Midnight Rider Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Hey all, My employer was kind enough to issue us new cell phones and I got a Nextel i710 that has integrated GPS. I can purchase ($20) Trimble navigation software from Nextel that will allow me to use the phone as a GPSr. Has anyone used this and if so, was it pretty good or ???? http://theta5.cellmania.com/web/itemdetail...830217&IID=4520 Quote Link to comment
+Joe Smith Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 I look at it for a while, but for the price it just was not worth it for me. I have a phone and a good plan, and I have a great GPS. Because you now have a nextel phone (I guess for free) the $20 would be a nice investment. The gps is the cheap part, it's the phone and plan that they want to get you hooked on. I'd say get it, try it out, and let us know how it works. Joe Smith Quote Link to comment
+GeoMom Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 My husband has a Nextel and he needed a bit of maintenance on it, so he took it into the distributor. They offered to install the GPS software for free, which he did. Now, being winter and over a foot of snow on the ground, we haven't used it yet for caching. He did fire it up and I fired up my Rino and his accuracy was reported at about 7 feet, while the Rino reported 21 feet. Soooo, I guess we just have to wait and see, but caching with two units should increase the overall accuracy. It's still fun... Quote Link to comment
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