The new kid on the block in GPS: Topo Explorer

In today’s world we always need to know where we are and where we are going in life. How better to keep this aspect of our life under control than with a hand held map to our complete surroundings. With the advent of the BlackBerry phone and also other 3G models, it has become possible to get hand help Global Positioning Systems installed into our mobile phones and thus we can now have the ability to navigate ourselves to our goals through this tool.

Since it is available free of cost from the internet, this particular application of the BlackBerry is extremely useful and is catching on like wild fire due to its utility and usefulness. There are many software that offer the GPS ability for the blackberry device and most of these are free open source software.

TopoExplorer is a recently released program that revolutionizes the way we use GPS. Let us look at the common methods of obtaining GPS on a blackberry. One way is the usual internet accessed method, but this takes up a lot space and is usually very slow, and since it depends on the internet connectivity of an area, it cannot be used in rural or remote places that do not provide wireless internet access. Another common method is to update the blackberry via its Bluetooth. There are separate Bluetooth based GPS receivers that can be used to obtain information about the surroundings of the person using the software.

A more effective approach is to use a handset or model that already possesses an in built Global Positioning Receiver. But TopoExplorer takes this one step further by eliminating the need for any connectivity whatsoever, by storing information about the terrain and all the different maps of a region in the memory card of the handset itself. This application is compatible with almost all blackberry models that are installed with OS 4.5 or higher versions.

This is an extremely useful user friendly tool that has actually been released only on a BETA testing version with its full and completely functioning version scheduled to release in a few months. The special feature about this software is that it can store information about the place that one is in or even somewhere that one is headed to that does not have an internet connection available on the handset itself and then access that information to display the map. Hence this way, the software can be used even in remote places and also when there are no internet connections available. Already almost half the world, with all the major places have been mapped for the software and the map packages can be easily downloaded from the internet in a simple way.

TopoExplorer Download Website: http://software.crackberry.com/product.asp?id=27021&n=TopoExplorer-for-BlackBerry