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TomTom Go and the diminishing cost of live traffic data when driving

May 5, 2015

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday with Tomtom Go you pay 20CHF per year for the maps and traffic information. When I first bought the TomTom Europe apps for iOS and Android they cost about 170CHF an operating system.Â If my memory serves me well traffic information would cost an additional 100 CHF per year. As a…

Turn by turn navigation with the Nokia N97

Feb 2, 2010

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richard

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night I recovered my N97 after lending it to a friend for a few days and he told me it was too complicated to use, which I do agree with, after seeing how easy the 3gs is, but that’s not the point of this post. Turn by turn navigation is. For…

Three percent of people in Europe use maps on their mobile phone

Aug 2, 2008

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in N95, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to the report, the majority of users — 73% in the United States and 57% in Europe — accessed mobile maps via the handset’s browser. Less than a third of customers in these markets used a downloaded application. Source In a town like Lausanne it would make sense to use…

Sports tracker and Google Earth

Mar 30, 2008

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in fun, N95

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSix thousand steps later and I’ve created yet another track via the Sports tracker application for the N95. What’s fun is that within a few seconds of arriving home I can bluetooth the KML file to my laptop, open it in google earth and I’ve got an arerial view of the…

Sports tracker on the N95

Mar 21, 2008

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in fun, tech related, warzabidul

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s fun to walk fast and far, especially in the countryside where there are fewer people to avoid. I often walk for fourty minutes to an hour at the end of the day to think about the day and process all that’s happened. Recently though I realised one of the shorter…

Tag: GPS

TomTom Go and the diminishing cost of live traffic data when driving

Turn by turn navigation with the Nokia N97

Three percent of people in Europe use maps on their mobile phone

Sports tracker and Google Earth

Sports tracker on the N95