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Which do you think is the best, and why?
Also can you mention the price of it too, please
Navigon.
Don't know the price - bought it YEARS ago ...
I would say sygic cause after u have download the map. It just uses the satelit to track ur phone rather than 3g. This saves u some bucks.
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I would say sygic cause after u have download the map. It just uses the satelit to track ur phone rather than 3g. This saves u some bucks.
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Does it have lots of POIs?
Waze... Free turn by turn Nav with user updated traffic.. Real time road conditions.
I just read that Sygic uses TomTom maps, which is good
Enjoy with sygic then.
It’s very hard to tell which Gps app is the best for new Samsung GT-I9300 Galaxy S III.
I’ve installed those Gps apps: Navikey 7 ways, Sygic Aura, Route 66(Maps + Navigation)
All those working well(full screen) for Galaxy’s resolution 1280x720.
Navikey 7 ways - I the very new app from our Russian friends, don’t have many option yet, app & maps for it, is completely free.
Sygic Aura - much better than 7 ways, but I personally didn’t like it for some reasons. Try it, possibly you’ll like.
There are many forums where you can download it for free, already cracked.
Route 66(Maps + Navigation) – best app for now. I sure that many of WM users know it very well. It is free for 30 days only. Find the price for it on their web site. Hope you know what the Google is…
I’m new android user, and my best Gps app form WM is the IGO, but unfortunately do not exist yet for our 1280x720 resolution. When it comes, I’ll change to that one. For me is the best Gps program.
Try Waze! Im telling you its great.
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Waze... Free turn by turn Nav with user updated traffic.. Real time road conditions.
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Should be in the poll. It looks like a "micky mouse" app, but it is really powerful.
Also love how quickly the S3 gets a GPS lock. Makes navigation super accurate (and fast to start). No waiting for GPS...
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Should be in the poll. It looks like a "micky mouse" app, but it is really powerful.
Also love how quickly the S3 gets a GPS lock. Makes navigation super accurate (and fast to start). No waiting for GPS...
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Can i still add it to the poll?
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I think Copilot is the best..
I have downloaded the maps to the phone so I don't need data.. just GPS.. but it drains the battery pretty fast I think.. I get about 2 to 2 in a half hours out of a 3500mAh battery.. and that's while its on the car charger.. maybe that's normal. I don't know..
Osmand. I was using it on my s2 and now the s3. You can download maps for free and they are updated monthly. Try it, its free.
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I've bought Sygic since my Nokia 5800 Xpress music and I really liked it back then. However the latest years Sygic isn't updating the maps that often. Last maps update is 2010 as far as I remember.
I tried using Sygic some weeks ago just to see if the 3 years old roads were updated. Well... They weren't. There are some new roads in the town I live in and I drove over them just to see that Sygic was displaying them as farming fields without names or something. This is really disappointing.
If the maps get updated then I think Sygic is the best since it has many POIs and real places photos and it doesn't require internet as Google Maps does.
For the moment and since Sweden is having a great HSDPA network coverage in combination with my 10 GB data plan I will be using Google Maps. (Google Navigation does support voice guidance in swedish!)
I used to do a lot of driving with work. Tried almost all of them - always keep coming back to Co-Pilot live Premium.
Very powerful, very stable. Reasonable pricing, including things like free live traffic for 12 months.
Please be mindful that the poll will show what people are using (typically someone will use just one app that they have paid for and wont have experience with others, and many will be using free solutions like G Maps), not what is the better app.
I have previously fully tested the android versions of Igo, Sygic, Navigon, Copilot, Ndrive as well as most of the free navigation apps on my last device.
They all have different features that will appeal to individual preferences.
IGO has always been by far the best GPS software but is not available for purchase on android. The resolution for this device is not supported yet but it's only a matter of time before someone produces a skin that supports it. It is highly customizable and appeals to the more technically minded who are prepared to get into its guts and mess around. That being said the android version is unfortunately a battery hog and I would not recommend it to the casual GPS user for that reason.
The worst is Navigon which although it has a nice interface and almost perfect TTS suffers from atrocious routing (it will get you where you want to go but invariably by the worst route possible)
The rest fall somewhere inbetween with Sygic being the closest contender to Igo in terms of routing, flexibility and 3d map display. As a previous poster has mentioned though, you take your chances with map updates.
Google maps navigation has come on in leaps and bounds over the last year and is now a close contender. The advantages are that it's free and totally integrated with the OS. Routing could be improved but it's search function is unbeatable, particularly the ability to voice search. It looks pretty certain that Google are about to release a major upgrade in the near future which should include full offline use and lots of other goodies.
Finally, we are lucky to own a device which in my opinion is about as state of the art as non military GPS technology gets.
