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Chris David
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I'm driving a rental and tried our Apple maps instead of my Magellan portable. Based on all the bad press, I didn't have high hopes. In practice it was even worse than I was expecting. The voice is choppy and gives the instructions in an odd way, and the location of the hotel was wrong by miles.
Anyway, what apps do people like for iphone nav? Google maps? I don't mind paying for a good one if it means I can leave the Magellan at home.
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TonyEX
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Chris David wrote:
I'm driving a rental and tried our Apple maps instead of my Magellan portable. Based on all the bad press, I didn't have high hopes. In practice it was even worse than I was expecting. The voice is choppy and gives the instructions in an odd way, and the location of the hotel was wrong by miles.
Anyway, what apps do people like for iphone nav? Google maps? I don't mind paying for a good one if it means I can leave the Magellan at home.
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(1) I like the simplicity of my Honda Navi... easy to read. The latest versions have traffic and good rerouting algorithms.
(2) Shy of that, sorry, it's all Android. Google Traffic is easy to read and it's navigation is quite good. I'm currently running a Samsung Galazy SIII with 4.0... waiting for the update to 4.1.1. Even my old Motorola Droid with 2.3 worked very well.
I don't understand why people buy iPhones. Likely just the BS marketing. They dropped Google because it's their enemy and instead wrote their own traffic apps.. So typical of Apple, to run a completely closed shop and then to charge its customers through the nose.
Pay for it? Android Maps are FREE!
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Chris David
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TonyE wrote:
Chris David wrote:
I'm driving a rental and tried our Apple maps instead of my Magellan portable. Based on all the bad press, I didn't have high hopes. In practice it was even worse than I was expecting. The voice is choppy and gives the instructions in an odd way, and the location of the hotel was wrong by miles.
Anyway, what apps do people like for iphone nav? Google maps? I don't mind paying for a good one if it means I can leave the Magellan at home.
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(1) I like the simplicity of my Honda Navi... easy to read. The latest versions have traffic and good rerouting algorithms.
(2) Shy of that, sorry, it's all Android. Google Traffic is easy to read and it's navigation is quite good. I'm currently running a Samsung Galazy SIII with 4.0... waiting for the update to 4.1.1. Even my old Motorola Droid with 2.3 worked very well.
I don't understand why people buy iPhones. Likely just the BS marketing. They dropped Google because it's their enemy and instead wrote their own traffic apps.. So typical of Apple, to run a completely closed shop and then to charge its customers through the nose.
Pay for it? Android Maps are FREE!
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1) Yes, I agree the Honda navi is nice, but airlines are cracking down on bag weights and my Si weighs more than 50 pounds. I'm talking about a portable solution for when I rent a car.
2) I have an iPhone. Start your own thread if you feel to need to crap on iPhones.
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Colin
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Chris David wrote:
TonyE wrote:
Chris David wrote:
I'm driving a rental and tried our Apple maps instead of my Magellan portable. Based on all the bad press, I didn't have high hopes. In practice it was even worse than I was expecting. The voice is choppy and gives the instructions in an odd way, and the location of the hotel was wrong by miles.
Anyway, what apps do people like for iphone nav? Google maps? I don't mind paying for a good one if it means I can leave the Magellan at home.
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(1) I like the simplicity of my Honda Navi... easy to read. The latest versions have traffic and good rerouting algorithms.
(2) Shy of that, sorry, it's all Android. Google Traffic is easy to read and it's navigation is quite good. I'm currently running a Samsung Galazy SIII with 4.0... waiting for the update to 4.1.1. Even my old Motorola Droid with 2.3 worked very well.
I don't understand why people buy iPhones. Likely just the BS marketing. They dropped Google because it's their enemy and instead wrote their own traffic apps.. So typical of Apple, to run a completely closed shop and then to charge its customers through the nose.
Pay for it? Android Maps are FREE!
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1) Yes, I agree the Honda navi is nice, but airlines are cracking down on bag weights and my Si weighs more than 50 pounds. I'm talking about a portable solution for when I rent a car.
2) I have an iPhone. Start your own thread if you feel to need to crap on iPhones.
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Many like Waze or MotionX. Waze is used crowd sourced data for traffic etc and is free.
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gilbert
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I use Navigon on my iPhone and am very happy with it. You do need to dedicate some space for the maps.
Gilbert
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Chris David
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Wow, the reviews for Waze are awesome. I'm downloading it now.
