Amazing

[jamsh]

I have been using a free satnav programme called Amaze, for the past week. This was downloaded to my Nokia 6680 and bluetoothed to a £25 GPS receiver. It certainly is 'amazing' and works perfectly every time. The database covers Europe and North America.
For older Mercs, this is definitely a cheap satnav alternative.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

So how does using GPS work, do you have to inable it via your service provider. I have a Nokia N73.

 

[jamsh]

The programme will ask you how you want to connect to the internet and you then click on whatever internet setup you have on your phone. It goes online briefly at the start of your trip, to download some data, and that's all. Have a look on their forum where the developers are very interactive with queries.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Thanks,

I will have a look, I thought it would rely on a constant connection thus giving you a large bill

 

[jamsh]

This is the Amaze Administrator's reply to a question similar to yours -


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Hi,

When calculating a route you open connection, receive details and close connection. After that - if you only use arrows mode - no more connections will open, unless the route is very long (more than approximately 500 km) and then another connection will be opened and closed, for the rest of the route.

I hope I answered your question
Regards

 

[Sp!ke]

I tried this but found it unuseably slow.

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[Diesel Benz]

So how does using GPS work, do you have to inable it via your service provider. I have a Nokia N73.

Not sure about your question if you got confused about the GPS part, jamsh had bought a separate (small) GPS device that communicates with the phone via BT. You would have to have GPRS service enabled to be able to download the map data, or what ever this applications showed on the phone.