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Tom Tom
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due to the nature of my job i drive around a lot, i started with sigic aura, it works well but i could never get it to use the fatest route (it would always go for the shortest route) , it would use A/B roads over two junctions further on the motoway to back track a mile.
so i got copilot live when it was released and it works.
I notice there are a few versions of copilot live. Standard and premium.
Maybe I'll look into that one a bit more
My vote goes to Waze.
Freakin Awesome in Singapore.
I couldn't get the Google Navigation to speak in turn-by-turn.
Anyone has any idea if anything needs to be enabled? TIA
Hi all,
Having seen the videos of the Note 2 in action and read loads of reviews singing it's praises i'm almost convinced that it's time for me to part ways with my iPhone 4S and try something different (and better hopefully). So I decided to have a play with the display model in my local O2 store. Annoyingly just swiping between screens seemed quite jittery and slow and I was quite worried by that. Giving the benefit of the doubt I tried another Note 2 but this time in the Three store and that one was as silky smooth as i'd hoped. Does anyone know what O2 have done to theirs to make it feel so bad? Or does it normally still run smoothly even with tons of applications installed? And has anyone else come from an iPhone and have any tips for a smooth transition?
Thanks
No idea what O2 might have done to make their display device run so badly.
I've got a T Mobile Note 2 and it's super smooth - zero jitter or lag and I have quite a few apps installed. Even when running in multi-screen mode with two apps simultaneously displayed it is still 100% responsive
The devices in stores are usually left on for days, are plugged in all the time and have a load of crap installed to it. Not to mention the introduction videos that are constantly playing on them.
Next time you go in a store; give them a reboot
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Thanks for reassurance. I'll be grabbing a Note 2 and hopefully it'll live up to my expectations.
I can confirm that O2 firmware on the Note 2 is freaking horrendous. What were they THINKING?! It is indeed slow and jerky. Even the splash screen is an abomination. And why make it so you have a big ugly notification if NFC is on?
I had to go back to it for a whole day from stock as I was returning the handset for a replacement in titanium grey and t almost put me off the phone.
Thank God for the XDA community and the ready availability of stock ROMs.
If anyone out there from the O2 Screwingwithperfectlygoodhandsets Department is listening.....just STOP it. We don't want your crummy little splash screen or a wallpaper with the O2 Arena on it. AND WE CERTAINLY DON'T WANT YOUR SLOW ROMS.
Will admit I only lived with the O2 ROM for about 24 hours before flashing stock, but I didn't notice it being particularly jerky during that time. NFC icon though, you're quite right.
+1 I actually put new rom on within 2hours. Didn't bothered with branded
My upgrade comes next month and I wanna hear from those who switched from the og note to the note 2. Was it worth it to you? How is the phone performance? How about development? I've been watching this forum closely and I look forward to any input you might have. Thanks in advance.
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My upgrade comes next month and I wanna hear from those who switched from the og note to the note 2. Was it worth it to you? How is the phone performance? How about development? I've been watching this forum closely and I look forward to any input you might have. Thanks in advance.
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I went from the HTC Desire HD to the Samsung Galaxy SII, and now, to the Samsung Note II.
The size takes a bit getting used to. I'm still trying to use the back button with my left thumb, which just can't reach across. I have tiny hands. But other than that, I love the screen when I'm watching or reading something. The S-Pen adds a totally new dimension that I didn't expect before. I don't mean just the handwriting recognition or being able to get your cursor where you want. Being able to do screenshots, crop and annotate them is super useful, at least to me.
Aside from that, performance is what i'd expect from a brand new phone; everything is snappy and smooth. The battery lasts me the whole day (8am to when I sleep, 11pm or so?) rather than just half a day (have to charge before I leave work). I consider myself a moderate to high user: I've used 5gb out of 6gb of my quota (around 1gb for google reader alone), but most of it was for tethering.
The Samsung stock keyboard was surprisingly useful. They snuck in that word prediction feature from Swiftkey (well, i bought swiftkey from before) and it's finally took me away from the compact qwerty layout I've been using since the first Blackberry Pearl (2006).
Lots of little Samsung'isms all over the place. Little tilt motion things, not turning off when you're reading, keeping orientation when you lie down in bed while reading ... it's useful!
Things I'm not impressed with:
Not enough S-Pen specific apps. Not really Samsung's fault, I know they've been trying to motivate developers
Screen is too bright sometimes in the dark. I think it might be me not figuring out how to set it yet
Size. Both its strength and its weakness.
TouchWiz. Okay, this is personal preference for sure. But I replaced this with one of the many 3rd party launchers available, so it's okay.
Language Support, in particular East Asian language handwriting recognition support. Again, 3rd party. Most people won't need this, I'm guessing.
