[Quote]Irrelevant, you just need an offline maps app (eg, TomTom, CoPilot and a billion cheap or free alternatives). The only data GPS uses is for Assisted GPS to speed up the initial acquisition of a satellite lock, and that’s tiny and optional.[/quote]
Aye, someone did recommend one to me but I couldn’t make the blighter work. Mrs Pondo was insistent on a dongle anyway, and it was super-useful getting the train timetable – nice to be able to find ourselves with an hour or two spare and look somewhere else up, or search for a bar or whatever. Think we’d have struggled without the train timetable – we took seven buses/cable cars/trains from Koyasan back to Tokyo and it was totally hassle-free, I think it would have been a struggle trying to work it out on the fly.