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The camera car you saw might have been an Apple/Tom Tom one.
Ian
Indeed I do know.
It was a Google car it was plainly marked on the door.
Googles system is obviously more mature, and Apple have a lot of work to do to catch up. The wonderfull 3D is spectacular but has only three cities covered in the UK, even then only the centre then they become low res images, small towns are just mush with no value whatsoever.
Apple were too quick to release the maps, there is years more work to do before it can be used effectively nationwide, let alone worldwide.
My over enthusiastic initial reaction has been brought down to earth.
It still dousn't dim my love of Apple products and systems in general, just they have disappointed with the maps.
In all seriousness - I am a great fan of Tom Tom and had their Windows CE app on several devices before I switched to Android. I have recommended and purchased Tom Tom car navigation solutions to several friends and members of the family, too.
In fact Tom Tom is in many ways better than Google Navigation on Android, but there isn't a Tom Tom app for Android and Google Navigation is free. I also used the Nokia Maps navigation support for Nokia phones while I was in Germany a couple of weeks ago and I was impressed with that too; it's probably better than Google Navigation in many ways (it has lane guidance at major junctions, for example, and excellent voice-guidance too.
In all seriousness - I am a great fan of Tom Tom and had their Windows CE app on several devices before I switched to Android. I have recommended and purchased Tom Tom car navigation solutions to several friends and members of the family, too.
In fact Tom Tom is in many ways better than Google Navigation on Android, but there isn't a Tom Tom app for Android and Google Navigation is free. I also used the Nokia Maps navigation support for Nokia phones while I was in Germany a couple of weeks ago and I was impressed with that too; it's probably better than Google Navigation in many ways (it has lane guidance at major junctions, for example, and excellent voice-guidance too.
Ian
I have never used Google for navigation as such, my experience last week was a one off and even then I simply used it so I could identify the nearest street to the destination for TomTom to use.
There is a TomTom app for iPad with 3G but mine is WiFi only so is of no use to me. I suppose I could use the iPhone personal hotspot but having a TomTom proper it seems all a bit pointless.
I used Google maps a lot when I was a rep, I would check out target shops using the street level view, helped to establish whether they were worth pursuing as clients.
patrick, are you on the ipad2 or ipad3? iirc there is a major difference as to which bits of iOS6 show up on each device. e.g. siri does not feature on ipad2, but will on the 3 as does the facetime app.
from what i've seen, most of the functionality in ios6 is geared towards iphones. with the sorry state of the maps 'upgrade', i wonder what else was only half baked in ios6. hence my reticence.
patrick, are you on the ipad2 or ipad3? iirc there is a major difference as to which bits of iOS6 show up on each device. e.g. siri does not feature on ipad2, but will on the 3 as does the facetime app.
from what i've seen, most of the functionality in ios6 is geared towards iphones. with the sorry state of the maps 'upgrade', i wonder what else was only half baked in ios6. hence my reticence.
I am iPad 2, my phone iPhone 3GS, wish I could afford iPhone 5 but have another 10 months to go on my contract, even then may have to settle for a iPhone 4Gs.
I haven't noticed anything else half baked as you put it, normally Apple get things right, (aerial issues of a few years ago accepted) I have no doubt they will get maps right in the end.
Trouble with a high profile organisation like Apple, everything they do hits the headlines, so becomes an even bigger issue.
I see the adverts with people asking their phones where the nearest (whatever) is, and wondered if the "tablets" are able to do this as well
As old age creeps in, I find myself typing slower and using less words, so while I may well have to install "Voice Recognition" onto the PC, if a tablet has it already or "there's an APP for that", I may well venture into yet another unknown world of techy toys...
Haven't updated to ios6, so don't know! Siri was only included on iPhones until the latest os release, and even then only works on ipad3. I have used the Samsung equivalent on my mobile and it's pretty accurate. It requires web access to suss out what you've said, but works well enough for doing txt messages etc.
allegedly the updated Siri gives more control over the iDevice than the previous version, but an iPhone user would be better placed to answer this. I know I can have fun with mates by asking to see how Siri works then yelling "show me p0rn!". They make a rapid grab for the phone to cancel the request
I see the adverts with people asking their phones where the nearest (whatever) is, and wondered if the "tablets" are able to do this as well
As old age creeps in, I find myself typing slower and using less words, so while I may well have to install "Voice Recognition" onto the PC, if a tablet has it already or "there's an APP for that", I may well venture into yet another unknown world of techy toys...
A really quite sophisticated speech recognition system for both dictation and PC control and navigation is built into Windows 7 (and I think Vista) but seldom highlighted. Just look for Speech Recognition in the Control Panel.
A really quite sophisticated speech recognition system for both dictation and PC control and navigation is built into Windows 7 (and I think Vista) but seldom highlighted. Just look for Speech Recognition in the Control Panel.
Excellent - what PC hardware are you using and are you also using a good quality noise-canceling headset microphone?
Ian
Halloween, (I Actually said hello Ian)
As you can see it doesn't perfectly understand everything I say, but with only having just installed it and only using the basic recognition learning it gets about 95% of what I say correct. Which I find quite remarkable.
My desktop computer is a dell Vostro 430 - i7 - 64 bit Pro OS
The headset is an Andrea NC-61 "Anti-Noise" that came with a very old dragon voice recognition system. It's so old the foam around the ear piece is completely rotted away.
I think the thing that has impressed me most of all is that the voice recognition can spell a great deal better than I can, so I am no longer having two correct spelling mistakes...
I also have a pretty bad cold at the moment, so once my sore throat and blocked nose have cleared and I am speaking more clearly, I believe this thing will probably be absolutely brilliant.
I have to say, it really reminds me of those early star trek episodes when they first spoke to the computer and it did their bidding.
I don't know if you are using any of this type of technology, but if you do have the time to try out, it is not only efficient it's very good fun.
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