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Well, Screen capture the item and information, google it and see if it or a better make/brand is on Amazon.
You get the thing you want (the manufacture make a sale) and you get the peace of mind, knowing it will be arriving soon 😊
I wanted to share my findings of this fantastic little app. I have it on the iPhone 5S and I believe it is available on other handsets and makes and models, you would have to check with your App Store for this.
One of the beauties about this app is that it is free, is always up to date and you can also have input on it as you travel.
For example, say you are travelling to London via the M1 and M25, if on the journey there are road works or a traffic accidents, you and other Wazers (that is what people who use the app is called) are able to make announcements to other Wazers.
WAZE gives you multiple routes, which can show you if any accidents or traffic works are on your chosen route. When traveling if an accident or road works pop up you are able to re-direct your route to miss the them, and if you are traveling and your friends to have the app, you can send them the route and destination arrival time. You can even send your current location. It has day and night mode and is quite easy to see with great voice directions.
I’ll add images (screen captures) to show what you can see and how it looks. The only thing I found an issue with the app, is that it can eat data, I have 2gb of data per month and I use this app for no journeys longer than 30 to 60 mins. If you have something like a talktalk £12 a month contract sim where you get unlimited calls, text and data included, it shouldn’t be a problem. I tend to use mine also for areas I am not familiar with or if desperate for a petrol station. It can also be used for finding the closest hospital A&E etc.
This app also has a point system to help you be motivated to use it and as you use it more, and as the more you travel, the more points you get, these means you will get some added extras. I won’t say what they are as this will give you something to look forward to lol 🙂
So, just to recap, this is an excellent satnav with a lot of features, which will help you when travelling long or short distances. You may want to keep an eye on your data usage when using it.
I hope this helps you out and please remember you are responsible for your data usage and and charges you may incure.
I recently updated my mobile phone contract from Orange to EE. This being due to EE now owning Orange and the Orange network being one of the top network coverage companies. When upgrading I had a choice of several phone and from what I could see and being use to Blackberry’s I thought about going for the Blackberry Q10. However, upon checking with various network providers I found Blackberry had changed the way Blackberry Smart phone work. They out do the iPhone 5S in almost every way with longer battery life, qwerty keypad, micro memory card slot to add up to 16gb extra memory, higher processor speed, and much more. This however, though sounding fantastic had it’s down side. You couldn’t make or receive calls through your wireless internet anymore, the cost of the phone was very expensive unless you planned on paying £40 to £60 per month, scrolling didn’t work as well as one would think and there was even less apps in the Blackberry App World with the new software, as well as some other things which escape me at the moment. So, I decided to go with the IPhone 5S. I will point out that even though I use Apple Macs for my computers, as a designer I found them fantastic and easy to work with. I am however not a fan of previous iPhones or the iPad (There are better tablets out there than the iPad, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1) . This is due to the fact that I have been prescient in the apple shop on several occasions where I have seen customer after customer come in and complain about both the iPhones and iPads and how easy they had had problems. My choice however was based not just on my research into the iPhone 5S but also because my partner has the iPhone 4S and as she is a journalist, she uses it for anything and everything, from taking video and photos, to texting, emailing, face timing (video chatting) and even using an app as a satnav etc. My partner allowed me to “play” with her iPhone 4S and see how I got on for an hour or so, and I found I stumbled a few times but found after a couple of hours I could navigate the phone with some ease. So… I went with the iPhone 5S which I earlier mentioned and I have found compared to the earlier models, that it is a work of art, nice feel, not bulky at all, quite light weight I thought, big screen and being able to access Facebook and other websites and forum, including emails and the over all experience I have found a pleasure to use the the iPhone 5S. I have noticed however a couple of things I think could be improved upon from a designers point of view.
1. The battery life doesn’t always last a day. My partner bought me a special “Power Bank” which when you have 20% battery power left, you press a button on the front and it will charge your iPhone 5S battery back up to 100%. Which I thought was amazing for £35 from Mobilebiz in Meadowhall Shopping Centre, Sheffield, but they do have stores up and down the country.
2. Not knowing if I am using my wifi signal or 4G sometimes makes me wonder if I am going to use all my data up, so I have to keep checking my online EE account to make sure not over using it.
3. When trying to set a photo or image as the wallpaper or the lock screen, it enlarges the image or photo to a silly size which you can not shrink. I even edited several images and photos on Photoshop and added them to my phone and it still enlarged them. This is a minor thing but could easily fixed with an update from apple.
And my final comment on the iPhone 5S, is I not only set up this blog account but I am posting my blogs from this wonderful little piece of technology 🙂
BobOnLife 