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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow" data-source="post: 1252750" data-attributes="member: 7123"><p>My general question is this: <em> <strong>Are they, or are they not making leaps and bounds in <u>user-friendliness / intuitiveness</u> and screen advancements now and in the last 3 years</strong>?</em></p><p></p><p>My situation is this: Have a Lowrance I-Finder which I got 2 or 3 years back. Also paid another $100 for the "Freedom Maps" for Okla/Tex/Louis/Ark, etc. area of the US, for more detail on streams, topography & such.</p><p></p><p>Now, this GPS device has a lot of great features. BUT, it's terribly non-intuitive & disorganized from a big picture perspective. Without the book, it's pretty hopeless, and I have to review the book regularly to remember how to access various menus and features.</p><p></p><p>Now, my I-phone also has a GPS, and it's many many times more intutive / user friendly in terms of zooming in & out, menus, screen, etc. So now I'm spoiled by today's smartphones.</p><p></p><p>But, problem is, some of the places I'll be hunting this fall have no signal for AT&T; plus, I don't get the elevation topography lines on the I-phone like I do from the freedom maps.</p><p></p><p>So, bottom line, my Lowrance I-finder is say, perhaps 5% of the intuitiveness / user-friendliness / ability to figure out features and how to use them without the manual, if you consider the I-phone to be 100%. Maybe not that bad, but you get the idea.</p><p></p><p>So, are TODAY's 2010 GPS units available from Lowrance, Garmin, and others, would you say, closer to 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 90% of the intuitiveness of modern smartphones like Android phones and I-phone?</p><p></p><p>I.e. Worth upgrading now or not? Are they leaps and bounds above those sold 3 years ago, not in strict GPS-features terms (like accuracy, detail, waypoints & trails, etc.), but things that I mention (intuitiveness), plus screen size and brightness/viewability in bright light (that's important), battery life, processing speed, seamless integration with desktops/laptops, etc., etc?</p><p></p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow, post: 1252750, member: 7123"] My general question is this: [I] [B]Are they, or are they not making leaps and bounds in [U]user-friendliness / intuitiveness[/U] and screen advancements now and in the last 3 years[/B]?[/I] My situation is this: Have a Lowrance I-Finder which I got 2 or 3 years back. Also paid another $100 for the "Freedom Maps" for Okla/Tex/Louis/Ark, etc. area of the US, for more detail on streams, topography & such. Now, this GPS device has a lot of great features. BUT, it's terribly non-intuitive & disorganized from a big picture perspective. Without the book, it's pretty hopeless, and I have to review the book regularly to remember how to access various menus and features. Now, my I-phone also has a GPS, and it's many many times more intutive / user friendly in terms of zooming in & out, menus, screen, etc. So now I'm spoiled by today's smartphones. But, problem is, some of the places I'll be hunting this fall have no signal for AT&T; plus, I don't get the elevation topography lines on the I-phone like I do from the freedom maps. So, bottom line, my Lowrance I-finder is say, perhaps 5% of the intuitiveness / user-friendliness / ability to figure out features and how to use them without the manual, if you consider the I-phone to be 100%. Maybe not that bad, but you get the idea. So, are TODAY's 2010 GPS units available from Lowrance, Garmin, and others, would you say, closer to 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, or 90% of the intuitiveness of modern smartphones like Android phones and I-phone? I.e. Worth upgrading now or not? Are they leaps and bounds above those sold 3 years ago, not in strict GPS-features terms (like accuracy, detail, waypoints & trails, etc.), but things that I mention (intuitiveness), plus screen size and brightness/viewability in bright light (that's important), battery life, processing speed, seamless integration with desktops/laptops, etc., etc? Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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