All this automatic connections, etc isn’t required and sounds as if it has the potential to run out of control.
I don’t really get this. It’s as ‘out of control’ as you let it be. Why would you want to faff about with cables, downloading, transferring files, installing, etc etc when you can just do it all from the phone? I used to have a pre-“Windows Phone” Windows Mobile device and I miss the ballache of getting apps to actually run about the same as I miss glandular fever.
I suppose you could get ‘trigger happy’, but a lot of stuff is free anyway and you don’t sound like someone who’ll be spunking the GDP of a small Eastern European country on Angry Birds and assorted pish.
So Blackberrys are out of the picture then ?.
I have one as a work phone. As a work phone it’s superlative, but I can’t for a second imagine having it as my primary device.
I also prefer to carry the map of western Europe on a memory card in the phone
There’s a few options here. As an ex-TomTom user, the closest thing I’ve found is CoPilot which is almost as good. You can get TomTom but as it’s about three times the price of CoPilot I’ll take ‘almost’. There’s free options too, But I’ve found CP to be worth the price of admission.