Hi, I'm looking for the best mobile phone for OpenStreetMap. Which mobile phone do you think is better for OpenStreetMap?
Things for consideration are: - onboard GPS precision - applications for GPS logging - applications for POI collection - battery life when mapping (how long can you map) Please share any experience that you have with any or even better if you had experience with both of them. I only user iPhone for a short while, and haven't even seen Android for real but I ran Android emulator via SDK to get a feel for it. Here are some of my thoughts... Android positive points: - platform on the uptake, more apps coming every day - nice POI collection app [1] - runs multiple apps at once - quite open platform Android negative points: - less apps than iPhone, both for OSM and general - not so good as multimedia player (video and audio podcasts) - a bit bigger and heavier than iPhone iPhone positive points: - lots of apps, both for OSM and general [2] - CloudMade MapZen POI collector supports for iPhone [3] - multitouch interface - great multimedia player (video and audio podcasts) - nice deal for a 2 year T-Mobile contract iPhone negative points: - runs only one app at once :( - pretty closed platform :( - quite expensive, no carrier in Croatia offers it in contract deals :( [1] http://maps.bigtincan.com/btc-mapper.php [2] http://blog.cloudmade.com/2009/03/19/bring-cloudmade-maps-to-your- iphone-application/ [3] http://mapzen.cloudmade.com/mapzen-poi-collector -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/ linux, blog, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
