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Poll: Do you use the GPS in your phone?

A lot of middle to high-end phones being sold nowadays come with GPS and/or A-GPS support and I wondered if people really use them at all.

Our poll this time is for phone users — if they use the built-in GPS in their phones. Most of my experience with using GPS is while driving to places I’m not familiar with. Instead of the physical maps (I have one of those EazyMaps), I often Google Maps and GPS to give me some sense of direction.

How about you? Is the GPS in your phone an unused feature or have you found some good use for it? Let me know by leaving a comment and adding your vote in the poll section.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

24 Responses

  1. Avatar for jong de ramon jong de ramon says:

    hi there.

    my company is selling a GPS MAP Application for GPS-enabled mobile phones. we have tested it already to a GPS-enabled mobile phone, even with MYPHONE T33 and its working.

    it has a very wide LUZON MAP, complete and updated.

    u can avail it if u dont want to buy a GPS Car Navigator.

    the SD card is worth P3,800. just visit our office and we’ll make it works with ur phone.

    please message me for more info or call me at 090886*****.

  2. Avatar for Alona Sanglay-Balancio Alona Sanglay-Balancio says:

    Actually im new in this site…and i learn a lot from those hu post their coments&reaxtns.tnx!

  3. Avatar for humblePride humblePride says:

    for geo tagging..
    http://promditarlac.blogspot.com/
    http://humble-pride.blogspot.com/

  4. Avatar for berryboy berryboy says:

    I have a blackberry bold 9000. it has a gps feature but i can’t make it work. it just displays my coordinates as 0,0 and it says it cant find satellites. im here in metro manila.

  5. Avatar for Robert Robert says:

    Abe,
    it is quite useful to have gprs on a mobile phone while using google maps or sth else. but i dont use it that often.mostly when i look for the next coffee shop ;)

  6. Avatar for bj bj says:

    i recently had a trip from manila to pagudpud (by land)
    i’ve tried using garmin on my verzio envii and bought an external bluetooth gps unit overseas.

    the gps unit lasted more than 15 hours without charging.
    but, using external bluetooth gps will eat up the battery of your phone in less than 3.5 hours. i remedied it by buying a car cradle for my wm6 ppc and a power inverter for the charger to the 12v cigar input.

    very useful for out of town trips. it locks with the satellite in less than a minute.

  7. Avatar for Mrpinoy Mrpinoy says:

    Can we use Philippines google mapmaker for GPS? Accurate na kc map dun check it out pwede pa mag edit

    vote: Non user here

  8. Avatar for terence terence says:

    yes i do!

  9. Avatar for iko iko says:

    my phone has GPS and it has the Garmin software for Windows mobile 6. at home it works, like it can detect satellite signal easily, etc, but why would I use it at home right? so last weekend my family got lost driving inside subic coming from ocean adventure and i got excited to finally use my phone’s GPS. i turned it on, and darn, it took 20 minutes before it found our location! nahanap na namin yung exit hindi pa rin siya gumana! plus it drained my battery like i made a 1hour phone call.

    i think the standalone GPS devices are better, but they dont have support for PH maps yet i think.

    sana bumili na lang ako nung EZMap at compass.

  10. Avatar for Gerald Gerald says:

    Actually, I want a GPS device of my own (either on a phone or an actual GPS deviice attached on the dash o just somewhere in the car). But from what I’ve heard, the Phiilippines/Metro Manila isn’t actually accurately mapped out on GPS. And I’m not sure if they update the information there often as we usually have changed in traffic routes here. So, GPS.. maybe in the future. Right now, no.

  11. Avatar for Bon Bon says:

    GPS has real-world uses when you’re in real estate development such as myself. It’s a dead-easy way to measure distances when doing site inspections of large parcels. All you have to do is mark points along the boundary of the parcel and measure the distance traveled.

  12. Avatar for ralph ralph says:

    when i start gps it says “would you like to turn on bluetooth….?” then pag press ko ng on walang nangyari pano ba to..

    unit ko 6120 classic

  13. Avatar for Tina Tina says:

    I agree GPS in other countries would be very useful but I don’t think pinoys would be comfortable using it. I have one but I don’t Use it. :(

    -Tina-

    Http://manilainformer.blogspot.com

  14. Avatar for BigBird BigBird says:

    @rogerd

    Congratulations! Winning the most difficult category in 2times in a row. Wow

  15. Avatar for rogerd rogerd says:

    we used the GPS to win a contest.

  16. Avatar for TechPinas TechPinas says:

    Voted! :) Hehehe.

    www.techpinas.com

  17. Avatar for taksan taksan says:

    @bigbird
    i agree, most people prefer buying phones that are talked about, expensive, and just the “in” thing.

    i bet some doesn’t even know their phone has GPS!

  18. Avatar for BigBird BigBird says:

    CP Products lack demonstrations. People are just darn so excited with cool new gadgets.

    If you where to buy a Car or a wireless electric fan you want to see the demo first before getting 1, similar to SM deptstore demo.

    But now, more on the “WOW factor” or this gatget have it all and not use it.

  19. Avatar for jhay jhay says:

    My phone doesn’t have GPS and to be honest, I see no practical use for it as of now. Perhaps when Google Maps has a more extensive coverage of the Philippines I’ll get a phone with GPS.

  20. Avatar for Paul Paul says:

    GPS? Can we track our cellphones by this feature?
    e.g. Stolen, Lost, etc.

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