Not being able to save apps to the SD card. I don't know why, But I haven't been able to find the function. I only got the 16gb one, so I'm scared it's going to fill up.
That's all I can think of right now.
Download "screen filter" to solve the brightness problem. I use it every night and every morning. Regarding the apps2sd, well you can't without rooting. Some idiot at Google decided to remove that feature which is completely insane. I only reason to do this imo is because they (Google) are planning on releasing a console in th near future. A console which would probably not sell so well after we upgrade our just as powerful smartphones after 2 years and use them as a console instead. Whatever the reasons it is bad for us, bad for developers, bad for android and bad for sd card makers. The funny thing is that Samsung boasts about the expandable storage!!
I just recently switched myself and all I can say is wow! This phone is something else. I am really starting to love this phone. (coming from iP4s by the way) Its been a week now and I have no regrets at all. I still have a lot to learn about the full potential of the phone.
I do miss some of the simplicities of the iP4s IOS but just love the performance of this phone.
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My upgrade comes next month and I wanna hear from those who switched from the og note to the note 2. Was it worth it to you? How is the phone performance? How about development? I've been watching this forum closely and I look forward to any input you might have. Thanks in advance.
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I came from the Note 1. And everything is better faster etc etc on the Note 2. On the Note 1 I had it rooted and custom ROM'd and on the Note 2 I have not felt the need to do any of that...yet. The battery is bananas...I got almost 5 hours screen time and 1 1/2 days stand by on a single charge...I also still had 25% left in the tank. That alone makes it an easy choice. The main reason I was doing the custom roms on the Note 1 was to kill some of the bloat and apps I didnt need to save battery life. With the Note 2 it doesnt seem needed.
I'm one of those that really needs the slider keyboard, so this is the phone I'm considering. I'm also on AT&T with grandfathered voice and data plans and don't want to mess things up getting a phone from them.
My current phone is an LG Expo. It's Windows Mobile 6.5, stock ROM and just some tweaks. I went with WinMo because of the seamless integration with my work contacts and calendar. Employer does not allow use of cloud to sync these. I understand there is the Kies app that allows you to directly sync these (though I also have seen that many have trouble with it). I really, really need pop-up reminders of my appointments.
I don't use my phone for games, I don't tweet or facebook, and I don't listen to music or watch videos on it
. I do text a lot, Google, Wikipedia, check sports scores, occasionally use the camera or video, and , of course, make calls. I do occasionally need to sneak in some tethering via WiFi (for which I plan t use PDANet/FoxFi). So, I'm not very demanding. If my eXpo would do better on web sites, I'd probably just stick with it. But even the "mobile" sites have so many graphics these days that they often won't load completely on my phone.
After Microsoft left us WinMo 6.5 users high and dry, taking down the apps store well before it's time, I swore I's never get another Windows phone. No removable battery kills the iPhone. So, Android it is.
With new phones going for around $160 on eBay and the ICS upgrade available (stock AT&T or a few here), this seems the right phone to move to Android. I'm not sure I'm going to like a phone that's an inch longer and half an inch wider, but that seems to be the only real choice these days.
I know a lot of folks here are into getting the most from their phones with the hottest new ROM, but I think there might also be some less experimental that can help me determine if I'm making a good choice.
Well, its been out for quite a while now. Not that its outdated, it is still fast and usable. But the ROMS for it are quite limited, i suggest you stay with stock ICS if you dont want any trouble, but you will lack some features.
Other that that, i still have that phone, using it everyday, still working good, the battery died so i bought a new one (extended). The keyboard and mechanism is still working fine with no sign of it breaking soon.
The tegra 2 chipset is fast enough for any apps to run at a decent speed on it.
The only thing i hate about that phone is the wake-up bug, in a hurry, it can be frustrating that the phone doesnt turn on at the exact moment that i press the button (it normally takes 1-2, even 3 seconds to turn on the screen).
I would recommend it since its gone quite cheap and its been reliable for me.
I bought mine new very recently (2 months) from a seller on amazon, and I haven't been disappointed.
I also love slider qwerty, so the combination of specs and price sealed the deal. Unlike Gab1288 I can't say I recommend the stock ICS rom, it was unstable for me -- I had multiple freezes per day in the 3 days I used it right after I bought the phone.
I've been using spyke555's CM10.1.0 RC2 rom and never been happier with an Android rom. I can't get gps to work right with Sygic maps, which is a bummer, but apart from that, I highly recommend this phone and this rom.
Since I've gotten it, and learning how much I paid for it, I've had two people ask me to buy them one when I visit the US again.
