Mobile Phone GPS

[darkfibre72]

Im due for a mobile phone upgrade in a couple of weeks and I'm looking of either getting a SE W995 or Samsung Jet. Both of these phones have GPS inbuilt. Does anybody mount thier phone on their bike so they can use it as a GPS unit ?

 

[jasonmccullum]

i use mu iphone with mapmyride. i put it in my back pocket and listen to the read out in through my headphones

 

[Garz]

I use my HTC magic in my saddle bag, it logs my route collecting all the basic data.

 

[rh100]

I tried using a SE X1 pda type phone, I found it unreliable and a battery killer. Got rid of it, am going to test tommorow a combination of IPAQ pda and a bluetooth gps receiver.

Things to think of - what do you want the gps for? just to find out where you are or to plan and log your routes and speeds? Are the applications available for the OS that is on the phone? It would be interesting to see what other people on here use and how reliable they find it.

 

[Downward]

I have a C905 with map my ride. It didn't work too well and would keep losing the signal.

 

[darkfibre72]

I want to use the GPS (on the phone) to log my routes and speed.. not to sure if thier is such an app for the Sony or Samsung ?

 

[Garz]

Might be an obvious tip, but anyway on the longer rides I take an 'emergency phone charger' (bought from maplins) that connects via a single AA battery. This extends the use enough for me to complete a 100 miler (6 hours+ gps use).

 

[Downward]

I want to use the GPS (on the phone) to log my routes and speed.. not to sure if thier is such an app for the Sony or Samsung ?

The Sony comes with one as standard.

I gave up though (Battery life isn't good) and just bought a dedicated GPS tracker..

 

[Garz]

I want to use the GPS (on the phone) to log my routes and speed.. not to sure if thier is such an app for the Sony or Samsung ?

Maybe sportypal can be used on said phone?

 

[rh100]

GPS bluetooth receivers are quite cheap on ebay aswell. But you might need to be happy pairing them up to phones etc to get it to work.

Not sure about the phones you mention, but my X1 was windows mobile, crap as a phone interface at the moment (until mobile 7 gets released) but is ok as a PDA operating system, there seems to be a few apps out there for this platform, but have just really started to look into different options/apps.

I beleive iPhone has several app's available - i think has built in gps aswell but no idea how it performs - someone else here might know.

The other phone platform is Google's Android, but again you'd have to research what is available

A lot of phone's have a specific OS to that phone or range of phone's, eg my Sony k800 i s very limited for addon's.

the more generic the OS - windows mobile - iphone - android etc the more choice of software you get

 

[fossyant]

My android phone is good - does the business, but I carry it in a back pocket and in a plastic bag.....

 

[anweledig]

I use a samsung omnia with an extended battery which gives me about 5 hours before recharge. I also registered at reperion.com (free) so my phone records position direction and speed for analysis at home as well as realtime display on the monitor at home so my wife can see where I am and when I'm likely to be home It also stops her worrying when I'm out training on dark wet winter nights in the local lanes

 

[greekokiril]

I'm using sportypal also, now i read that they released a new version for iPhone, has anyone tried this on iphone?

 

[l4dva]

I have just recently been upgraded to the new sony ericsson satio phone

Does any one know if it will be possible to track my rides with this phone? Or what apps I need to do it?
Thanks

 

[Norm]

Apparently, it has GPS and Java so you should be able to get GPSed working on it.

No ideas how, though. Head to www.gpsed.com and you might get more info there.