Right now I'm looking at the Nokia E71, with inbuilt GPS, on '3'; they have a nice offer at the moment - as well as a 15G mobile Internet dongle at £15 a month [less 25% if you are already a customer] nothing else on the High Street seems to come even close .. I've heard that '3' have a bad service record, but I've not had a problem with them (at least - not yet).
BTW, my lad tells me that the Nav4All tracking is done by the phone reporting its position to the base computer via the internet; he said that if you are not up / downloading much - and have a 1GB Internet contract with your GPS phone - the actual Internet usage is quite minimal. Its a rather roundabout way to track where you are but, apparently, it works :-) Trevor rb999sb wrote: > --- In [email protected], Glen Peckett <li...@...> wrote: > >> I currently have an HTC smartphone with built in GPS. Although I've bought >> TomTom for it for road use it wouldn't be much use for canals (and will be >> replaced anyway as they have stopped upgrading the maps). >> >> It does also have Google Maps installed though, which would work OK. The >> only thing is you need to try and get the relevant maps downloaded when on >> WiFi or be sure to have a sensible data contract . >> >> The ideal software is MemoryMap which gives full OS mapping - at a high cost. >> >> As to battery life - forget it! If running the GPS for long periods it needs >> to be plugged in to 12v. It would be fine for walking in to a village though. >> >> Glen >> >> > It looks as though you have a similar phone to me. Are you with Orange? I am > asking because I can't get orange webmail and I wonder if you have similar > problems. > Sue > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
