Supervising Manager of the Department of Redundancy Department
What is the location of the address of your bureau's office?
I would like to hand deliver personally a C.V. with a resume outlining my vast experience in the field of Repetitive-Redundancy.
I currently at this time hold the job position of Subordinate-Assistant Adjunct Apprentice to the Principal Director of Head Executive Governance.
Feel free at your liberty to call me by telephone so we may speak of this matter directly at length in person between us.
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Un petit d'un petit
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Telenav set on turn icons only will download the entire route initially so if you go out of range it doesn't matter turn to turn still works. I've been using it that way since 08 with around 10 destinations a day with no problems
Ah, yes. I remember this app. The process of creating and saving the maps was very long and tedious.
As a long time MGMAPS user, I must agree this was a long tedious time to get this set up right, but in the end, it has been well worth it. I use it when I am riding dirt bikes and such in the back trails and areas where I am miles from anything and it works great. I originally set it up on an old Nokia phone I had and loved it. I had downloaded maps of half of my state where I would be riding and then moved that over through 3 different blackberry's and never had to download any more maps. I still use this in conjuction with a regular GPS. The regular GPS is great for giving you directions, but since I ride motorcycles and like to explore, sometimes I just want a map and not directions. This is where MGMAPS works great! It is completely free, just keep in mind there was some issues with Google maps, so if you have something like google latitude on your phone, MGMAPS will not work with it. Other than that, I love it and hate the fact that it's not being updated any more.
Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, none of the major players (Garmin, TomTom, Navigon, CoPilot, etc.) have/are developing nav programs for BlackBerry. Although they are available for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7. Not sure if this is a licencing issue with RIM or a technical issue. I tried Telenav a while back when it was available from Rogers but this is a "data download as required" service. It did work well though and having a 6GB data plan allowed it to work for me.
Rather than buying a dedicated GPS unit, do yourself a favour and purchase a cheap, used Android phone or iPhone. Once you have this, simply download CoPilot on to your device. For about $35 you get one of the best navigation programs for North America and free map updates.
Now, rather than just having a dedicated GPS which will most likely cost more anyway, you also have wifi, media player, games, etc. There is no need for a SIM card or contract because you will use it for everything but your phone calls, text, emails, etc.
I have Copilot on my iPhone 3GS, Android Galaxy S and on my Android Galaxy 7" Tab. Of course it shines on my tablet with the 7" screen and car mount. I use the smaller ones when traveling by plane.
Current Package: 4 Smart Phones with Talk, Text & Data,
Samsung Galaxy Tab, Rocket Stick, Home Internet,
Home Phone (3 lines), 2 x HD PVR and HD Cable Package.
Avg. Monthly Bill: $600 CAD
Agreed, but I was being a little more realistic in my thinking. If you have done any research on what you are getting for $50, I don't think most people that will rely on them for frequent use would choose this option. The majority of half-decent units run about $179-299.
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I got my wide-screen TomTom for $150 over a year ago. It comes with lifetime map & traffic updates, as well as IQ routes. I'm sure you could get something similar for <$150 now.
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Originally Posted by efparri
All GPS devices perform the same basic functions regardless of price. The difference between a $100 device and a $200 device is $100.
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The difference is the amount of extra features that come with some of the higher end devices. They don't all come with Bluetooth, map updates, traffic updates etc...but if you don't need all that, then I agree that the cheaper model will perform just as well.
If you got traffic updates with the phone, you would need activation and a data plan. The low end Magellan and Garmin models receive traffic updates over the FM Radio Data Service at no extra cost. We were comparing using a GPS device versus using an unactivated phone with a GPS software add-on. We were not comparing the various GPS devices to each other. My contention was that a stand alone GPS device would match an unactivated phone at a lower cost.
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