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- t4ll3y, on 07/07/2008, -1/+76This would be useful if I owned a car. Or an iPhone.
Being broke SUCKS. - RubberBinder, on 07/08/2008, -0/+28LOL the company also has an app called G-Spot.
http://www.posimotion.com/index.php?argv=gspot - Thomaschaaf, on 07/08/2008, -0/+20The GSpot pictures weren't what I expected..
- syntheticfth, on 07/08/2008, -0/+12vaporware
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -1/+12Or you can do what I do, and park in the same space every time.
Spot's taken? ***** it, I wait. Not gonna risk getting lost. - jpaolini, on 07/08/2008, -0/+10The iPhone 3G has "real" GPS which should be accurate to ~5 feet. The current one does not and only knows your location based off cell towers.
- Nicksname1, on 07/08/2008, -4/+14Oh it's compatible just follow these instructions:
Step 1: Toss the Blackberry gently into the air preferably over a hard surface. The higher the toss the more effective it will be.
Step 2: Repeat first step as needed or once the screen is cracked, broken, or inoperable. Then take out your Sim Card if it has one and throw that piece of junk away.
Step 3: Goto your local AT&T store and shell out some really serious ca$h. (I know it seems crazy but trust me it's going to work.)
Step 4: Take your iphone home and marvel at the awesomeness.
Step 5: In 3 days follow Step 1 but this time with your iPhone. Then go back to AT&T and demand that you need a new iPhone but this time you want 3G and you want it for less money.
Step 6: Install G-Park. Enjoy! - numerous6, on 07/08/2008, -0/+9I would get more use of an app that finds car keys.
Forgotten where I parked = 1 maybe 2 times in my driving life.
Forgotten where I placed my car keys = twice a month for 12 years = 2x12x12 = 288. - hollywoodphony, on 07/07/2008, -4/+12Not to be a negative Nancy, but if you park in a multi-level parking garage, it won't tell you what floor you're in, right? And that's if the gps can get a reading anyway. I think the best method for me is to say the level and section number into my ***** Razr voice recorder, which an iPhone doesn't even have, right?
- elfuego, on 07/08/2008, -0/+8Are we actually getting 500+ diggs for, essentially, being able to set a waypoint on GPS? This might've been news in 1994. Maybe.
- worminater, on 07/08/2008, -0/+7any decent gps has accuracy within 3-5 feet; fairly crappy ones within 15
- nju0843, on 07/08/2008, -2/+9Why would the iPhone have a ***** Razr voice recorder? There will be (are already?) iPhone applications that can record voice.
- fathermarlow, on 07/08/2008, -0/+6Sounds like a case of Inner-city pressure brother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wqfcwgT0Ds - Pandalume, on 07/08/2008, -0/+5Or look at the level and section number and then (gasp!) remember them...
- airj1012, on 07/08/2008, -1/+5If this worked really well this would be a great idea. However, I assume most people have trouble remembering what floor they've parked their cars on in parking garages. I doubt this will work through the many layers of concrete and will be fairly ineffective.
- JasonCox, on 07/08/2008, -1/+5I've needed this for years...
- admdrew, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4It's probably more useful in an unfamiliar place where it could be easy to lose track of where you parked at.
And I'm guessing most people who have an iPhone or other expensive cell phone will not forget to bring it with them ;) - inactive, on 07/08/2008, -1/+5If you always park in the last row, it's always the last to be filled, and you get some exercise as well.
- bradleyland, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4Ever been to a major league baseball game? How about a football game? Ever park in remote parking at an airport? These parking lots are huge, and frequently, you park during the day, and return at night. It can be very hard to find your car.
I worked at the Super Bowl back in 1999. Staff had to park at a horse track, several miles away, where we were transported to and from via bus. When we got there, they had signs and staging areas set up for registering all the people that were working. When we returned, they dropped us off at an entirely different point, and everything was gone. No signs, no structures. I used some of these structures as a reference point, only to find out that they were temporary. I was three hours from home, searching for my car in an unlit parking lot at some time after midnight in Miami, FL. Frantically walking the rows for an hour and a half, pushing the panic button on my key fob, desperately hoping for my horn to go off any moment. And I wasn't alone. There were at least 15 of us at the time (this was before the game actually got out), all lost and looking for our cars. Once one of us found our car, we would help the others by driving people through the lot, looking for their cars. I didn't leave the track until 3 AM.
