[geeks] Good, cheap GPS?

[Lionel Peterson]

Oh, for sure, makes a lot of sense at those price-points...

Lionel

> On Feb 27, 2014, at 9:00 AM, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 08:22:41AM -0600, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> How is this older cellphone displaying all that info? An app?
>
> I think it's part of Nokia Maps, but it's a separate icon.
>
>> I hate to suggest this, but as a thought, what about a 'no contract'
windows
>> phone? Are there windows phone apps that would suffice? A Nokia 521
windows
>> phone 8 is about $60 these days, and it can perform all it's
tablet/smartphone
>> functions (except place/receive calls, of course) w/o cell service...
>
> I already have enough old cellphones and this one is actually pretty nice
> and was a hacker's delight in its day. Disconnected it's still useful like
> you said. But for the money I'll go with a dedicated GPS unit like Will
> suggested. The price is right and it should work a lot better than a phone.
>
> Anybody wanna buy a Siemans S45 or a hacked Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, lemme
> know ;-)
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