For those of you getting excited by the prospect of the GPS-enabled iPhone, here’s a quote from David Pogue of the NYT: “Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do with the G.P.S. According to Apple, the iPhone’s G.P.S. antenna is much too small to emulate the turn-by-turn navigation of a G.P.S. unit for a vehicle, for example.”
Will be very interested in the feedback we get as users start to try to use iGPS. My point that a separate Bluetooth unit is a better option (better accuracy, better battery life, small package, cheaper), may still be valid.
Apparently, the “no turn by turn” thing isn’t strictly accurate, as various people are developing turn-by-turn apps for the iPhone (I got one on Friday. I am a sad geek) the main problem ends up being sending all the map data.