On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Valent Turkovic <valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for the best mobile phone for OpenStreetMap. > Which mobile phone do you think is better for OpenStreetMap? > > Things for consideration are: > - onboard GPS precision > - applications for GPS logging > - applications for POI collection > - battery life when mapping (how long can you map) > > Please share any experience that you have with any or even better if you > had experience with both of them. I only user iPhone for a short while, > and haven't even seen Android for real but I ran Android emulator via SDK > to get a feel for it. > > > Here are some of my thoughts... > > Android positive points: > - platform on the uptake, more apps coming every day > - nice POI collection app [1] > - runs multiple apps at once > - quite open platform > > Android negative points: > - less apps than iPhone, both for OSM and general > - not so good as multimedia player (video and audio podcasts) > - a bit bigger and heavier than iPhone > > > iPhone positive points: > - lots of apps, both for OSM and general [2] > - CloudMade MapZen POI collector supports for iPhone [3] > - multitouch interface > - great multimedia player (video and audio podcasts) > - nice deal for a 2 year T-Mobile contract > > iPhone negative points: > - runs only one app at once :( > - pretty closed platform :( > - quite expensive, no carrier in Croatia offers it in contract deals :( > > > [1] http://maps.bigtincan.com/btc-mapper.php > [2] http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/03/19/bring-cloudmade-maps-to-your- > iphone-application/ > [3] http://mapzen.cloudmade.com/mapzen-poi-collector
Hi Valent, as for myself I'm using Nokia E51 with gpsmid as my primary mapping software. Used to utilize TrekBuddy but now that I discovered beauty of vector maps and audio tagging I am using TB only when gpsmid has some real issues which leads us to its downsides. Dunno whether it's j2me implementation, hardware problem or problem with gpsmid but sometimes I have some hard time with it: bluetooth connection drops randomly (I'm using external bluetooth module), crash or freeze and I also ended up with a corrupted midlet once. But still.. I was unable to find anything better. Anyway your mileage may vary with a different phone (Sony Ericsson?). Hope it helps, joe _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
