"Snapper" <snapper1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Trevor Wilson wrote...
>
>> **Get a GPS equipped 'phone on a plan. Stick it in a plastic bag.
>
> Why would you want to do that?
>
> GPS phones aren't that great. OK for hiking, perhaps like using a Garmin
> Etrex. But for car navigation you need something that can be easily
read,
> and heard, too. It needs to be able to be sat in a cradle. Do any GPS
> phones, such as the N95 do that?
>
> Also, these phones aren't cheap and their plans less so. The N95 for
> example, requires a subscription in order to download the maps as you
> travel, and they also ac***ulate data usage which you also have to pay
> for.
>
> Whereas a standalone TomTom will have the latest maps and it won't cost
> you any more in running costs. Sometimes they also have free updates.
>
>
not entirely correct, as previously stated further up the thread, my N80
has
Tomtom 6 for Symbian installed, it has maps for all of Australia already
built in and I just sit it in the car charger cradle and turn the volume
up,
and it is quite easily heard above the noises of my old rattle trap.
I bought the Phone new from EBay for about $350 as I needed a replacement
and bought the Tomtom software for it for $250 from the Tomtom web site
about 10 months ago. the reason I bought it was because it was cheaper to
do
that than buy a dedicated gps (still is and I already had a capable phone)
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