Battery life just hasn't been a problem for me. For those who spend all their
time using the phone for other things, it might throw battery life over the
edge, but when I'm taking pics, I'm not using the phone for much else. So often
out of cell range, anyway.
Yeah, I don't think tracking takes much juice. You are being frugal.
Probably having the display on and redrawing the map all the time sucks
the battery. Add that to 'normal' use and it becomes a problem.
FYI here is a screenshot of my friends iThingie track (highlighted) and
my Garmin (red). The context was our trail mapping project and whether
or not it would be useful to have people submit iphone tracks...a
resounding NOT.
For most peoples' use however an iphone is just fine.
<http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/iphonetrack.jpg>
And one thing about my stand alone unit vs a car gps is that I have
available a wealth of open source maps of all kinds. Garmin of course is
happy to sell me their $ products and some have attractive features.
However openstreet maps work just fine. For UK, talkytoaster. Emily
guided us through all the roundabouts in the proper wrong direction in a
British accent. No Scottish voice available that I could find.
<http://talkytoaster.co.uk/maps/>
<http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/>
M
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