Thanks
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TonyEX
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;-D
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auto_enthu
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I have a samsung galaxy note, which comes with google maps and navigation. The navigation is simply awesome, easy to use, easy to find places around while driving.
I used it many times over the last 1 year, and I don't have a single complaint.
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TonyEX
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auto_enthu wrote:
I have a samsung galaxy note, which comes with google maps and navigation. The navigation is simply awesome, easy to use, easy to find places around while driving.
I used it many times over the last 1 year, and I don't have a single complaint.
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Yes... Apple sees Google as the Enemy... but they know they can's sue Google because for Apple to claim that Google's use of Linux as foundation for Android will have them laughed out of court... after all, Apple does not own Linux, even if they have used Unix to base their Mac OS on.
Indeed, if Apple were to sue Google over Android they might be shooting themselves on the foot with Mac OS...
So, instead, Apple sues Google based vendors over such things as the shape of the tokens in the User Interface.
Apple: "Your car has four tires, we own that patent"
Clueless SJ housewifes in Jury: "They're right!"
Next step, Appeals Court: "Bullshit, that patent is illegal".
Sad to say, but Apple has become the "Bose" of the computer industry.
Intel, AMD, et. al. went at this years ago with REAL patents and eventually they had to cross-license and live with it. The end result is that the industry took off.
Google is doing this, sharing their stuff with everyone that wants it so the Android market is taking off.
Apple, OTOH, is the opposite. They want to control everything about the market and in doing so they limit themselves to a niche player. Sure, they may be first to roll out something but their "closed shop" mentality soon allows others to run rings around them.
See this:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57523913-37/apple-may-need-an-iphone-6-sooner-rather-than-later/
And of course, the iPhone5 is a bust when you compare it with Galaxy SIII, specially when 4.1.1 hits it.
Think, in two years, Android has gone from 2.2 to 4.1.1.... it just keeps building on the back of the availability of a huge number of Linux drivers, stacks and applications. Not to mention the huge amount of cheap development tools to do Droid apps.
And of course, you can become ROOT on a Droid phone. A used Android phone is still useful as a nice 802.11.ii device. I use my old Motorola Droid as a remote control for VLC.
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CarPhreakD
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Google maps on Android. It gets better every software update... and it's free.
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A77
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ditto google maps on android - super clear instructions and you can just plop the phone landscape in front of the info screen (in CRvs, civics, accords and TSXs anyway). Only snag is you have to keep gps off normally as it is a real battery killer. and when you switch it on it takes an age to determine location. My nexus does anyway.
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TonyEX
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A77 wrote:
ditto google maps on android - super clear instructions and you can just plop the phone landscape in front of the info screen (in CRvs, civics, accords and TSXs anyway). Only snag is you have to keep gps off normally as it is a real battery killer. and when you switch it on it takes an age to determine location. My nexus does anyway.
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Yes, I noted that my old Motorola would go down in battery even when I had it plugged into via USB into the cigarette lighter. GPS does suck power.
My Galaxy, however, does better.
When I go on long trips I use the Honda NAVI for the main drive and the Droid phone for setting up side trips, getting phone numbers, etc.... I also used it for traffic, but since the latest Honda NAVI includes traffic, it makes the Android less important so I can shut if off for some times.
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DCR
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TonyE wrote:
;-D
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My new wallpaper.
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GoFaster
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Waze is a free navigation for iPhone/iPad. It knows the times when you should go to the right and take the off ramps that connect with the on ramps, so you go right by the cars on the freeway. To me that is what separates the good from the great. The part that is just fantastic is all users can enter information, such as where they saw the police, so you can adjust your level of fun. Users can also input their speeds and traffic conditions. I think, not sure, it mostly judges traffic by how long it takes users to go between cell towers.
I really like it on the phone. I have built in Navigation in both cars now, so don't use it as much anymore, but it is superior to BMW and Honda because of the user inputs. Really great for S.Calif to Vegas roadtrips to get informed of where the highway patrol is hiding and also of accidents ahead.
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Chris David
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I tried Waze and really like it. I used it this morning on my way to work and it correctly identified the location of a speed trap.
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Colin
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Chris David wrote:
I tried Waze and really like it. I used it this morning on my way to work and it correctly identified the location of a speed trap.
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I'm glad that worked out well, I've recommended it to others and they have been equally pleased. Interestingly, I have no need for navigation where I live so I have never used it.
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