Comments on: New Version of Google Maps for Palm OS Released
On the Google Mobile Maps Treo-specific page, Google hints at speed enhancements in this latest version, along with real-time traffic reports and detailed directions. Google also touts "shorter startup time" and "stylus integration" as enhancements in this latest version of the app.
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Pat Horne
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RE: useless without data plan
Seriously... doesn't having to count your kilobytes completely defeat the whole purpose?
RE: useless without data plan
RE: useless without data plan
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RE: useless without data plan
Do you at least get unlimited SMS there?
Can you believe I still don't get any free text messages on a $100/month Verizon dumbphone voice plan or on my $50 unlimited "PDA data" 700p plan?!?!
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RE: useless without data plan
On the flipside, it's wonderfully easy to switch carriers here when better plans become available. I've switched from Virgin to Optus to Vodafone and then back to Optus so far; it's the beauty of everyone using GSM.
RE: useless without data plan
RE: useless without data plan
RE: useless without data plan
Do you at least get unlimited SMS there?Can you believe I still don't get any free text messages on a $100/month Verizon dumbphone voice plan or on my $50 unlimited "PDA data" 700p plan?!?!
The voice plans that VerizonWireless is now pushing (at least they are trying to push them on me. I think they just started pushing them about 2 or 3 months ago) now includes unlimited SMS.
RE: useless without data plan
I have Sprint (with roaming incl) and have done drivearounds with Verizon users - negligible difference. Certainly not worth paying Verizon their quoted rate of DOUBLE my comparable service plan with Sprint.
TX users...
Palm TX + 1GB SD + Motorola v3x = awesomeness
RE: TX users...
RE: TX users...
Been using for about a week
Easily one of the best designed apps on the Palm. I'm glad Google hasn't abandoned us!
Arthur
Palm Pilot 1000 > Palm Pilot Professional > Palm III > Palm M100 > Sony Clié PEG-T415 > Palm T|T3 > Samsung SCH-i730 > Palm 700p
Nice Update - can we have a home location
Being able to set a home location (with an associated icon) would be useful. I realize you can do this in a workaround way, but that home key and shortcut when looking up directions (to and from) would be very useful.
Thanks again
RE: Nice Update - can we have a home location
They still have no GPS support for whatever reason, but it's an incredibly designed application even without it. Does seem a little quicker, and the GUI is outstanding considering the real estate they have to work with.
One great addition would be "walking" directions.
RE: Nice Update - can we have a home location
I predict Palm is going to integrate GPS into at least one Treo before 2007 is up...probably the Treo 800p. I'd expect Palm to "hog" a tweaked version of Google Maps supporting live GPS functionality for inclusion in the ROM of that device.
All speculaton, mind you, but still a good way for Palm to send Garnet out with a bang instead of a whimper and good practice for the Google team to work alongside an, ahem, "hardware company".
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Awesome Program!
RE: Awesome Program!
All sheer speculation on my part but Palm might have figured out that between a larger/higher-res screen, built-in wi-fi, and integrated GPS, GPS was the easiest/safest thing to do when taking into consideration the desires of the carriers, battery life issues, and the limitations of Garnet. And Palm HAS been pushing GPS bundles and peripherals for some time so I've been expecting Palm to integrate GPS into one of their devices for a couple of years now.
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RE: Awesome Program!
Chips are shrinking all the time, and this was a year ago. Looking forward to the day it's built in.
RE: Awesome Program!
Did they add proxy support?
crashed my treo 680
crash my treo when I try to leave google maps
and after I reset the software, it can't be opened ...
Love this app
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RE: Love this app
Really cool though, but how do they make money on it?
RE: Love this app
Pretty soon most phones will come with Gmail and Google Calendar as standard.
In short: Google is King.
RE: Love this app
I wondered about that too. Maybe they just see it as another method of herding more people into using their search engine, and being exposed to their ads. Do businesses pay to have their contact details (as in phone number and website, not just address) listed on the maps? Anyone?
RE: Love this app
Look at what superbowl advertisers pay for 30 seconds of bombarding one channel of TV with their "message" to anyone watching... and you can see it's a little more efficient to simply get inside *your* brain and emotions, figure out what and where you go - then use that information to "suggest" stuff for you to spend your time and money on. These are just baby steps right now.
So is it useful for Google to "give away" stuff that just happens to feed data into their unregulated database covering you (they seem to tie it in with your phone number and/or IP)? Apparently.
That's how they can build a great app like this and afford to give it away. We are *not* their customers, any more than we are the commercial broadcaster's customers - our *attention* is the product and the customers are the advertisers and government.
Damn.. It's missing two things I really wish it had
It's a great program. An excellent one, but i just really wish it had two little things:
1. Support for KML files
2. Unlimited zoom - it only lets you zoom into the highest resolution satellite images avaliable for an area. Now granted, if you zoomed more, it would just be enlarging the images without adding any detail, but it would mean a bit less squinting.
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Wow. What Support.
Hey Google. Are you interested in buying 75% of a smartphone hardware company?
Pat Horne