Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions

From	keithr <no-one@nowhere.com.au>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions
Date	2015-12-11 20:20 +1000
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On 10/12/2015 9:41 PM, Petzl wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:27:42 +1000, keithr <no-one@nowhere.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> On 10/12/2015 3:24 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>> keithr <no-one@nowhere.com.au> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>
>>>>> The other real downside with google maps
>>>>> is that it burns up the battery at a hell of a
>>>>> rate. Not yet clear exactly why, whether it
>>>>> keeps the screen turned on and that is what
>>>>> is doing it or what. No biggy in the car as
>>>>> its easy enough to power the phone from
>>>>> the car to fix that. But it did that when
>>>>> coming into town on the bus last night too.
>>>>> Mega thunderstorm building up and I was
>>>>> watching that on the phone and having
>>>>> another look at google maps updating
>>>>> arrival time as the driving behaviour changes.
>>>>> The dunny on the bus was busted so he had
>>>>> to do an extra dunny stop. I hadn't realised
>>>>> that the bus basically pulls up at all but the
>>>>> most tiny towns just in case someone wants
>>>>> to get on.
>>>
>>>> Battery use is nothing to do with Google maps as such,
>>>
>>> We'll see...
>>>
>>>> any app that uses the GPS is a battery burner.
>>>
>>> Yet MapMyWalk which I use every time
>>> I walk for exercise doesn’t run the battery
>>> down so fast and it is using the GPS as well.
>>>
>>> But it doesn’t keep the screen lit.
>>>
>>> google maps sometimes does and sometimes
>>> doesn’t, and I bet that has a significant effect
>>> on the battery because otherwise there would
>>> be no reason the screen blanks quite quickly
>>> unless the app decides to keep it lit.
>>>
>>>> Its just the way it is with GPS.
>>>
>>> Its more complicated than that in fact.
>>
>> Dunno, every GPS application that I have ever tried has used battery
>> like it was going out of style.
>>
>> I tried Google maps on my Nexus 5 running Android 6.01, it has voice
>> guidance, and diagrams of the next intersection, I don't know about lane
>> guidance, I'll try that next time I go to town. It looks like they work
>> a whole better on Android than IOS, not that surprising really.
>
> Seems to my to have a mobile on 8 hours continuously he did well?
> Doubt if mine would last that long, there was something wrong with the
> vehicles cigarette lighter power supply which didn't help.
> Then come the problem of a stranger in Sydney trying to recharge his
> phone.
> No help from cityrail morons who have a mobile recharge station on
> platform one, not knowing they did.
> He did find one at UTS library pretty quick.
> Rod excelled at doing very good, without the aid of a (flat) smart
> phones help.
> Face it Rod's a genuis.
> --
> Petzl
> "Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid."
>
You are taking the piss out of him aren't you?

I've navigated around Tokyo with just a piece of paper written in 
Japanese, Sydney is a piece of piss.

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                Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 17:34 +1100
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                Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 22:33 +1100
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