Most people who know me, know I’m not a fan of GPS! But if asked to list 10 things that were the greatest inventions of the 20th century – GPS would be near the top somewhere.
GPS is for three things Aircraft, Ships and accurate targeting of you’re Tomahawk Cruise Missile – or people who can’t read maps!!
The reason is simple, if you’re out walking in the country and you get caught out by things like extreme bad weather or it goes dark – you wouldn’t be surprised just how many people walk off cliffs or drop into rivers or ravines and die!
For the most part, GPS is handy for doing multi-drop deliveries, but if you’re in a truck… things like bridge heights and weight restrictions are rarely listed! Bare that in mind Caravan owners!!
So my all new HTC HD2 phone comes with it all on and I’ve been playing with it. 
The HD2 also finds your location via cell towers when the GPS is turned off, a quick look at Google maps will give you a location with a couple of thousand meters at any given time – along with connecting to just about everything that can give off any kind of radio signal.
The Compass is a handy feature to the outdoors types and appears to be very sensitive too.
But the new vehicle mount is quite clever, as soon as you connect your phone – it brings up the 
GPS navigation index.
I doubt very much that I’ll be buying one of those – but this phone is keeping me quite amused!
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