Portable GPS for iPod Touch

[clayinaustin]

I recently got a 64gb iPod Touch. I love everything about it except, it doesn't have built-in GPS.

However, Dual has announced that they will soon be selling a GPS Cradle for the iPod Touch for $180.

You have to download a free Navigation App

I may have to get one!

Consumer Reports Link

 

[Buoy]

Bout a month ago I got an Iphone for about $100, and it does more crap than I know how to use.
It has GPS.
What's so special about this thing you are touting?

 

[clayinaustin]

It has GPS. What's so special about this thing you are touting?

The iPod Touch has everything the iPhone has except 1) a phone, 2) a camera, and 3) a GPS chip.

Many of the iPhone/iPod Touch apps use GPS. This $180 device gives the iPod Touch a portable GPS.

 

[Ange]

Should have gotten a Droid. Look for an app called GeoBeagle. Geocachers use that app for caching. It works on the Istuff I believe.

 

[Ted]

I have both a car and a boat Nav program in my iPhone and they work flawlessly. It is not a huge chart plotter but it will get you there, and the boat one uses Navionics charts which are great. And lots of other stuff uses your position to give you info on restaurants, movies, stuff like that. It is a shame you didn't get the iPhone since it is only about as much as that GPS dealy.

 

[clayinaustin]

Should have gotten a Droid.

I already have a phone. I don't want to swap it for another phone.

I want an iPod with GPS and not have to pay a monthly fee to a call phone company.

 

[clayinaustin]

It is a shame you didn't get the iPhone since it is only about as much as that GPS dealy.

I want to play music with my iPod on my boat. I want to play my iTunes music, XM Radio, and Pandora all through my iPod.

If I tried to do all of this with an iPhone, then the music would stop playing everytime the phone rang. I can't do that.

So, I need a separate phone and iPod.

 

[BY U BOY]

I want to play music with my iPod on my boat. I want to play my iTunes music, XM Radio, and Pandora all through my iPod.

If I tried to do all of this with an iPhone, then the music would stop playing everytime the phone rang. I can't do that.

So, I need a separate phone and iPod.

Clay,do ya'll have WiFi on the lake?
Just trying to figure out how you are going to get pandora on the Ipod on the boat.

 

[BBB725]

I want to play music with my iPod on my boat. I want to play my iTunes music, XM Radio, and Pandora all through my iPod.

If I tried to do all of this with an iPhone, then the music would stop playing everytime the phone rang. I can't do that.

So, I need a separate phone and iPod.

Just set the iphone to airplane mode and it won't ring

 

[clayinaustin]

Clay,do ya'll have WiFi on the lake?
Just trying to figure out how you are going to get pandora on the Ipod on the boat.

Yes. I bought a $30 program that turns my Windows baised phone into a Mobile Hotspot.

I have AT&T, so I can talk and text on the phone and run the hotspot at the same time.

As long as I have a phone tower signal, I have internet. It works great!

Just set the iphone to airplane mode and it won't ring

But, I need to be able to use my phone at the lake. Using an iPhone for both a phone and an iPod won't work for me.

 

[clayinaustin]

Dual GPS at the Apple Store

 

[Bobcat]

I have a compass and signal mirror

 

[MacGyver]

↑↑↑ Bob's signal mirrors are really squashed beer cans :26: