# This is not the DROID you are looking for.......move along

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**Created:** [October 28, 2009, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/this-is-not-the-droid-you-are-looking-for-move-along/247906 "2009-10-28T07:21:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/this-is-not-the-droid-you-are-looking-for-move-along/247906/82 "2009-11-03T09:59:07Z")

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> [@online photo storage](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/online-photo-storage/25122/13):
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> That isn’t the correct useage of terms there.
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> The gps signal is in fact satilite GPS… good maps and on the pre “sprint navigation” the route as well as the map are fed over the data…
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> In other words, your phone will know your “location” without data signal, but it won’t be able to show you it on a map that you can understand.
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> it shouldn’t take long before these phone can hold enough info to actually store all the info that tom tom or garmin units hold allowing them to be stand-alone without a data signal.

Close enough :lol

> [@Datsun 280Z Restoration (Mother's Day update!) -Shaved Bumper](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/datsun-280z-restoration-mothers-day-update-shaved-bumper/25179/14):
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> Yeah, I don’t see it as too far off either. Hell, someone might right something that can already do it as an app.
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> How much space do you think you’d need to have a full fledged map software on your phone? 100mb? 200mb?

I’m sure its not a case of not being able to fit the actual maps into the memory of a phone, more so the issue of the added cost of doing it compared to keeping all of the maps in a central database that people access when needed.

Course a system like Googles navi has got to require massive amounts of memory with all the different map views and settings it has possible, so its prob a combination of both?

Would be cool if you could download your route that you have planned so its all there on your phone in case you lose signal somewhere along the way. (assuming that this isn’t already possible.)

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