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| Posted by quake.shen Will you really use your expensive smartphone to navi? Hi fellows, I'm using Samsung note 2 to navi whatever I need. But for the heat, battery and precision issues, I bought another PND to navi. Is there any fellow has done such thing like me? |
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| Posted by sergey_beloklokov4 Smartphone gps I use it just when distance is short and data coverage is fair, but mostly as an addition to my regular GPS. |
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| Posted by kimo Phones can do it but they are a bit fragile I agree that my Note 2 is a bit fragile for tramping navigation, but I do use it to record my daily walk using Maverick app. It has a useful background map from Open Street Map that has all my local park tracks available and the maps are cached. So it works well offline. But for real navigation on a boat, a Garmin 78s is waterproof and has marine charts. I could load the charts, but operating the phone in a waterproof case might be a bit clumsy. |
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| Posted by GDT More... Some posts are not listed here. See all posts here: Will you really use your expensive smartphone to navi? GPS Data Team |
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| Posted by house4 Re: GPS phone
My iPhone bill in Europe was $800 for a couple weeks just chirping, some emails, few calls. Not worth it at all. |
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| Posted by johmazz2006 Re: GPS phone Just what I thought. Much better to get a dedicated GPS and only pay a single cost which is much less than $800 |
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| Posted by tboneandporcini Re: Will you really use your expensive smartphone to navi?
I am also using SGN2. It is free on the plan, bright and powerful enough, will be upgraded the next year for free... More importantly, the battery life with a custom ROM is quite good. Then one can have navigation, music, video registrator and Internet all in the same device and in any car you use. Well, it doesn't work in wet. So, use something else for boating or climbing. |
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