Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions
Date	2015-12-11 21:50 +1100
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"keithr" <no-one@nowhere.com.au> wrote in message 
news:dcvmfmFhspU2@mid.individual.net...
> On 11/12/2015 1:37 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "keithr" <no-one@nowhere.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:dct5teFbq9jU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yeah, but the main problem with that story is that
>> a few like MapMyWalk doesn’t, so it may well be
>> that they just keep the screen on so you can just
>> glance at the screen with the phone in a mount
>> on the dash and that its that that chews up the
>> batterys and they don’t care because its so trivial
>> to power the phone from the car.
>>
>>> I tried Google maps on my Nexus 5 running Android 6.01, it has voice
>>> guidance, and diagrams of the next intersection,
>>
>> I didn’t check that because I was driving with the phone
>> actually on the top of the dash since it wasn’t my car and
>> so no proper mount for the phone. I don’t have a proper
>> mount in my own car either even tho it’s a legal requirement
>> in some states like Victoria. Its in the bin under the radio in
>> my car where its handy there to just pick it up when you
>> need to put in a new destination etc and it doesn’t move
>> around on rough roads etc.
>>
>>> I don't know about lane guidance, I'll try that next time I go to town.
>>
>> There certainly wasn’t any on the run in to Central
>> up Southern Cross Drive and then on the Eastern
>> Distributor where its pretty important to be in the
>> correct lane to get onto the Eastern Distributor.
>>
>> The lanes are well marked, but just with the very
>> cryptic ED ONLY painted on the road itself which
>> doesn’t mean a damned thing to someone who
>> doesn’t know that the car should be going down
>> the Eastern Distributor.
>>
>>> It looks like they work a whole better on Android than IOS,
>>
>> That is complete and utter drivel.
>
> And how would you know?

Got an android phone myself, fuckwit.

>>> not that surprising really.

>> Even sillier than you usually manage.

> You find it silly that Google would make their maps work better on Android 
> than IOS?

I know they don’t because its completely trivial
to compare them side by side, fuckwit.

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