On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Claire Njoki <clairenjoki@gmail.com> wrote:

@Brian

Oh, thanks...

I'm just wondering...is this also possible in Kenya (i.e. the voice
prompts and turn left, turn right thingy)...or does it need some
customised app for our kenyan roads?

On 1/14/11, Roy Michoma <roymichoma@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is app for all Android users:
>
> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=630887
>
> gives you worldwide turn-by-turn navigation with voice ....... Too Cool !
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe
> <blongwe@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Claire,
>>
>> I got lost driving in the middle of Johannesburg on Wednesday night - at
>> 2.30am - if it wasn't for the GPS function on the Nokia E5 I would have
>> been
>> in a real mess.
>>
>> I had already been driving around for 2 hours trying to figure my way back
>> to the house where I'm staying - then I thought to myself, never used this
>> "Maps" application on the phone, let me try it out - luckily I had been
>> messing around with it earlier in the day and had saved a petrol station
>> near the house - it gave me step by step directions: a nice lady voice
>> saying "after 300metres, turn left; after 2 km keep left and take the
>> exit"
>> - until I arrived. Turns out I was more than 30km away from my destination
>> -
>> and headed in the wrong direction!
>>
>> So from that experience, GPS is a must for me!
>>
>> Mblayo
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Claire Njoki
>> <clairenjoki@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> @Washi
>>>
>>> I agree with you...these phones just need to be phones...
>>>
>>> We don't even need GPS...If you are going somewhere you just Go! Why
>>> do you need a GPS?
>>>
>>> If Christoper Columbus had a GPS, he wouldn't veered off in the wrong
>>> direction and consequently he wouldn't have "discovered" America...he
>>> would have ended up in India (which was his original destination
>>> BTW)...
>>>
>>> Therefore live dangerously...get lost once in a while...you might need
>>> the exercise and the fresh air...
>>>
>>> Claire.
>>>
>>> On 1/14/11, Haggai Nyang <haggai.nyang@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > @Collins, yes, but the Korean market only
>>> >
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>>
>>
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