Comments on: App Review: Google Maps Mobile (with My Location Beta)

By: Perry Black

Perry Black — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:45:58 +0000

Yes, but even when I take the sim card out of the phone, I still can’t get the map icon to show up…

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:29:56 +0000

Perry,
It says on the download page that “Note: BlackBerry Maps is not supported by AT&T.”. I suspect that is your problem since you’re using an AT&T sim card.
Kelly

By: Perry Black

Perry Black — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:18:44 +0000

Hi, here’s a link to the BB maps downloading page http://www.blackberry.com/devicesoftware/entry.do?code=maps

Since I have a AT&T pay as you go SIM card, I really don’t want to use any data downloads at all since it’s costing an arm..

Thanks

Perry

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:35:28 +0000

Perry,
What exactly were you trying to download? Can you provide me the link to where you had the problem? I don’t have a truly unlimited data plan, either. I have something Verizon calls the “Email and Web Plan” that allows me 5GB of download per month. I’ve never come even close to exceeding that. Do you know the details of your data plan? But you’re right that Google Maps can take more data, especially if you use the Satellite view.
Kelly

By: Perry Black

Perry Black — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:38:04 +0000

Hi, I just got a BB Bold and it doesn’t seem to have BB maps installed. Since I don’t have an unlimited data plan, I don’t want to use Google. On BB’s website I get an error message when I try to download it. Any ideas?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:17:20 +0000

Dan,
Phonetracker (http://www.phonetracker.de, in German or English) is written for phones that run the Windows Mobile operating system, not the BlackBerry operating system. That’s a choice that Ing.-Büro Schmidt made.

Have you read my article on Blip at http://newbbie.com/2008/04/13/app-review-blip%e2%84%a2-share-your-where%e2%84%a2/? You might find that interesting.
Kelly

By: Dan Gutierrez

Dan Gutierrez — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:05:39 +0000

I love Google maps for mobile. I just can’t get lost with it. However, I really would like to see Google maps have the searching cability of cell phone numbers and ploting their locations of the screen. There is a program called phonetracker4 that performs this funtion, but is not avalilable for BBs. Does anybody know why?

Thanks,

Dan

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:48:46 +0000

stardestroyer,
Thanks for sharing the info for Mark and the rest of us.
Kelly

By: stardestroyer

stardestroyer — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:53:14 +0000

For what it’s worth, Sprint does not disable their internal GPS in the Pearl nor do they limit the bandwidth of their unlimited data plans (though I have heard rumors that they’re considering doing the 5GB cap).

To answer Mark’s Question, most providers of CDMA service (and Verizon is a CDMA provider) will not accept phones from other providers on their network. The reason tricks like that work on other providers (such as AT&T and T-Mobile) is that GSM phones use a SIM card to actually provide the interface between the phone and the network…. CDMA carriers do not use SIM cards (which is unfortunate for a whole lot of reasons).

By: Kelly Carter

Kelly Carter — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:47:58 +0000

Wayne,
I see now your email address is from MIT.edu. So it’s natural you’d want to know how I did my calculation. I did say it was “quick-and-dirty,” right? I think I assumed 25k bytes per update every 10 seconds. That was the only assumption. From there I just multiplied your stated usage over 23 days in a month. I rounded up to 0.5 GB. What I would call a “first order” approximation. It at least convinced me it shouldn’t get too close to 5 GB/month.

If you think a better assumption(s) are appropriate, I’d love to compare. Wish we could actually measure it somehow.
Kelly