Anyone use phone GPS for biking?

[Aggie_Ama]

I saw an ad in Bicycling for a GPS application for Blackberry that looks pretty interesting and reasonable. I would rather have a Garmin but right now I don't have a wad of cash. I thought I might try this out though and keep using my Cateye since I already have a Blackberry Curve I carry every ride. Anyone familiar with it? Like it? Think it is worthless?

http://www.trimbleoutdoors.com/TrimbleOutdoors.aspx

[PscyclePath]

I've got a GPS utility on my cell phone that I use occasionally for navigational purposes when I get "lost" somewhere... doesn't have all the mileage/speed features. but sure helps sometimes to figure out which street or road is the right one, or how to get from where I've gotten off to, to wherever it was I was supposed to be going in the first place. (I have a bad habit of always wanting to try out "new roads"... )

[Tuckervill]

I use the Google nav app on my BB Curve. It doesn't have GPS coordinates, and it uses cell phone towers to pinpoint your location. So, if you use "your location" as a starting point, it will say something like, "turn down country road 19..." and three more steps until it gets you to the interstate or major highway. In the context of a 1400 mile car trip, that's okay. On a bike ride, it could be a hindrance.

On the other hand, you can just look at the map it shows to figure out where you are. That has its drawbacks, too, when, in rural Oklahoma, the street signs don't match the street names on the map, but you *know* you were in the right place two blocks ago.

Karen

[Aggie_Ama]

Maybe at $5.99/month I am going to have to be the guinea pig for the board. I could try it for a month, I guess?

[chicago]

I am purchasing a Garmin Edge 705 very soon

[Aggie_Ama]

Well my lack of about $600 bucks is why I am thinking $6 is more my budget. Plus I am going to wait for them to fix all the crud they can't seem to get right on them because I have zero patience.

[uforgot]

I had ATT navigator for a one month trial. Decided I wasn't paying for internet on my phone just for the GPS. I have my son's garmin nuvi right now and it seems to do the same thing the ATT did. No speed or anything, but I have a computer on my bike anyway. Those nuvis run from $100-$200. way cheaper than the $35 month internet/navigator. If you already have the net on the phone, then the $5 per month is certainly reasonable!

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

I haven't heard about Curve specific GPS application stuff like for the iPhone (MapMyRide has an iphone app that i hear works okay). But..maybe it does have something like that for free like iPhone does. ???


I picked up my 705 from CompUPlus for a little under $400 last year (the HR monitor version)...and then later got the street maps for $100 from Garmin.

Those puppies don't have to cost you an arm and a leg.. (though $500's bad enough, I guess! just not as bad as it could have been)