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| Thread ID: 106207 | 2009-12-30 23:25:00 | Anyone really used a cellphone GPS? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 844403 | 2009-12-31 22:25:00 | ... Pity it costs $100 a year to keep it going.... Holy F*ck! Why the hell would anyone pay that much when stand alone GPS navigators are less than $300? |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 844404 | 2009-12-31 23:42:00 | Use mine regularly, but get the $10 for 100MB a month (Voda) or $12 for 120MB (XT). Wouldn't be without it now :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 844405 | 2010-01-01 02:43:00 | Did you use mobile internet? Or were maps already downloaded? Is the HTC a true GPS or it also work with cellular towers? I was using mobile internet so the maps were downloading constantly. Its true GPS but it can also use Cellular towers if I turn off the GPS function. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 844406 | 2010-01-02 21:26:00 | Bit puzzled why anyone needs technical assistance to find their way in NZ. I mean its difficult to find anywhere as simple. OK for commercial travellers etc who constantly need to cross different cities each week but!! Save yourself money and buy a road map for towns and for inter town try using what is probably the only road available. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 844407 | 2010-01-02 21:36:00 | Highway is easy. But finding streets in night time is not easy and it saves time than to pull the car over each moment or so .... ie., going to the motel, finding a specific restaurant etc etc.... Using these in cities one have not really been to before. Maps are not cheap either, arn't they around $25 for each town .. or city..... does add up. 2008 Christmas we went and see a good couple of cities in the S Island. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 844408 | 2010-01-02 21:55:00 | Not to mention that it creates argument in the car :D We probably drove for 20mins trying to find Auckland bridge at the south end where people go fishing cos I wanted to take a photograph. Each time we tried it with maps, as the GPS went wonky, all we got was houses then we found the left exit just before the motorway.... Sometimes you follow the main road and you somehow bear left accidentally at night and find that you are now 2km off route and time to do a u turn. If it was so easy you wouldn't see people knocking on doors and asking passerbys for help. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 844409 | 2010-01-02 23:09:00 | Bit puzzled why anyone needs technical assistance to find their way in NZ. I mean its difficult to find anywhere as simple. OK for commercial travellers etc who constantly need to cross different cities each week but!! Save yourself money and buy a road map for towns and for inter town try using what is probably the only road available. Tom After a couple of trips with one, it seems about on a par with pneumatic tyres, a very handy upgrade. Also, it is a bit of a nuisance switching a paper map to a different language. The GPS flips happily in seconds. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 844410 | 2010-01-03 01:19:00 | Bit puzzled why anyone needs technical assistance to find their way in NZ. I mean its difficult to find anywhere as simple. OK for commercial travellers etc who constantly need to cross different cities each week but!! Save yourself money and buy a road map for towns and for inter town try using what is probably the only road available. Tom I find the gps a godsend for navigating streets in Auckland in the breakdown truck. **** maps, hard to read whilst driving and with my advanced years I need to put on reading glasses albeit warehouse ones. When they are on I cant see clearly driving. Street I want to go is always on the edge of the dumb map book, can find it but hard to visulize other streets and roads connecting to it. Lots of time say its gives grid reference on map page and buggered if I can find it sometimes. Bear in mind my state of panic at the time as the customer is ringing up every minute to see how far way you are. |
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