This is my 3rd Captivate Glide in the row. The first had a damaged physical keyboard - the "s" key was very so hard to press that it caused me a pain. The second one had a damaged microphone - sometimes people could barely hear me. After being hit, it worked for a moment. The third phone finally works. So I'm not happy with I927 in terms of the overall quality. But I enjoy the working phone, 512MB RAM in my previous phone (HTC Desire Z / Vision) was not enough. Thus it was extremely slow and unresponsive. 1 GB RAM is not that much but unfortunately there is no 2 GB phone with a physical keyboard on the market. There's also Motorola Photon Q which I would probably prefer better, but I couldn't find a way to get it imported to my country.
EDIT: The third does not work either. After some time IMEI disappears as if there was no /efs. To get it back I need to reconnect the battery...
Hi, I used to own a nexus 7 (2013) and i loved that device, sadly the unit i owned died, and i've been using an ipad mini 1st gen ever since.
I would be using the device for almost exclusevely youtube netflix and reading and i wanna know if the device would perform well at that level. I think i would appreciate the resolution upgrade from the ipad mini, but im worried if the nexus would be able to perform those tasks well enough or if i should just save more and just bare with this ipad for a little longer then get something else better. Thanks for any insight on ur current experiences with ur beloved nexus
I am also interested in that question, have picked up a Nexus 7 but didn't realise how old it was.
I have a Nexus 7 (2013) and love it, partly thanks to the price I got it (50 CAD) but I have to admit that it struggles a bit with everything now.
Don't get me wrong, it's still usable but when you have a video embedded in a webpage for example, you'll feel it.
I am updating it regularly with LOS 15.1 btw.
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I am also interested in that question, have picked up a Nexus 7 but didn't realise how old it was.
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You picked one up?! These things are hard to find when you're looking for them, especially a LTE model.
Anyway. I'd not get one unless you're doing some specialized like a car install.
Hi,
Yes got one off ebay with a cracked screen for not a lot of money, have ordered a replacement screen and will get that changed this weekend.
I actually bought it so I could use it in my car with and obd2 app. Hopefully it will at least work for that
It's awesome for in-car use. The LTE version is even better!
I use mine as a Kindle, Newspaper/Magazine reader, and Satnav.
Love it, actually.
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I use mine for exactly what you are looking for and it works great. I'm running LineageOS 14.1 and everything is pretty quick for a 6 year old device.
I installed Lineage 15.1 and its working well so far
If you think that you are going to thoroughly enjoy using it then purchase one. Who are we to tell you not to?
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If you think that you are going to thoroughly enjoy using it then purchase one. Who are we to tell you not to?
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I just wanted the input on if it wouldnt be just too laggy with apps crashing and such, but i went ahead and bought myself one, and it does everything i wanted with no problem at all <3
works great still
chumpex said:
I just wanted the input on if it wouldnt be just too laggy with apps crashing and such, but i went ahead and bought myself one, and it does everything i wanted with no problem at all <3
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It still works awesome for me. I bought it initially to install in my car, and it's been amazing. Battery life is so much better with the lineage OS installed. I was just sad when they stopped updated with it. Somebody has lineage 15.1 installed and the camera is working? I thought it wouldn't with 15. I've just kept 14 on mine.
I have 15.1 and the camera is working fine
I use the Nexus 7 LTE as my daily driver actually. since 3g is sufficient for encrypted voice calls and text messaging i am fine in 90% of the situations. But be aware that installing any google services brings your batterylife and performance to inuseable. stuttering youtube, when watching 720p on cellular. noticable loading times for simple apps etc.
Since i use mostly my own infrastructure and services (and i am a noob so its all very basic), i can even lower the CPU step to ~1 GHz (60/70%) and i got a batterylifespan fullcharge to shutdown ranging from 2 days for extensive use (hourwise reading/streaming video) and on my average use i get 4-5 days (50/60 messages a day, ~2h/day streaming music on cellular, ~.5 hours of reading in the evening, casual online searches, marginal navigation/public transport lookup) on pure standby its over 10 days. I went for a vacation and cut the power to most of my apartment, but the Nexus wasn't turned of. Had 13% remaining battery when i returned.
For holidays/outdooractivities, where i need 1 week+ Battery and voice/SMS reception (either for emergency reasons or lack of mobile internet) i use an old b/w candybar phone with the option of external antenna.
So if you want a shiny game device with hours of mobile video and google telling you **** all day about the weather, the famous persons that walked this exact street once and that there is a mediocre rated restaurant of your favourite cuisine just 200 feet away. Dont go for the Nexus 2013.
But if you just need a mobile organizer, reader, a little multimedia, communication and you avoid telemetry, ads and tracking (google, facebook, whatsoever) anyways the nexus is a great device and probably will be for a good while, since a lot of good and consitent developers share that view.
Greetz, pitch