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u'll hv to wait bro

get garmin or equivalent Satnav for car, else you really have to wait.

thanks a lot for the good news...

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Added on October 8, 2008, 3:05 pm
my friend show me garmin last time, looks like a big PDA, nice touch screen and the signal is quite accurate. my friend use it for driving purpose. around RM800+.

This post has been edited by little ice: Oct 8 2008, 03:05 PM

ya, compared to N95 my fren told me, not 1 but 2 of them said that if u use nokia routes, you hit wall already if u follow the instructions.

A good GPS will have appox 5m to 10m differences, Iphone have about 20m to 30m accuracy , but overall i tried , it very accurate.

If you are drivers, you not really depends on route, but rather take it as guide, of course when it say turn only u turn , you bang wall like N95 GPS lol

i needed the GPS because i need to pinpoint exactly where am i, then i'll start from there to check route and roads available. at least checking maps on iphone is waaaaay smoother and faster than with N95.

yap, i also just bought a garmin recently RM900. Really good device.

best part is when u duno which bus stop to stop at, u use the gps on the bus, then u'll know how far are u from the bus stop u wanna stop at.. syok!

well i think tht iphones gps system are 10x better than my former htc 3600i.... by a gizzilon miles!

hahahahaha

Tinkerbel,

Basically at first you will see it trying to detect your area, you will see a blue circle, then blue circle will become smaller then becomes a blue dot.
The thing with A-GPS is it uses the network signal first to detect your area location, and then narrow down which GPS satellite to communicate with. Without the network location, most application will try to detect the satellite based on the last used location. Theoretically you should not be far off from your last position. If that fails, then it will try to find others. So this takes time. I have seen the GPS signal taking up to 5 minutes to lock your location. This becomes worst if you are constantly using, and you have to be relatively outdoor.


The rest,
It is naive of Apple/Google to think that people will only be using GPS in their own country. I understand why they have to do that. They use on-demand map with cache instead of persistent map being stored in the phone. This has its advantages, especially when you are locating businesses and stuff that constantly change. And obviously no one is going to use data roaming, come back the bill will be like a million. But still, I rarely need to use GPS when I am at my home country. I use it a lot when I travel because you are most likely lost when you are traveling not when at home.

Secondly, Google map already have maps for KL. Since its using the supposedly same engine, I am not sure why they can't allow it in the iPhone. Pretty damn weird I say. Maybe I am missing out something.

Been reading this thread with fascination.

Currently with Google maps and a data connection, are we actually able to at least know our location and view the map ?

(sorry I'm a Iphone-wanna-buy)

to be precise, as long u can lock the gps to your phone, it will show a "blue" dot indicate where are you in the google map( as you say with data communication)

a phone gps is limited, after all micron already mah..

anyway, today and yesterday seems hard to connect to gps...anyone facing same problem?

i didn't encounter such a problem. however about three weeks ago, i had difficulties triangulating my position (via gps) for the entire day.

probly because raining and clouds, nvm i try tmr at uni

Yes google map has all Malaysia map. It is just that the features "driving direction is not activated by google map"

Get a try on your PC at

map.google.com
Set your default location to MALAYSIA, then do a GET DIRECTION.. u will get the same error message like what displayed in your iphone

Now, change your default location to SINGAPORE, then do a GET DIRECTION. U will GET a nice driving direction for u..Give a try on your PC..

I'm not sure if everyone knows about this already.. but heck it.. i'm happy and I wanna post this and tell everyone!!

We have driving directions for Malaysia now!!

woot! thanks for the info bro
reporting in

on a sidenote guys, u definitely need wifi connection or 3G access to route the maps

garmin is nothing also compared to this thing
different gadget different concept totally different stuffs where can compare

hahaha......just tested it and the directions for malaysia really working now!!! woooot!!
hopefully it can come with more routing features as in garmin or other GPS apps. i love garmin mobile xt in my n82