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| Thread ID: 125710 | 2012-07-14 04:33:00 | Car vs cellphone GPS | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1288432 | 2012-07-14 23:58:00 | I just had a look at YouTube re: Sygic, sounds nicer than Google. It has some nice adv features too. Features aside. To me, I think car units are less fuss, it just works b/c of the hardware. Even thou if you have all the apps still may need 3G to get a quicker startup and some places don't have cell towers. When maps are too expensive for overseas use, I'm going to look at bluetooth gps receivers that can be linked to it the phone like the Nokia cos no offline maps to buy and no 3G. Sygic might have the best deal for all countries it supplies at a price of 150 EURO I think. The others would just charge you $50-100 per country/region. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1288433 | 2012-07-15 01:06:00 | Sygic - sounds human-like when it comes to voice assist. I think a 7-day trial version is available on the Android market. | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 1288434 | 2012-07-15 05:52:00 | the other main advantage I see for phone based over car ones, is that phone based you can generally use a google search to get an address. Something not possible with a fixed database like in a car based system. For those you have to know the address. It's caught me out a couple of time when I knew the name of the place (for example the pines restaurant in wellington) but not the address. The phone found it via google maps, and via my navigation software (navquest) the car unit I had no idea and I didn't know the address. |
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| 1288435 | 2012-07-15 06:35:00 | Yeah that and I think street view is pretty good for someone who is totally new to the place and can use public transport apps and restaurant / hotel reviews and to book them. Comes at a cost though esp when abroad with 3G. Just hope the network doesn't go down :D | Nomad (952) | ||
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