Bicycle SatNav

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doog

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Yep, and I can probably get that using my phone for tracking and mapping. 5hrs is about 20% so that works out at about 25 hours use.

25 hours of GPS enabled use on a standard phone on one charge ...thats interesting. What phone and battery ?
 

CopperBrompton

Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
Location
London
You get 25 hours with screen, GPS, GSM and 4G on? Or do you cripple the phone functionality plus run without a display?
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
Before we get too diverted by the phone vs specialised unit non-issue, one other comment about something like a Garmin eTrex - the one time when you can just type in an address and follow the trail is when you're reasonably close to your destination. The point of interest database is massive - last weekend I'd forgotten to print out maps of any of my hotels. My eTrex found them all, and routed me straight there from the edges of the towns.
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
I don't see why that is a comment about the etrex only. The point of interest database on my phone is pretty huge and it does online searching too if you want.
True, but the OP was asking about Garmins, not about phones.
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
Why must everyone take everything so literally?

The OP was asking for a SatNav. A phone isn't a SatNav, although there are apps which (dependent on battery life) can make a phone behave a little like one. One has to assume that if the OP has a smartphone (s)he is already aware that mapping software exists.

My comment about Points of Interest wasn't apropros the sterile debate between phone-lovers and people who'd rather not be tied to USB charging but apropos the OP's original comment - can you just type in your destination and get routed their safely and simply? The answer, with any device, is essentially no - but that answer no longer applies where one's destination is reasonably close.
 

contadino

Veteran
Location
Chesterfield
Oh cobblers. A phone can be a satnav just fine thanks, in some ways better.

Or maybe you're also going tell me that I can't use my phone as the remote for my telly, or to open my front gate, or to control the temperature on my brew fridge.
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
apropos the OP's original comment - can you just type in your destination and get routed their safely and simply? The answer, with any device, is essentially no - but that answer no longer applies where one's destination is reasonably close.
Maybe you should look again at phones. Safely yes - but how simple depends on how good the on-board mapping and user interface is!
 
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