| QUOTE (qq7 @ June 22, 2013 06:06 pm) |
| Hi, I have a Dakota 20 too, my workflow was that one described by HHL since few months ago. Now I have a smartphone and I prefer to use the Dakota to have more accurate GPS position and using the smartphone to have better images and detail. On the smartphone I have installed c:geo , I load (OTA / wifi) a cache from goecaching.com including images, I save the cache for offline use. When I am searching for a cache I use the Dakota to navigate and the smarphone for cache info. |
I have a Nokia E5 from Straight Talk wireless, through Wal-Mart. This is a GSM/3G unit that uses AT&T's towers (the only carrier I use.)
I use SmartGPX for Symbian S60 Version 3 (S60v3). It does something like that. It reads a raw PocketQuery .gpx file and parses it for offline use. It has a feature, whereby, whilst viewing a cache page on the phone in SmartGPX, one may select Menu-->Download Images, and obtain the image files for that particular cache.
This allows for a decent, offline-but-with-online-image-downloading cache viewing experience. It's okay, but it takes forever to load a large .gpx file. My primary file contains 1,000 caches for my general area. (I just download them from the website, directly, as 500 is the limit for email attachments.)
My GSAK database for my primary cache listings are something like 1370 or thereabouts. My Dakota 20 can only index 2000 cache listings (as I'm sure you're well aware), so I suppose I'm going to have to curb it at some future point when the "local" area I'm using goes up to that amount. It averages about one or two new caches every three months or so. Sometimes less. Sometimes more. It depends on the season.
What I'm really waiting for is the AT&T (USA) version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 when it comes out later this year. I want to see if it has the sensor features of the Galaxy S4, combined with the current feature set of the current Note 2. (I'm planning on buying one phone to last until the cows come home or the technology changes radically enough to have to change. And I'm only going to buy it once, outright, with no contract!)
The E5 works for now, though. Quite well. it just takes about five minutes to fully load the .gpx file from the SD card, from within SmartGPX. I usually just go surf the web, download my email, eat my lunch, or practice my harmonicas. Before I know it, it's done!
You might see how I would like an octa-core (8 core) CPU/GPU combination on my phone.
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Firefishe
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