Does a regular GPS work better than the ones on cell phones?

Question

I just got a new cell phone with the VZ navigator,but my boyfriend's phone doesn't have it and he wants it. I had thought about getting him a GPS for Christmas,but do they actually work any better than the ones on cell phones,or should he just wait and get one when his phone contract is up? If the regular ones are better,then I want to still get him that.

Answer 1

Regular GPS has more roads listed, and talks to more satellites.
The amount of information it can provide is only limited by what you can upload into it, and regular ones you can place markers as it were to keep track of places, lots and lots of places.

Answer 2

Well, it depends.

As far as working at all, how well the GPS works depends on the GPS chip used, and your antenna/location. So sometimes, the dedicated GPS units seem to work better, but that may well be because you tend to keep these in your car window, while you might have the phone mounted where it's easier to get. These days, there shouldn't be any big difference in the actual ability to pull in a signal.

There are a couple of things that make a dedicated GPS more useful than the typical GPS service, like Verizon's. For one, most GPS units have a larger screen that the usual cellphone screen, so they may simply be easier to see when you're driving. And the VZ Navigator display is very simple, while a modern dedicated display like Tom Tom's (I use Tom Tom software on my Palm PDA for GPS software... it looks pretty much the same on the dedicated units) gives you a really nice 3D-ish display, which is easier to follow... that can actually make a real difference when you're in a complex area.

If you use the phone while you're driving, some phones will have to stop the GPS function while you're talking.

The big one, though, is traveling.. the phones (other than maybe a GPS program running on a SmartPhone) don't store large maps, and they can't plot routes -- they get them from Verizon's server. So if you drive out of "Enhanced Network" range, will lose GPS functions once the data stored in the phone needs to be updated. Dedicated GPS units have the whole country or continent in memory.

Also, Verizon will charge you a monthly or per-use fee for GPS. If this is something he's only going to use rarely, the cellphone might be ok, but if it's a regular enough thing that he's subscribing (or considering) to the monthly service, you could pay for the dedicated GPS in a year or two. They also charge airtime for the time the GPS needs to talk to the server, in addition to the $10 or so per month.

High-end GPS units also have other functions. Some do fairly still stuff like playing MP3s (well, silly if, like most people, you have that in your MP3 player, your cellphone, etc). But they can also get coded information about road conditions, so they can issue travel warnings, direct you around traffic jams, show you gas prices for stations along the road, etc. That's going to cost more, you'd have to ask your dealer just how much.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The actual things work better.

Answer 5

Yes,

because that's it's main purpose.

Answer 6

regular would work a lot better. wouldnt run down your battery either.

Answer 7

Yes it does.

Answer 8

it works either way and all depends how you abuse it.