I would readily paid $600 for a device that could locate my car, iPhone or not. - inactive, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4Heh...my girlfriend looks at the bills from FasTrak for my bridge tolls on the Golden Gate and she's always like, "You need to tell your psychiatrist about this. You ALWAYS go through booth #3!" I just let her rant about it for a while because it somehow reassures her that I'm OCD and she's sane. But lane #3 runs straight into the Park Presidio exit without having to merge and I hate that bumper-cars nonsense when everyone is pulling away from the toll booth and fighting to change lanes. So yeah, I'm OCD a little...sure, I guess. But (so far, at least) I haven't had any collisions trying to get to 19th St. from the toll booth and after a nice long drive in bumper-to-bumper Marin County traffic I'm not at my best, anyway.
- ExSlashdotter, on 07/08/2008, -1/+4No way! With a GPS device, you mean you can mark a waypoint and then navigate back to it later? Holy crap!! /sarcasm
- likwidfuzion, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3I've never found it myself.
- veriix, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3This article has made me lose a little faith in humanity. I mean come on people, using a gps to find their car? The only place I could see justifying that would be in a parking garage and odds are the signal won't work there.
- Icetype, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3I was hoping it was some sort of Grace Park screensaver.
- ZachSka87, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2I learned something today. Parking garages do indeed form a Faraday cage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage#Real-wor ... - huongdu, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2You'll need more than GPS to find one of those
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2With a location error in a concrete parking structure of less than 100 yards! ;-)
- anshuman, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2But i have WinMobile :( .... Android phones.....where art you bro ? :^(
- Grimdotdotdot, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2So the n95 has been able to do this for how long? FFS, fanboys.
GPS DEVICE TAKES YOU TO SPECIFIC PLACES!
Please. - aenegeling, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2hahaha brilliant
- RexStJames, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Yup, I have a Garmin Nuvi 7 series that has this feature. Very handy.
GPS has no trouble getting you within 10 feet of your car and really, how close do you have to be before you can use your eyes? 50 feet? - ftx437, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Blackberry has had an app like that for a while now
- colthered, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Great so when you get mugged, the scummer would have you phone and you car
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -1/+3If you park in a multi-level parking garage GPS probably won't even work - it's rebar and concrete which basically makes every floor above you a Faraday cage. However, in that case you can just use the included Notes application and enter the floor number - or if you don't even have an iPhone, write it on a napkin or even the back of your hand.
- pciulla, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2woah!
- tells, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2This would only be useful if I were drunk..
- Applied, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2Yeah, really damn useful when you park in a garage with 7 floors! How does latitude/longitude help you any??
- worminater, on 07/08/2008, -2/+3chances of getting gps signal in middle of giant concrete parking garage?
- ZachSka87, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1http://www.keyringer.com/
- repairman2003, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Yeah, you'd think that if you're going to spend $10,000+ on a car that you'd at least be a little bit more responsible
- bobdobolena, on 07/08/2008, -2/+3What is a G-Spot?
- 1platypus, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Wow... That was intense... I'm sorry.
- tizzleG, on 07/08/2008, -2/+2Unless you're old, or a girl, how stupid can you be to forget where you parked?
- texref, on 07/09/2008, -0/+0Just take a picture of the closest floor / parking marker to remember your spot
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -5/+4I don't know if the new iPhone has "real GPS". The cell tower triangulation might get you within a few blocks but even GPS without WAAS should get you close enough to the car that if you have keyless entry you should be able to beep it from the keychain. GPS with WAAS should get you pretty much standing in front of it (3 meters).
Apparently some of the newer Garmin car GPS systems automatically remember the current location when disconnected from the windshield mount to find your parked car. I just happened to find that out when I was looking for GPS accuracy numbers :) - aussieaubs, on 07/08/2008, -2/+1i tell you what sucks - not having MASSIVE hands like the person modelling this iPhone.....
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -2/+1This is great. I really think the little things that the iPhone will allow us to do will be what makes it an incredible device. Opening it up to developers is key.
- 1platypus, on 07/08/2008, -2/+0When are you going to learn that nobody cares about your n95.
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