What network for holiday phone data use

[Andy Burns]

It's all vectors not bitmaps now (except the so-called satellite view) therefore you can zoom in and out as required.

[Dave Liquorice]

Basic means free when part foa cheap contract...

Offline?

4 GB is a lot of data for ordianry web browsing/email. But not if you are into watching streamed/downloaded video.

Aye, it doesn't take much to bring the mobile networks down to a crawl. 10,000 people all in one place will do it, even if that place has regular gatherings of that size.

[Clive George]

Cheap contract != free - like I said originally, I'm not interested in getting a contract phone.

Probably not.

Streaming video onto a phone isn't going to be that important to me :-)

I remember sitting in Kings Cross when there was a problem with trains - very crowded, lots of people failing to talk.

[Roger Mills]

*And* you can select much bigger areas to download in one go than you used to be able to do.

[Dave Liquorice]

Thanks guys, seems the offline side may almost be useable these days, it wasn't the last time I tried. When I say useable, only for roads, other information on google maps is still very sparse to non-existant.

[nospam]

Do have a look at "Here" maps ... road mapping for most of the world is available to download FOC and, once downloaded, it works off-line. I first used it when it was Nokia Maps on an N95 and on a variety of Android phones since then, currently a Note4 and a tablet ... highly recommended.

[Clive George]

Thanks, I shall take a look.