Re: Recommend an in-car GPS

"Horry" <horacewachope@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:59:25 +0000, Atheist Chaplain wrote:
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>> "Trevor Wilson" <trevor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> "Wolfy 'Dial-up' Wildeblood" <wolfgangwildeblood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> Last time I was driving around in SA, I took a wrong turn-off and
>>>>>> added over 100 km to my trip. Sucks d00d. I figure I could do with 
>>>>>> one
>>>>>> of them GPS thingies before I go back there again. (Those SAians 
>>>>>> could
>>>>>> learn a bit about sign-posting, too.) Anyone care to recommend a
GPS?
>>>>>
>>>>> **Nokia 6110 Navigator. Makes a nice 'phone, half decent camera,
music
>>>>> player, address book, etc, etc. Get it for free on a $49.00 cap from
a
>>>>> bunch of places. Carry it in your pocket, for bushwalking, etc. All 
>>>>> the
>>>>> roads in Australia (and a few other places) are on-board. Free
access 
>>>>> to
>>>>> the GPS satellites.
>>>>
>>>> you know that the access to the GPS sattelites has been free since
they
>>>> were put up there ??
>>>
>>> **Indeed. However, since I've owned the 6110, 90% of people ask if it
is
>>> free to use the GPS functions, since there is a charge to use the 
>>> EXTENDED
>>> GPS functions, which include the cellular location capabilities. I 
>>> wanted
>>> to ensure that this would not have to be addressed. Hence I mentioned
it
>>> up front. Clearly, that was a wasted effort.
>>>
>>> Trevor Wilson
>>>
>> Ahhh I see, I have the N80 with TomTom software installed and no one
has
>> ever asked me is it cost to use the GPS. so your original point makes 
>> sense
>> :-)
>
> Trevor's clearly lying, anyway.  In his original review, he said "best
of
> all, no bastard knows you have one".  Now he reckons "90% of people ask
if
> it is free to use the GPS functions".

******ing idiot. They ask when I haul it out to use it. Sheesh! Not so
much 
now, of course, but when I first took delivery of it, it was a very new 
model. WFT are you smoking? You looking for an argument, or are you just a

moron?

>
> I suppose Trevor expects us all to believe that people just randomly
> come up to him to ask him about the Nokia 6110's GPS functions, without
> knowing he owns one.  Unless he happens to work in a mobile phone shop,
> that's fairly unlikely isn't it?
>
> Don't you think?

**I sure do, but you don't.

Trevor Wilson