Horizons Unlimited - The HUBB - Best smartphone for gps use?

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Originally Posted by mossproof (Post 513685)

I'm still using Viewranger on my phone, purely as a gps with UK os maps on, but I'm put off by all the extras which appear to be trying to create some sort of wierd lifestyle constant "monitor me and see how wonderful and adventure packed my life is" cr#p. Call me an old curmudgeon!
I've been pointed towards Mytrails (?), which my mate suggests is simpler and geared less towards the lookatme facebook generation. I have yet to check it out as what I've got works.
With the appearance of more/better model-specific hard cases, maybe ruggedness has become less of an issue?
Sort of off topic, but still part of the conversation I hope.
Ride safe,
Simon.

Thanks!
Yes, I'm wary of viewranger which does indeed want to suck me into their online community.
My short experience with them is that downloading maps is overly limited to 10285 tiles per day - sounds a reasonable limit but when zoomed in that daily allowance can be consumed quickly.
Also, I think Viewranger is taking it's maps from Mapquest so ........... might as well just use Mapquest directly??
I shall probably delete it soon, especially since you have introduced me to a new "love of my life", mytrails - I've started experimenting with it and it does appear to be very straight forward, although there is some function buried in there related to registering, I think.

Currently, I use Mapfactor Navigator (MN) as a general "point and shoot" sat nav capability and it works just fine for that; downloading OSM is done simply - name a country and you can have it basically with no mention of tiles.
On the downside, I have never spotted a means of retaining tracks with MN. It may be there, but I haven't come across it.