Motorola Droid
Navigation
I am looking to upgrade to the Droid from my Env Touch. I am currently using VZ Navigator. How is the navigation using Google? How does it compare?
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It depends how you use VZ Navigator.
Voice search is way better on Google maps, and the display, being higher resolution, is IMO much more informative.
There's also more choices, like viewing aerial photos instead of "just" map. It also auto zooms based on speed. If you go slower, it zooms in; as you get close to your destination, you can go to street view, just like in Google Maps on your PC, and actually see your destination.
However, it isn't as useful at finding things like gas prices near you (though there are other apps for that) or movies (again, there's an app for that, too. Actually more than one).
I can't really compare the quality of the navigation directions, since I mostly drive in the same area, so I rarely need d...
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Voice search is way better on Google maps, and the display, being higher resolution, is IMO much more informative.
There's also more choices, like viewing aerial photos instead of "just" map. It also auto zooms based on speed. If you go slower, it zooms in; as you get close to your destination, you can go to street view, just like in Google Maps on your PC, and actually see your destination.
However, it isn't as useful at finding things like gas prices near you (though there are other apps for that) or movies (again, there's an app for that, too. Actually more than one).
I can't really compare the quality of the navigation directions, since I mostly drive in the same area, so I rarely need d...
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HEY MUPI ITS ME AGAIN!!! 🤣 once again you may not know but hopefully you do....once the eris is updated to 2.0-2.1 google navigation will be available to me correct??? does the eris currently have a navigation system i could use??? once again im not good with these devices but am learning EVERY SINGLE DAY 🤣 😎 THANKS MUPI
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😁 Once you get the 2.0/2.1 (I think its going to be 2.1 on the Eris, but I could be wrong) update, you should have Navigation. (it is part of the 2.x family, which is why some of the older phones will never get 2.anything; they simply can't handle the CPU requirements--not just for maps, but for a lot of the 2 stuff.)
You CAN get navigation apps in the Marketplace, but I have no idea if they are any good. They are pretty much next to worthless on the Droid, since it is already included.
You CAN get navigation apps in the Marketplace, but I have no idea if they are any good. They are pretty much next to worthless on the Droid, since it is already included.
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yea see ive been looking every single day and still yet have been able to find one that is worth wile 😢 but on the otherhand when the update does come itl be available and if i heard right it should be 2.1 like u said and i heard maybe sometime 1st quarter 2010 so we will see...that would be kool...hey check out this app. its called TRAPSTER...pretty cool 😁
THANKS AGAIN.
IN A WORLD THAT DOESENT...DROID DOES!! 😲
THANKS AGAIN.
IN A WORLD THAT DOESENT...DROID DOES!! 😲
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the navigation system only works about 30% of the time, it will either put you in another town or another country!! crazy stupid.. also when the navigation does work, the cool sat. view only works in cars up to 70mph, anything past that and the graphics cant keep up, and the screen goes white,,more bs from the droid!
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That's just plain stupid. You might want to check your facts before you post pure BS.
I happen to live in a rural area, next to an interstate with a 75mph speed limit. Said interstate also runs along one of the few "white areas" on Verizon's map.
I also routinely drive above the speed limit.
So, we have me, driving 80mph though poor to nonexistant 3x coverage (yes, sometimes it drops to 1x digital)
And yet, I have only once had the problem you describe. When I passed through a zone and had no signal at all. The white only lasted a few seconds, and once the data connection was restored, it went back to normal.
I've never been placed in the next town when using GPS, and an actual GPS fix was available. One of the interest...
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I happen to live in a rural area, next to an interstate with a 75mph speed limit. Said interstate also runs along one of the few "white areas" on Verizon's map.
I also routinely drive above the speed limit.
So, we have me, driving 80mph though poor to nonexistant 3x coverage (yes, sometimes it drops to 1x digital)
And yet, I have only once had the problem you describe. When I passed through a zone and had no signal at all. The white only lasted a few seconds, and once the data connection was restored, it went back to normal.
I've never been placed in the next town when using GPS, and an actual GPS fix was available. One of the interest...
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Well, all I can say is my experience directly contradicts yours.
I drive about 900 miles per week with my droid happily perched on the car mount, displaying google maps about 80% of the time, and don't have the problem you describe. And the speed limit is well above 70Mph, and I drive above that.
Come to think of it, I think the night i had the problem with the maps display, it was when I was also running pandora, which is a bandwidth hog, and could possibly explain why the map was unable to update as fast. Although like I said, when I glanced at it, it was showing 0 bars of 1xRTT signal (in other words, not just no 3g, but no digital coverage at all (and yes, those places exist. Around here, there are more of them, than there are p...
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I drive about 900 miles per week with my droid happily perched on the car mount, displaying google maps about 80% of the time, and don't have the problem you describe. And the speed limit is well above 70Mph, and I drive above that.
Come to think of it, I think the night i had the problem with the maps display, it was when I was also running pandora, which is a bandwidth hog, and could possibly explain why the map was unable to update as fast. Although like I said, when I glanced at it, it was showing 0 bars of 1xRTT signal (in other words, not just no 3g, but no digital coverage at all (and yes, those places exist. Around here, there are more of them, than there are p...
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man knowledge is powerful isnt it? 🤣 🤣 vaginaBOY u might as well give up on the forums and get a new phone dummy.....actually no wait, i want u to keep posting ur so called "problems"....makes my day at work SO much FUNNER and i learn so much each day on what the droid actually DOES not doesent. 😲
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