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Re: Will GPS work in London?

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Originally Posted by schettj View Post
We went through this with the titan on sprint.

Titan - no.

I brought my AT&T Tilt over, and it worked great. It did have a "native" O2 sim card in it at the time.

Also used an off-the-shelf HP/ipaq navigator (WM5!) which took forever to lock, but also worked.

So aGPS, not so much w/o signal, even in standalone mode

And yes, you'll want to buy those UK maps.

It is VERY worth it to have SOME kind of GPS there. Street signs are a joke, and you really want to be focusing on "STAY ON THE LEFT!!!!" and not a map. A GPS that says "second exit" when you go into the rotary is worth its weight in gold.

Oh, wait. if you are going to LONDON only, forget the GPS. Get a Tube map. Forget the Car.

Tube + walk. It's I think 18 pounds for a 3 day pass. Well worth it.

Enjoy the trip
Thank you- I guess I should have elaborated, I have an Diamond with the GPS enabled, and also have the navigations software igo8 and a London map for it.

I lived in London for 4 years so yeah, the tube is the way to go I'm just going to be traveling to some different areas, and thought it might be handy.
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