Apple iPhone- GPS
Think where you are, think where you need to be, think GPS
Give me a G! Give me a P! Give me an S! What does that give you? Global Positioning system. Calm yourselves and thank the satellites for saving your traipsing leg-ends, and the fact that the Apple iPhone comes with GPS as standard.
On the Jesus, GPS Maps either uses the GPS signal, or failing that plan B comes triangulates your position using Wi-Fi and cellular towers. Tap the widget on the homescreen and you're away. On average with GPS the iPhone found us quicker than the Home Office finds a bloke in a canoe in Panama, without it, it's speedy but not quite as accurate.
Once the little mite has found you it drops a pin on your location which you can drag and drop to a location on the map. Flip back the screen and search from anything from your contact address, to a postcode, point of interest or an address. Depending on how accurate you are, the 3Gesus is spot on. We tried and tested from T3 towers and managed to pin point our addresses using road names or post code and found these oh so interesting points of er... interest?
Coffee shops: 8 within half a mile
Pubs: 8 within half a mile
Restaurants: 18 within half a mile
Library: 2 within half a mile
Cinema: 1 within half a mile
It does struggle when it comes down to specifics, so don't hold your breath that it'll find a specialist shop for the doily-making enthusiast, although we're not sure that such establishments exist.
Compared to using Nokia maps on an N82, the GPS on the iPhone is far superior. The size and the touch-screen comes up trumps again and the pinching to zoom in and out is also a nifty addition. So Jobs' dip into a bit of geography is darn good. Our GPS pom poms are poised and ready. Give us a G!
Posted by Rhiain Morgan on 2008-07-18
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"Compared to using Nokia maps on an N82, the GPS on the iPhone is far superior"
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By T3James
22|07|2008 14:23
If you believe that the iPhone’s GPS is perfect then you should check out this article from techradar.com: www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/iphone-3g-what-we-really-think-one-week-on-428860 .
Here are some quotes: "There have been a few reports lauding the iPhone 3G as an excellent GPS advice. It isn't."
"It's still limited in terms of usefulness for pedestrian navigation while the screen also doesn't orientate to your direction of movement – both features within Nokia Maps."
By T3James
18|07|2008 20:46
THIS IS ABSOLUTE RUBBISH! What you are forgetting is that the iphone 3G does not offer Voice guidance like the n82 does with Nokia maps. Nokia maps offers all of the features of Google maps on the iphone such as traffic info, A-GPS and hybrid maps. BUT Nokia maps also offers features such as voice guidance, full screen turn info when you reach a junction and city guide. So I'm sorry but this reviewer clearly is incapable of looking beyond the iphone's big screen and UI, which I must admit, is gorgeous.