iPhone and its GPS

@Rouxenator

Apple are an awesome company. The point of a company is to make money, not to be your friend. Yes they do try keep their customers happy because you will be a source of marketing for them and they can buy back later once impressed, but at the end of it all they only want your money and honestly dont really care what you think. They have managed to make their products over hyped and over priced and all this means is just more money for them. Truth is, their handheld products are the ****. There aren't any mp3/mp4 players that can compare to an ipod and their leap to the cellphone market has been a little shaky at times but all in all their really doing well. People like nokia have been doing it for years where as apple have just launched their iphone world wide a few months ago. And once u have added a few sweet ass applications to it you pretty much have the best smart phone money can buy. Could you do this -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3MfQIswl3k with any other smart phone???
 
Apple is an arrogant company and so are their users. They did one thing right with the iPhone and that is showcase the possibilities of what is possible for a user interface on a mobile device. It got other makers to pay attention. The Nokia 5800 is a fine example of how a long term maker in the mobile arena has learnt from apple.

Apart from the revolutionary user interface the iphone is pretty much outclassed by other phone.

Oh, the iPod is a very locked down and restricted music player - it is by far not the best music player on the market.
 
seems like this post has gone extremely off topic.
Lets get over the Apple-bashing.

I've got the iPhone 3G and let me tell you, the GPS works really really fast. It locks in on my position in under 5seconds. This is absolutely brilliant compared to my previous Nokia N98 8Gb, which I would be lucky if it ever managed to get its little sensitive head around finding where I bloody was.

And again to restate what some have said, A-GPS has NOTHING to do with triangulating information from cell towers and wifi hotspots. A-GPS sends the satellite position information to your phone so that it doesn't need to calculate it itself (which would take locking onto several satellites), this takes time, thus A-GPS being faster than plain old GPS.

I really hope some kind of GPS app comes out soon....
 
e.cachucho said:
I really hope some kind of GPS app comes out soon....
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If you were using a proper phone with a proper operating system then you would not have that problem. Both Nokia and Samsung phones running on Symbian come with Nokia Maps and you can load Garmin and many other GPS software onto them, including Google Maps.
 
Rouxenator said:
If you were using a proper phone with a proper operating system then you would not have that problem. Both Nokia and Samsung phones running on Symbian come with Nokia Maps and you can load Garmin and many other GPS software onto them, including Google Maps.
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Im sure it will come eventualy.
I wouldnt be caught dead with either a Nokia and especially not a Samsung.

1: Symbian on Nokia sucks, its like Windows 95
2: My experience with Nokia GPS phones has been absolutely infuriating.
3: Most programs for your "proper operating system", Symbian, are absolute rubbish. And then just trying to find them is like walking through a minefield.

iPhone > OSX > Apps > App store> Customer Satisfaction
Nokia> Symbian > random dodgy sites > possibly unsafe > dubious software > customer blah
99.99999999999% of Nokia owners dont ever bother trying to download apps for their "proper operating system piece of rubbish". Whereas almost all iPhone users try it out, because its just so easy and there is just so much out there.

I'll be the first to admit it when something that can actually compete with the iphone comes out. And until the Google G1 comes out, there is nothing even close. Not 200 light years close.
 
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e.cachucho said:
Im sure it will come eventualy.
I wouldnt be caught dead with either a Nokia and especially not a Samsung.

1: Symbian on Nokia sucks, its like Windows 95
2: My experience with Nokia GPS phones has been absolutely infuriating.
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That is good for you, perhaps you should use a Motorola or Bird or Haier. That is more your type. Maybe even a DECT phone will do.

1) There is one similarity between Symbian and Windows 95, that is multitasking. Come to think of it copy and paste also - that makes two. Although Symbian is doing a better job on multitasking. That actually brings me to the similarities between DOS and the iPhone.... but lets not go there right now.

2) Maybe you are so lost that no GPS would ever help ? :p
 
dudleygb said:
Blackberry still reigns :)
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Yeah, my grandpa used to tell me about those. They come for a place called "america" and they have screens with sixty five thousand colors. That almost the same age ad my old pops coincidentally :p.

Yeah, those blackberries are tasty, a good alternative to litchis or perhaps even apples.

But why are we talking produce in a mobile phone forum again ?
 
Rouxenator said:
That is good for you, perhaps you should use a Motorola or Bird or Haier. That is more your type. Maybe even a DECT phone will do.

1) There is one similarity between Symbian and Windows 95, that is multitasking. Come to think of it copy and paste also - that makes two. Although Symbian is doing a better job on multitasking. That actually brings me to the similarities between DOS and the iPhone.... but lets not go there right now.

2) Maybe you are so lost that no GPS would ever help ? :p
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Jesus christ!
I was actually pondering that the other day. Have I ever wanted to copy and paste something on my iPhone, no. Ok fair enough only had it for two weeks.
But then I though; did I ever copy and paste with my Nokia N95 8gb? Nope, not ever, never ever once, it never even crossed my mind not for 6 months did I ever even find necessary.

Granted I wish I could run a damn program in the background on the iPhone, but I spend too much time on my iPhone as it is, so its probably for the best.

Soon apple will be releasing their push services, which will mean; the benefits of using very little battery power, and instant updates, meaning all your programs are 'running in the background at once' try doing that with your Nokia without it choking and spluttering all over the place.
And when they eventually insert copy and past in the iPhone (god knows when the idiots will release it) it will be so seamlessly intuitive that Nokia will be putting it in their phones a year and a half later.
 
e.cachucho said:
Jesus christ!
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Ah yes - my the lord be with thee blessed brother :p
e.cachucho said:
I was actually pondering that the other day. Have I ever wanted to copy and paste something on my iPhone, no. Ok fair enough only had it for two weeks.
But then I though; did I ever copy and paste with my Nokia N95 8gb? Nope, not ever, never ever once, it never even crossed my mind not for 6 months did I ever even find necessary.
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Yeah, I also found it a strange experience after years of working in DOS - but once you actually try it out, man, it is nothing short of puree magic. Strings of text gets cloned before your very eyes. :confused:

e.cachucho said:
Soon apple will be releasing their push services, which will mean; the benefits of using very little battery power, and instant updates, meaning all your programs are 'running in the background at once' try doing that with your Nokia without it choking and spluttering all over the place.
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Hey push services, now that takes me back to before DOS when we ran on these "dumb terminals" there were connected to a mainframe (where everything happens). Those where the days, pre-DOS days. Hey, that could be another similarity for the iPhone then? Well OK not the current one but the new one you say will have push services on ?

e.cachucho said:
And when they eventually insert copy and past in the iPhone (god knows when the idiots will release it) it will be so seamlessly intuitive that Nokia will be putting it in their phones a year and a half later.
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Yeah, now if only Nokia had it in there phone now and not 2 years after apple gets it. What a conundrum we have here for the poor sods with their Finnish handsets....
 
Rouxenator said:
Ah yes - my the lord be with thee blessed brother :p

Yeah, I also found it a strange experience after years of working in DOS - but once you actually try it out, man, it is nothing short of puree magic. Strings of text gets cloned before your very eyes. :confused:


Hey push services, now that takes me back to before DOS when we ran on these "dumb terminals" there were connected to a mainframe (where everything happens). Those where the days, pre-DOS days. Hey, that could be another similarity for the iPhone then? Well OK not the current one but the new one you say will have push services on ?

Yeah, now if only Nokia had it in there phone now and not 2 years after apple gets it. What a conundrum we have here for the poor sods with their Finnish handsets....
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Have u used OSX Tiger before?
 
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