How GPS and Smartphones have changed the world…
If you have been under a rock, you don’t know that as of yesterday my family and I live in Seattle Washington. More specifically, we live in Redmond Washington at the moment.
Get Where You Need to Go
We landed at about 7 PM local time last night and quickly collected our baggage and picked up our rental car. Being an ultra techno geek, I had already pre-programmed the address to the corporate housing into the TomTom One XL and stored it in my camera bag. I popped it out, plugged it into the cigarette lighter and stuck the suction cup on the windshield.
Once we had left the garage, I pressed the screen, selected navigate to, and pushed "home" on the touch screen. It took it about 5 seconds and my route was planned and a British woman was telling me where to go. We drove all twenty miles without incident and landed exactly where we needed to be to collect the key. After dropping off an extremely travel weary cat, we needed to get to a store quickly to get some cat supplies and groceries.
Enter Smartphone
If you have a phone running Windows Mobile, I hope you are using Live Search. I had installed previously and absolutely love it. I set the local city to Redmond Washington and searched Fred Meyer. I entered the address on the TomTom and less than 5 miles away, again we drove straight to it.
This morning it took us to Starbucks and tonight we added a trip to the Apple Store, one more trip to Fred Meyer and home again. If you stop to think about how far we have come, it’s truly amazing. We come to a city as large as Seattle. I have never been here in my life. I can drive straight where I want to go every time and I never get lost. It’s like I know the area already. Amazing times, don’t you think?
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