Route66 navigator thingy delivered here today, for to put on the new toy (Samsung Omnia). The Omnia, among other things, has a built-in GPS receiver
- but the bundled software is the evil google maps, which downloads data from the net every time you move the map or change the zoom. This is fine if you happen to be near a wireless network, since it has that built-in too, but if you're not (IOW most of the time) is uses the GPRS connection, which, unless you've got a contract with decent supply of data bytes, costs an arm and a leg. Naturally, any warnings about this behaviour decline to mention the cost thereof, nor did I notice anyone in any of the reviews of the phone mentioning it either, so clearly the networks are paying the reviewers.
Route66 has instructions suggesting you install it on a memory card, and plug this into your device, but the Omnia has 8GB of internal memory, so there's every chance I'll never actually need a separate memory card. Setting it to mass storage mode lets you talk to the "my storageº" bit of windows mobile as a card, and Route66 was happy to install to this, unplug the USB and it installs on the phone. Enter the code and off it goes. Took it outside (as for once it wasn't raining) so it could see the satellites more clearly, and it found 5 or 6. More impressively, it will find 3 sitting on the desk in front of me, which ain't exactly a clear view of the sky.
Overall, the Omnia continues to be more impressive than irritating, windows mobile notwithstanding.
º don't ya just lurve windows... blech.