Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:36:13 -0700
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: GPS Recommendation
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oh yes forgot to mention
the magellan comes with both triple a and caa integrated ...
so it is useful to us as canadians and while we are in the states
my wife and i both have iphones but when traveling in the states we leave
them shut off cause roaming charges are about 1.25 a minute and data is
3.00$ a packet
yours
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Bill Shawley <easywind1975@hotmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > It pains me to give in to modern technology being of the type that prides
> > themselves in their god given navigational skills, BUT I think I'm gonna
> get
> > a GPS. I don't know much about them and don't wanna get too engrossed in
> > the ins and outs. My wife loves the idea and I think the unit will
> reside
> > in her car most of the time but I guess it would be nice for trips.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm not looking to spend much, we don't really go off road or into the
> > wild, just something to keep my form depending on my mapquest printouts.
> >
> >
> >
> > Can anyone recommend any good, inexepensive units?
> >
>
> Hey, I understand the 'best' deal is to get an I-phone or one of it's
> clones. Then you can be totally connected with only one device. You can
> get your email, go online, and find driving directions, right from your
> front seat...hopefully not while you are supposed to be driving, but...
>
> I was just visited, in the "Outback of California" by a modern guy, a
> surgeon who brought his mobile device along..He used it to find his way
> from
> PDX to So Cal... to book his rental house..to find resturants on the trip
> and to consult with his patients while he was riding his bicycle...
>
> I guess once you figgured out how to run one, you wouln't need a GPS,
> since they have an "app" to interface with all the map and driving
> direction
> servers. That 3G signal...it seems a lot more available than WiFi...We
> were
> about ten miles from town in the desert and a guy near us was online all
> the
> time on his 3G signal...
>
> Man, it's hard to keep current on all the new electronics....
> Don Hanson
>
> I have a couple of Garmin units..one for my bicycle and one for my
> dirtbike...hand helds but very dependable and good customer service from
> Garmin..
>
> Wanee festival is only weeks away.
>
>
>
> Ryan
>
> >
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roger w
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