Apple Looking For iPhone GPS Engineer

Thank you for the post. I don't own an iPod or iPhone, but my next door neighbor stood in line back when to buy several of the original iPhones, so I have at least an awareness of some of the features. I think that adding a SiRF Star III or similar would be a killer application. Personally, I still have a separate Nextel through work and stand alone Garmin StreetPilot 2730 GPS. If you are using a device to navigate and get a telephone call I would think that you have to either take the call and stop navigating or ignore the call and continue navigating. I can clearly see the desire to have an all in one device, though. When I have flown by commercial airliner and packed my StreetPilot it is pretty bulky. When I ride my ATV in rural Minnesota I would like one device that is a GPS and can make telephone calls.

As far as carriers go, I know folks with "jail broken" iPhones on T-Mobile. If the iPod Touch had GPS, I may have bought one by now. That would give a user the ability to go on wifi webpages, navigate, and have music and video entertainment, as well as other applications. The other good thing about Apple iPods and iPhones is it causes their competitors to "step up there game." I actually bought a used Pharos GPS Phone 600 recently. It has a microSD slot and allows me to install Garmin Mobile XT software for navigating, thus avoiding a monthly fee like most telephone carriers. Since it is a Windows Mobile device, there are many applications for it. Apple, on the other hand, is "closed source" rather than "open source". Personally, I prefer "open source", but then that is just me!

Thanks for the input, Jim1348.

When I had Telenav with my cell phone, I believe when I received a call, the navigation quit. However when I receive a call with my Garmin, I believe it still navigates or at least shows the map. I make and receive calls so infrequently. Right now I'm having tons of Bluetooth problems, but that's another post.

Unfortunately T-Mobile isn't available here either. I think the only thing we have here is CDMA.

I would be much more inclined to buy an expensive iPod Touch if there was a great GPS app for it with no monthly fees.

Open source is a good idea. Garmin has already started working on open source software for their next generation of phones before the nuvifone is even out yet. I doubt if Apple will ever go open source.

Maybe after Jobs folds his tent and kicks it. Apple will change it's philosophy, then maybe not.

As long as Apple stick with it's present philosophy (screw thee before thee screws thou), I wouldn't touch a single apple product. The products are just to high priced and not worth the money to me, I'm always willing to wait for the knock off technology at half the money.

iphone should get a garmin app. i dunno why its taking so long for it.

what would have to the NuviPhone?