mobile phone sat nav - gps

[ACS]

I have a Nokia 6110 Navigator and as OP's have alluded to, it is great if you are lost, just to establish the way home but as a turn-by-turn device the battery life is the primary hinderance. Using the GPS I would estimate that the device would be good for 2.5 hours maximum.

 

[magnatom]

I have a Nokia 6110 Navigator and as OP's have alluded to, it is great if you are lost, just to establish the way home but as a turn-by-turn device the battery life is the primary hinderance. Using the GPS I would estimate that the device would be good for 2.5 hours maximum.

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I have the same. If it had a longer battery great, but not as it stands.

 

[Plax]

I have a Samsung Pixon M8800 which has google maps. It tells me where I am within an X radius and you can get directions on it. Does that mean I have a GPS phone?

 

[magnatom]

I have a Samsung Pixon M8800 which has google maps. It tells me where I am within an X radius and you can get directions on it. Does that mean I have a GPS phone?

No. It can use the timing of the mobile mast signals to give a rough approximation of where you are, not as accurate as GPS but usually good enough to tell you which town you are in.

 

[Plax]

No. It can use the timing of the mobile mast signals to give a rough approximation of where you are, not as accurate as GPS but usually good enough to tell you which town you are in.

Didn't think so. Fun though!

 

[andrew_s]

I also have an old Grey Scale Garmin Legend unit which has a very basic onboard map and no facility to improve the mapping. (Later, Colour, Legends do have a SD card for a map). This has only let me down when the batteries died but replacing the batteries sorted that one.

You can improve the mapping. You would need the DVD version of the maps rather than the SD card version, and a suitable data cable (they are serial, not USB). The maps have to go into the fairly small memory of the GPS, so you can only put a restricted area on at once (unlike SD where you can get the whole of europe).

 

[MrGrumpy]

I used Nokia sports tracker on 6220, worked quite well, however it really needs to be out in the open to get a signal thus not ideal.

 

[kyuss]

I used sportstracker properly for the first time yesterday. Nice to see the latest version now has the maps. It was fine with the slider closed and stuck in my bag and read the whole route perfectly even though the majority of it was under fairly heavy tree cover.