No I haven't really looked at many faqs or much of the documentation for the Android phone for various reasons.
I'm still getting familiar with the Casio rugged phone which is my first touch phone with a lcd screen. Newer cell phones even though they have many new functions and features you can't find with the older cell phones I don't find them to be all that user friendly and easy to use. One complaint is screens and apps keep popping up, some of which is advertising to get you to buy stuff. I prefer to use devices such as a cell phone for more specific tasks and purposes and not to continually deal with changing screens, popup windows, popping up apps, ads, etc. I'm still in the process of removing or disabling unneeded apps and all the clutter. Possibly installing another gui that doesn't continually prompt me for things, switch to other apps, screens, etc. As for Osmand, Osmand+ is installed and running ok with my state and world map. I'm finding to be a good basic map application to run on a cell phone but it's standard maps even though has a "topo" setting doesn't really produce topographical maps. Back Country Topo would be a better choice for topographical maps. However with Back Country from what I've read doesn't have downloadable state or region maps. You first select an area with your finger from a touch screen and then download the area you selected. A large area can take up quite of bit of internal or sd card storage space. My experience with mapping software's over the years has been with PC apps installed from a cd or dvd installed onto a laptop with GPS. Imo pc map apps are still in a different class than Android devices and cell phones with map apps. However the mobile device apps seem to be catching up possibly replacing some of hand held gps devices built only for a singular purpose. I guess it may depend on how much your into mapping. Partially because of the screen size smaller devices don't usually do as well for gps and mapping. A larger screen definitely has it's benefits when used for vehicle navigation. However I have a Magellan Maestro and find it works perfectly for vehicle navigation. In many ways better than a laptop running mapping software. Turns on in a few second seconds producing a map screen with your current location. Has all the features necessary when driving and navigating a vehicle. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
