"Saab C900 Viggenist" <c900@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Trevor Wilson" <trevor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
>
>>"Snapper" <snapper1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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?
>
>>**My 6110 Navigator does all that. And more. I can choose male of female
>>voice for directions. The N95 is better still. Bigger screen.
Nonetheless,
>>for these 54 year old eyes, I can read the maps without my reading
>>gl*****.
>>Of course, the Tom Tom is better, but is not as ****table.
>
> Except the phones still have one significant failing when using the
other
> functions in that they're phones, so to actually use them for a call you
> generally can't look at the screen at the same time as talking on a call
> without extra devices to help.
>
hands free speaker phone.
> And before you mention it, phones with mp3 player capability are illegal
> to
> use with the music player going and 'bud' earphones in your ears when
> driving. 8-)
>
and just about every modern mobile phone I have seen now has speakers so
you
dont need to use earphones, the speakers on my N80 are loud enough to
drown
out general conversation if I turn them up. you also have to remember that
most sane people would peobably prefeer to use the in car radio/CD player
to
listen to music and quite a few of the newer ones have MP3 capability, I'm
looking at one to put in my daughters car that even hase USB in
capabilities
so she can just plug in a memory stick full of MP3's.
>>> 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.
>
>>**Bull****. Both Nokias come equipped with maps for all of Australia and
>>more (for free). My 6110 costs me $50.00/month with a **** load of
'phone
>>calls (over $200.00 worth).
>
> To which network(s) though? All, or just one of the big-three? How much
is
> the flag-fall per call? On short calls, that's just as expensive as the
> air-time charge and it's one of the key ways telco's make their profit
> flag-fall is a charge on top of air-time and applies for any 'answered'
> call, no matter how short. Could be 1 or 2 seconds, or very long, but
> flag-fall is still charged. It's quite a rort!
>
So how many of these things does your GPS do ??
> How much do you get charged to send text messages and to send multimedia
> messages? Remember the N series are still basically phones, so
regardless
> of
> what other fancy stuff they come with, at the end of the day they still
> require a telco to allow them to use their wireless network, or they're
> fairly useless.
>
why do you need a wireless network to use the GPS in a phone ??
My N80 doesnt require any subscription to enable a fully functional GPS to
work, and as a matter of fact it works fine even when I remove the sim
card
(I checked just a minute ago)
>>> 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.
>
I have the latest Tom tom maps on my phone, exactly the same ones that
come
with the current crop of dedicated Tom tom GPS devices sold all over
Australia, and the only time I have EVER seen a free map update form any
of
the manufacturers was when they were selling runout stock and the newer
devices had the new maps.
>>**My 'phone costs me nothing, except 'phone calls. Even better, I can
>>carry
>>it easily in my pocket, use it to make 'phone calls, listen to music,
look
>>up address details and a whole bunch of other stuff.
>
> How much music storage? multiple-GB? How many GB? A mobile phone is
still
> basically a talking device. Without a bluetooth headset or car kit you
> still
> can't talk at the same time as look things up on the phone.
>
my N80 quite happily accepts a 4 gig mini SD card, more than enough space
for music and I even have a couple of videos on there.
Speaker phone takes care of using the phone while driving and the GPS just
keeps running in the background.
> Craig.
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