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I imagine the Iphone is much like this Galaxy S II skyrocket but the Galaxy has a much bigger screen. The BIG screen is important for those of us with eyesight that isn't what is use to be. ![]() Bottom line it's like a Popeil's Pocket Fisherman it's a web browser, GPS, text by talking, more apps than I'll ever use and oh yah, a phone. The days of separate GPS boxes is numbered just like the pagers of old .
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Over the years I've done a lot of marine navigation working with nautical charts where north was always up so naturally I use the same approach when working with road maps or the nav systems found in cars these days. Even though my wife and kids accuse me of being "old school" I can look at a chart or map and have no problem finding where I'm at and plot a course to where I'm going which is a lot more than they can say.
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As an aside, I just read that the NYTimes has discontinued support for Blackberry apps.
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Cool, I hope someone comes out with the idea to make a standard docking interface for all phones someday. Not likely.... THAT would make too much sense.
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My wife can have the GPS....but I'll always be a map guy....worked in the Land Surveying trade for 12 years ....always loved looking at maps as a kid and wondering about other places, guess its what you grow up with.....
I just see the kids today relying on their tech gadgets so much telling them what to do, and where to go, to the point where if the batteries ever die far from home they are all ![]()
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Funny thing is... my wife loves maps, she can spend hours poring over them etc. but she can't navigate worth a damn!
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That which is lost on all this is a sense of place that is a sense for where I am relative to a mental map. That mental map is gone. The feeling is the same as when I started using canned formulas in PC programs vs doing the math on paper. That dates me ![]()
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I have been relying on Garmin to get me home safely for years both in foul and good weather.
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