Choosing a GPS help.

[smokeonthewater]

yeah.............. uh...... I have a new one of those now..... I was using mine on dad's bass boat testing the new motor...... I bumped it with my hand and it popped off the mount and went in the drink... I tried to grab it and actually touched it in the water and then it, along with 8 years of saved addresses, was gone

[SkunkBoat]

Originally Posted by smokeonthewater

yeah.............. uh...... I have a new one of those now..... I was using mine on dad's bass boat testing the new motor...... I bumped it with my hand and it popped off the mount and went in the drink... I tried to grab it and actually touched it in the water and then it, along with 8 years of saved addresses, was gone

see my prevoius post...."designed to be mounted in a boat"

[Kracker Jack]

I just downloaded Navionics USA ON MY HTC EVO!!! Just to have it, what a kick a$$ download!!!! To bad cell service sucks 20 miles off the beach. My cell download is almost as on the albemarlegood as the gps on the albemarle!

[reelapeelin]

You guys are sayin' the iphone's chart downloads won't work out of cell service...RATS!!...1st I've heard that, but I don't understand it...it's GPS generated data overlayed data from the Nav...where does the cell signal come into play??......not disputing it, just don't understand it...

[smokeonthewater]

I don't understand it either and I'm NOT absolutely certain, but my iphone has a gps speedometer app and it won't work without cell service.

[Kracker Jack]

from what i ve read so far small devices wont work out of cell service because we depend on cellservice to provide location on the device but other larger devices have built in gps recievers so REEL you might get"REEL" lucky and your ipad tablet may have a reciver built in!!!

[RWilson2526]

As long as we are on the subject of the wonders of smart phones has anyone used the traffic layer on google maps??.....if you are using google maps for navigation you can turn on a traffic layer.....i always thought it was based upon current reports or what have you which i assumed would be terribley inaccurate.....On our last trip to NC during the summer we turned it on and could see every slow down on I-95 as we traveled ....It was UNBIELAVABLY accurate.....I did a search on how it was done and apparently everyone on the highway at the time using google maps is sending their location and speed back to google....they take that information to show graphically where the slow downs are..... it didnt help you go any faster but it was nice to know things were going to speed up around the next bend.

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by Kracker Jack

from what i ve read so far small devices wont work out of cell service because we depend on cellservice to provide location on the device but other larger devices have built in gps recievers so REEL you might get"REEL" lucky and your ipad tablet may have a reciver built in!!!

Mine's an IPHONE w/a Navionics download...we were WAY up the Tugaloo River yesterday and that's about as hillbilly country as it sounds!!...lol!!...it was showin' the chart and icon following the river along w/lat/long changes as running just like I was uptown or something...showing SOG matching the boat's GPS exactly the whole time...I'll let ya know if I find out different, but I no think this thing requires cell sig for GPS function...will find out fo sho next time offshore...