Well if it keeps me from asking directions, where do I buy one!?! Mason Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My family and I were at Stone Harbor, NJ this week, and my wife got hit with a putt-putt golf club. She needed stitches, or so I suspected. I opened the phone, went to maps and looked up Stone Harbor. Once that came up(seconds), I searched for Hospital. In a few seconds I had a map with the hospitals. It saved us time: a) finding out where they were and b) getting directions.
The maps provided on the phone will also show traffic conditions by clicking on a little car on the bottom right-hand corner of the map. I think it is very well done and will put a lot of Garmins in the discount bins when they add GPS. Mason Tom Piwowar wrote: >> How much can you do with an interface limited by the physical size of >> a cell phone? Even if you were using voice recognition, you would need >> privacy (and probably a place to sit) why is this any different from >> laptops. And why would you say that smart phones are driving web-apps? >> > > I think Apple's "calamari" demo is a good case. Google maps are great, > but are not available at the location where they would have the most > value. I tried pre-loading maps into my Palm, but that was not > particularly convenient -- printing out was far more useful. But then > before leaving on a trip I would spend an hour printing maps of the route > and enlargements of the tricky parts. Even then we got lost more than > once and my printed maps were useless. On the road I had no access to > directions "on demand." The "calamari" demo shows maps as they ought to > be. > > Maps can't be the only service of this type that woule be useful. > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ > ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
