Disapointed with new Garmin
I bought it in Palm Springs a few weeks ago. Have made our way through Yuma/Mesa/Tucson and Tombstone. Out of 20 addresses it has been wrong a third of the time. Guiding us a mile off at times. For ...
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BarabooBob wrote:
I have a question about using cell phones as a gps. Does the gps function work when there is no cell phone service? I am a dinosaur and have a flip phone so just asking.
It depends.
If you have good internet service when you initiate the trip on the phone, it downloads the route and will work just fine.
If you don't have internet service when you initiate the trip, it doesn't work at all.
However, there is a work around. If you know you are going to need it in an area where you may not have internet service, download the area map ahead of time. That way, it will work just fine even when you don't have internet service. We recently spent 4 weeks driving around Europe. My cell phone worked flawlessly, but before I left one area, I downloaded the map of the next area we were going to.
