locally means that the maps are stored on the actual phone and available when
you're outside of phone service.
When you use the software that sprint provides on the Mogul, you are relying
on an active connection to servers at sprint. Lose your connection and
you're **** out of luck.
- 10-05-2008, 08:11 PM #7Roger 2008Guest
Re: Get The Facts About The GPS Device
"AZ Nomad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:03:01 -0600, Roger 2008 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >"selena" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >>
> >> That is right that GPS devices are becoming more popular today.
> >> Nowadays with the great technology GPS device can be installed in
> >> Laptops and cars.
> >> Anyways, Thanks for the nice information.
>
> >If you use the Mogul from Sprint it has GPS built into it.
>
> I prefer having a device with maps stored locally. It sucks trying to
> find a place that is on the fringe of celular service and having the
> map service get disconnected.
Yes, I like having the maps on my Mogul too especially when I know I'll be
in areas where there will be little or no coverage.
The link I posted earlier goes to a Garmin device that would do what you
want it to do:
http://www8.garmin.com/mobile/smartphones/
> Right now I'm using tomtom navigator 6 which stores the maps I need in
about a
> gig of space. I have that and a small music/audiobook library on an 8 GB
> micro-sdhc card half the size of a postage stamp.
I've never tried an 8 GB on my Mogul yet but a 4 GB worked fine. But I've
heard this too. If I got the Garmin the works with the internal GPS then it
limits me to a 2 GB card and I didn't like that.
- 10-05-2008, 08:13 PM #8AZ NomadGuest
Re: Get The Facts About The GPS Device
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 20:11:52 -0600, Roger 2008 <[email protected]> wrote:
>"AZ Nomad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:03:01 -0600, Roger 2008 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >"selena" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> >news:[email protected]...
>> >>
>> >> That is right that GPS devices are becoming more popular today.
>> >> Nowadays with the great technology GPS device can be installed in
>> >> Laptops and cars.
>> >> Anyways, Thanks for the nice information.
>>
>> >If you use the Mogul from Sprint it has GPS built into it.
>>
>> I prefer having a device with maps stored locally. It sucks trying to
>> find a place that is on the fringe of celular service and having the
>> map service get disconnected.
>Yes, I like having the maps on my Mogul too especially when I know I'll be
>in areas where there will be little or no coverage.
>The link I posted earlier goes to a Garmin device that would do what you
>want it to do:
>http://www8.garmin.com/mobile/smartphones/
Garmin's antipiracy tactics put them out of consideration. For my
phone, I would not be able to install the software onto a nice 8GB
card. I'd have to use their ****ty little 2GB card and swap it out
every time I wanted to switch between GPS and storing my own files.
- 10-07-2008, 09:11 PM #9AZ NomadGuest
Re: Get The Facts About The GPS Device
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:28:54 -0500, Joel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, if you leave the **** out then you may be able to figure thing out.
>There is no such thing of local or remote map, because technology isn't that
>good as you think it is.
are you really this dense? Local is stored on your device. Remote
isn't.
If you are relying on a server to send you maps and lose contact, you no
longer have a functioning GPS device.
<plonk>
- 10-07-2008, 10:50 PM #10Todd AllcockGuest
Re: Get The Facts About The GPS Device
At 07 Oct 2008 21:32:27 -0500 Joel wrote:
> > >The link I posted earlier goes to a Garmin device that would do what
you
> > >want it to do:
> > >http://www8.garmin.com/mobile/smartphones/
> >
> > Garmin's antipiracy tactics put them out of consideration. For my
> > phone, I would not be able to install the software onto a nice 8GB
> > card. I'd have to use their ****ty little 2GB card and swap it out
> > every time I wanted to switch between GPS and storing my own files.
>
> Way way too much **** when what we really need is some brain. I don't
> know what your problem is, but I have Nuvi 680 and it works fine with
SDHS
> 8GB.
While we're telling others to look for brains, we might might want to
actually _read_ what others wrote...
Your Nuvi is a dedicated GPS/Nav device. AZ was talking about a Garmin
_software_ product that runs on GPS-enabled smartphones. To prevent
piracy, they pre-install the maps on an included 2GB microSD card, which
requires you to remove whatever card you normally use, and insert their map
card.
If like me, and apparently AZ, you normally schlep a bunch of data (media
files, documents, etc.) on your microSD, swapping a map-only card into the
phone to use it as a nav device sucks. On a long car trip, I typically run
my GPS software while simultaneously listening to music or audiobooks from
my phone. With the Garmin software product, that isn't possible.
> I don't use more than one map, I ordered the 8GB because it's too cheap
> these days (and even cheaper now), and I installed 2 other maps to the
> external memory and everything works fine.
Sure, if you own a separate GPS unit like you do. One of the benefits of
traveling with a GPS-enabled smartphone is NOT having to lug around a Nuvi.
My phone is not just my phone, but my "iPod", my GPS, my Kindle, my PSP,
my laptop, etc.
- 10-10-2008, 09:36 AM #11AZ NomadGuest
Re: Get The Facts About The GPS Device
On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:35:20 -0500, Joel <[email protected]> wrote:
>AZ Nomad <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:28:54 -0500, Joel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Well, if you leave the **** out then you may be able to figure thing out.
>> >There is no such thing of local or remote map, because technology isn't that
>> >good as you think it is.
>>
>> are you really this dense? Local is stored on your device. Remote
>> isn't.
>>
>> If you are relying on a server to send you maps and lose contact, you no
>> longer have a functioning GPS device.
> Well, you have too much **** in your brain to forget to quote what you
>need to quote. As I mention if you need the service then you will have to
You're the idiot with a subsecond attention span and that isn't my
problem.
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