Anyone currently using their cell phone GPS capability? Do applications like IMAPMYRIDE exist for Verizon phones. I tried hunting through the Verizon web site with very little luck.
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Unless you use the Blackberry Storm, you are pretty much out of luck with the Verizon phones. They lock their phone’s GPS capabilities to pretty much everything but their VZNavigator pay service. Until December, you couldn’t even use the GPS with the Blackberry maps. I plan on dropping my Verizon contract as soon as it runs out because of this.
If you have another GPS enabled phone, but not on Verizon, you can use www.instamapper.com I use this on a $20 mobile phone from Boost Mobile. We have discussed this before if you want more info. I paid $20 for the phone, came with $5 minutes of airtime, I set it up without selecting the daily fee for data service and I never used any of the airtime and had to add more after 3 months. I figure I’ll use this instead of paying to get out of my contract, until it runs out.
You could check out bimactive.com they have a list of phones that work with their app. I used to use it with my verizon phone before I got a Garmin and I was very happy with it.
I was in a T-mobile store a few months back, as the friend I was with was shopping for a new phone there. I chatted with a salesperson about one of their GPS phones and he told me that they disable the built-in GPS hardware in the phone and were selling an external GPS module for an extra $100. I just looked at him in stunned disbelief. Some carriers still don’t get it.
I’ve had the same experience with verizon as other posters in this thread have.
Apps for doing this are plentiful on the iPhone.