My Handy Resources

In the last couple of years there have been several phones on the market with built in GPS receivers, some like the HTC Touch could connect via bluetooth to a GPS receiver.

This gave access to navigation software,  no more having separate devices it can now be all in your phone.

In 2008 I purchased  TomTom for my HTC Touch  and used it to navigate around Europe,  the route planning and visuals were excellent.

When I got the iPhone I tried using the builtin “Maps’ app which was Ok for finding out where you were in a city, but it lacked that all essential turn-by-turn commands.

When Apple finally released 3.0 this changed,  TomTom was finnally made available for the iPhone.

I purchased a copy as soon as it was available on the AppStore,  I have used it several times to navigate around Austria and it works well.

It just needs the car holder which TomTom has promised us iPhone users for the last 2 months.

Yesterday I noticed that the iphone.tomtom.com site showed it as available  so I immediately purchased one, now I am pacing up and down by my postbox.

Will let you know if it is worth the wait….

Without these your smartphone is just another dump phone,  you must have that app that turns your phone into a spirit level !

Apple made the iPhone number one with the creation of the “App Store”, developers are falling over themselves to create the must-have-app which could be downloaded by millions of users worldwide.

Other mobile phone manufactures are starting to catch up and it is good to see that downloading apps to other smartphones is now possible.

I would like to say a big thankyou to all the developers out there producing great applications for our phones.

One of my favourite iPhone apps is called “Fahrplan” by Frank Vercruesse and is currently free. As the name suggests it allows you to find out the times of trains/trams/busses from you current location or another, you can even specify a destination. While hanging out at my favourite bar I can lookup the next bus and decide whether to have one more or run for it !

These useful apps is what we need,  my kids may prefer the games but I want apps that add value to my life !