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Originally Posted by Nickles
GPS itself does not require a data plan, but both Google Maps and MS Live Search rely on downloading the maps to your phone.. and for this, yes, you will be charged, as it will be using data. and lots of it.
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Hey Bad, I also don't have an unlimited data plan but a pay-as-you go plan (which you can add to any plan) and there is a very cost efficient GPS prog. I spent a week in SoCal using the GPS daily and used $2 worth of data; its Nav4All (
www.nav4all.com). Many folks don't like it as its not graphics intensive but it gets you where you want to go with turn by turn text to speech. You will need a GPS keep alive (like GPSToday, Holux GPS view, or others) but its very accurate. Steep learning curve as not much documentation but I'm very pleased with it. Usually I'll start on WIFI at home or in a cafe and generate the route and then its totally free! If you miss a turn and it needs to recalculate its just pennies of data... Of course YMMV but I'm quite pleased.