Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm turning to the LUG's vast pool of expertise here. I'm not a cell-phone expert. I use the prepaid Tracfone service on a simple, several year-old Nokia. It's just a phone. Costs me about $120 per year. That's "year," not "month." Which is why I've kept it simple. So last week I was in New England, and used a friend's GPS to get in and out of Boston alive. And I got to thinking, "Hmm. This could actually be useful." Another friend mentioned that rather than buy a dedicated GPS, you can buy last year's phone inexpensively, and put a GPS app on it. Add maybe a nice HP calculator emulator and internal phone book/scheduler if the latter isn't already included. Useful. He seemed to say that you didn't need a data plan for GPS apps. Can anyone tell me if this is indeed the case? I assume you download the app and maps on your computer and transfer them to the phone via cable or Bluetooth, or to an SD card, but I don't know. The phones Tracfone supports in my area include the LG 500G and LG 800G, which are app-capable. Can somebody tell me if they support a GPS app? Will I be able to use it with the Tracfone service, or am I going to have to buy some other service as well? Sorry for the "grasshopper" novice question. --Peter, opening up a can of worms...