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Aaron Shirley

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What kind of cell phone do you have?  

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  1. 1. What kind of cell phone do you have?

    • I have an iPhone
      47
    • I have a Blackberry
      29
    • I have another smartphone
      6
    • I have a cell phone, but it's not smart
      23

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Aaron Shirley Guide

Aaron Shirley

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Just curious, as I know lots of anglers with Blackberry's, but only one angler with an iPhone.

 

What kind of cell phone or smartphone do you have?

 

If you have an iPhone, you will want to check this link out! Navionics Mobile

 

Aaron

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Aaron Shirley Guide

Aaron Shirley

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How come the poll features don't work in this forum? Tried for the life of me and can't get it to work.

 

Nevermind, finally got it to work. i had to enter the same question in two seperate fields.

 

Aaron

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diggyj Guide

diggyj

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I heard from friends that the Canada App is a waste of money. Lots of lakes missing. Not a lot of detail for Lake Ontario. Im curious if it has Simcoe, Scugog, Rice, etc...I would buy if it has Rice Lake for sure.

 

I sent Navionics an email requesting a complete list before I purchase but they never got back to me so I guess I will not purchase at this point in time.

 

Dirk

lookinforwalleye All Knowing Angler

lookinforwalleye

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My Son has an i phone and he downloaded the app and we used it on Balsam Lake last year what I noticed is the GPS function would not work while the boat was going, other than that it was okay given the price.

 

I wish there was something similar for Blackberry.

fishinfool Almost a Guide

fishinfool

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I use the Blackberry Bold but my son has an i-phone and loves all the apps.

I find the BB works great for texting, messaging and everything else business related, but I wonder if

I am missing something?

 

anybody??

cityfisher Guide

cityfisher

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I use the Blackberry Bold but my son has an i-phone and loves all the apps.

I find the BB works great for texting, messaging and everything else business related, but I wonder if

I am missing something?

 

anybody??

 

I have a New Blackberry Bold for work and my own personal Iphone.

Iphone can do everything the BB can but better:)

BillM Imperial Angler

BillM

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My Son has an i phone and he downloaded the app and we used it on Balsam Lake last year what I noticed is the GPS function would not work while the boat was going, other than that it was okay given the price.

 

I wish there was something similar for Blackberry.

 

The iPhone doesn't have a true standalone GPS receiver.. It still needs a data signal in order to triangulate your position. It has aGPS, which is useless out in the boonies.

lookinforwalleye All Knowing Angler

lookinforwalleye

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The iPhone doesn't have a true standalone GPS receiver.. It still needs a data signal in order to triangulate your position. It has aGPS, which is useless out in the boonies.

 

That would explain it I guess!!

DRIFTER_016 Imperial Angler

DRIFTER_016

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I have a New Blackberry Bold for work and my own personal Iphone.

Iphone can do everything the BB can but better:)

 

 

Really?? How does it do at recieving email from a Blackberry business server?? :rolleyes:

The iphone can't do what a Blackberry can in the business world. They are pretty cool personal phones though. ;)

diggyj Guide

diggyj

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I was recently discussing this topic about Navionics for iPhone with a friend and he told me that if your iPhone is jailbroken, you can add an external Bluetooth GPS so you can get a much more accurate position fix.

 

I had a 2G iPhone but recently bought a new 3GS iPhone and I refuse to jailbreak as I was tired of always rebooting and nuking it when something went wrong.

 

If anyone wants the link, PM me as it is on another site. Apparantly the fix works great.

 

Dirk

cityfisher Guide

cityfisher

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Really?? How does it do at recieving email from a Blackberry business server?? :rolleyes:

The iphone can't do what a Blackberry can in the business world. They are pretty cool personal phones though. ;)

 

Iphone can receive email from Any pop3 or smtp server.. I have 4 accounts setup on my iphone ( 2 work - 2 personal)

... Sure you Cant BBM with other Blackberry users but thats about it.,,, text messaging is fast and easy to type...

F7Firecat Almost a Guide

F7Firecat

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I love my iphone, I saw the navioincs app in the app store but I dont think I need it as I already have the sd cards for my GPS.

 

Some more first hand use of this app would be great though.

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scugpg

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I see this has came out for android based phones as well.

 

If someone was only interested in the Trent-Severn (which both chips have), which would be better in theory? The Mobile Lakes, or Mobile Marine? I see the Lakes version has HD maps of some Kawartha lakes, not sure if that is included in the Marine one.

 

Lakes

Marine

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Gregoire Fishing Icon

Gregoire

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I see this has came out for android based phones as well.

 

If someone was only interested in the Trent-Severn (which both chips have), which would be better in theory? The Mobile Lakes, or Mobile Marine? I see the Lakes version has HD maps of some Kawartha lakes, not sure if that is included in the Marine one.

 

Lakes

Marine

 

Just took a quick look at the Canada lakes app. It seems to cover most to the Trent to the bay of Quinte

bdox Almost a Guide

bdox

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The iPhone doesn't have a true standalone GPS receiver.. It still needs a data signal in order to triangulate your position. It has aGPS, which is useless out in the boonies.

That is 100% incorrect. iPhone Gps works independent of a cell signal. All agps does is help triangulate when you're indoors or other times when it can't reach the sat. It also speeds up location when a cell signal is available.

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ColdH20guy Almost a Guide

ColdH20guy

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Hi guys

I have the Samsung Galaxy Smartphone (Android) and love it so far...I have never had an iphone so I cant compare it to them or say it is better etc; I just like mine alot right now.

 

I too saw the Navionics app but it didnt really expand as to what it included..it was either 'Great Lakes' or 'Canada'..I am also interested in areas around Couchiching, Simcoe, 6 mile, Sparrow etc..

I think the app is around $13 so I wanted to find out if the above lakes are covered somewhere in detail before I purchased it..

 

thanks guys for any thoughts..good topic

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Gregoire

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On my iphone I have the great lakes and the canada app. The great lakes app only covers the great lakes. The canada app has a lot of the lakes in southern ontario. I just checked and all the lakes you mentioned are covered. A lot of the smaller lakes are not included though.

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ColdH20guy Almost a Guide

ColdH20guy

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thanks Greg

cheers

Rich

 

(the navionics web site says the Great Lakes one covers the Trent Severn? hope Im not getting confused..but it wouldnt take much lol

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