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iPhone panders to the girls

Wing_Z

Wing_Z

Charter Member 2011
There is a maps app on the 3GS iPhone (using Google Maps).
It is GPS-controlled, and will track you extremely accurately on the move.
Now for the Killer part of the App if you are North-challenged:
Instead of turning the device to align it with the street you're in, just tap the location key again...and the map rotates and orientates to where you're facing.
The more time I spend with this thing, the more I go "Sheesh...Wow"
 
I'm sorry, I don't understand how orienting a map display to "heading up" means that it "panders to the girls." :isadizzy:

Cheers,

Ken
 
He's using reverse psycology here ... we all know how we men hate to ask for directions. LOL!
 
I am constantly amazed myself also with the iPhone and the App technologies that are happening. They are getting more and more smarter...

Today at the airshow, I was lost from my family and finally had a use for the built in compass for a heading / bearing of where I was.

Half of my airshow photos I ended up taking with my iphone. The new camera App I have for it is just too nice. Plus it takes videos..


We used that map for finding the exit for the airport as well, lol...

(I also did a preflight trip in Flight Simulator in FSX with Mega Earth Scenery Arizona to find the airport, so finding the mountains while on the highway as well as washes and bridges made it as though I had already been there).


Bill
 
Ken Stallings said:
I'm sorry, I don't understand how orienting a map display to "heading up" means that it "panders to the girls."
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Snuffy said:
He's using reverse psycology here ...
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With absolutely no exceptions, every woman who has navigated me in a car, has given up at some point in frustration and rotated the map to "heading up" (Thanks Ken I was looking for the right term).
Most guys just look at the map, northside up, and say "Turn left here..."
My wife has a little trouble with the left and right thing, too :d

Bill you're right there are some amazing apps - and simply daft ones too.
I have "Remote" which allows me to use the phone as a remote control for iTunes on my computer.
Since it uses a Wifi connection for this, I can pick a song from halfway round the world if I choose!
 
I always orient my maps. That was the first thing we had to do in Boy Scouts when looking at a map, it's second nature now. Does the Iphone have gps built-in, or is it using something else to emulate gps?
 
djscoo said:
I always orient my maps. That was the first thing we had to do in Boy Scouts when looking at a map, it's second nature now. Does the Iphone have gps built-in, or is it using something else to emulate gps?
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It can locate itself on the planet. I dont know if thats considered GPS. It can obtain its GPS location, then it can use it in Map Apps to pinpoint where you are; thus they have Apps for 'Where did I park my car?' otherwise known as 'Dude! Wheres my car?" (shibbbi)

:d

I love that Remote...

Check out Tick Talk.

Bill
 
Hi All,

djscoo,
The iPhone 3GS has a built in GPS, there's also a bunch of external GPS's that you can use, EG: Tom Tom have an iPhone app.

There's some cool apps for the iPhone.

My Fav's are:

GPS/Weather
iMETAR - icao metar stations
MotionX GPS - one of the better GPS's I've checked out for iPhone
Day Tides - tide chart

Office
Scan2PDF - uses camera to take pic of document and converts to PDF.
Office2 Plus - word doc and spreedsheets

Music
Drum Meister - cool little drum kit
Guitar Tuner - name says it all

Games
Shooter lite - sniper game
BMW F1 lite - F1 sim
R.Racing GTI - car sim

Cheers :ernae:
Lindsay
 
Thank god I know where I am most of the time and don't need a compass or a map, or a phone wanna be.

I think Old Tim Taylor talked about it on an episode when he mentioned his magnetic boogers. I got a nose full of em too! :wavey:
 
Lionheart said:
I am constantly amazed myself also with the iPhone and the App technologies that are happening. They are getting more and more smarter...
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CF,

lololol.. eeks! :kilroy:


Thanks Lindsay for the heads up on those apps. I'll have to check them out. Especially the BMW F1 App.
 
The guy in that cartoon should retort, "Perhaps, but certainly more cooperative than you!"

Then duck! :icon_lol:

Ken
 
Our cell phone...love it. It has an on/off button. 10 buttons for dialing numbers. Two buttons for staring the call and ending the call. No apps, no camera, no vibrate, no miniature keyboard, no video screen, no built in flash light. It's just a phone...a simple, non-folding Motorola pre-paid Tracfone that we have had for the better part of 6 years. $30 every 3 months to add more service time and more minutes. It is only turned on when we want to place a call with it. No one knows the number to call the phone....not even us and it's our phone.....no incoming calls have ever been received on the phone.

OBIO
 
I'm curious about the GPS function of cell phones. Do they actually use the GPS constelation of satalites or do they triangulate their position from cell towers?
 
See, this is the thing with Smartphones, iPhone in particular.
They seamlessly use whatever is available to give the best result.
This from the Apple website:
Find locations.
iPhone 3GS finds your location quickly and accurately via GPS, Wi-Fi, and cellular towers.

When you use the web browser, it looks for WiFi first, when that drops out it switches to the cellphone network.
I haven't figured out how to disable that as the costs run up quite quickly.
 
Our cell phone...love it. It has an on/off button. 10 buttons for dialing numbers. Two buttons for staring the call and ending the call. No apps, no camera, no vibrate, no miniature keyboard, no video screen, no built in flash light. It's just a phone...a simple, non-folding Motorola pre-paid Tracfone that we have had for the better part of 6 years. $30 every 3 months to add more service time and more minutes. It is only turned on when we want to place a call with it. No one knows the number to call the phone....not even us and it's our phone.....no incoming calls have ever been received on the phone
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:icon29::icon29::icon29: My boss at work has the default ringtone on his phone, as I do. Told him that's the coolest ringtone I ever heard! He said that's the only way! Only the coolest have the default ringtone!
And don't try to argue!
 
Wing_Z said:
When you use the web browser, it looks for WiFi first, when that drops out it switches to the cellphone network.
I haven't figured out how to disable that as the costs run up quite quickly.
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Its called ... Don't use it then. :icon_lol:
 
Jagdflieger said:
I'm curious about the GPS function of cell phones. Do they actually use the GPS constelation of satalites or do they triangulate their position from cell towers?
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Mine uses satellites, so the GPS doesn't work indoors.


It's nothing more than a nice gimmick anyways.
 
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