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Longboarders with smartphones!!!!! Have a look...

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Billek
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I was hiking up a hill today and when I got to the top, a great idea struck me. "Hey, download a gps speedometer for your wonderful, crack cocaine-like Droid X". I then downloaded 'speedview' for droid and shit son, this little bugger is packed full of shit i didn't even know I wanted. I bet even you iphags can hop off the dick long eno



ugh to 'find an app for that'.
Aug 11 2010 11:27PM
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GORlLLA
Posts: 1950 - Karma: 45
Can I still use this app if I don't longboard?
Aug 11 2010 11:28PM
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.AR6rider.
Posts: 15976 - Karma: 8,799
Nope, sorry.
Aug 11 2010 11:29PM
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ButteredToast.
Posts: 6459 - Karma: 2,570
No.


Unfortunately I have a BB Curve and it doesn't do GPS.


I'll never know how fast I'm bombing a hill :(
Aug 11 2010 11:29PM
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icantskiiFILM
Posts: 2113 - Karma: 140
ur dumb. i have an iphone. i just downloaded an app..called.. SPEEDOMETER. so suck my dick
Aug 11 2010 11:32PM
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ChocolateMilk.
Posts: 1129 - Karma: 220
You forgot /rant
Aug 11 2010 11:35PM
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BootySpunk.
Posts: 8148 - Karma: 84
So....how fast did you go?
Aug 11 2010 11:44PM
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yourthemannowdog
Posts: 4541 - Karma: 313
he topped out at 21 mph
Aug 11 2010 11:46PM
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Balzberg
Posts: 538 - Karma: 470
just downloaded that, ive gotta try it while skiing
Aug 12 2010 12:00AM
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pelle_munch
Posts: 4110 - Karma: 503
Daaayyuuumm.
Aug 12 2010 12:02AM
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jayamait
Posts: 2567 - Karma: 1,347
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Aug 12 2010 12:02AM
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SirFaceRager
Posts: 256 - Karma: 30
I have this app! CLAMI
Aug 12 2010 12:04AM
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KarmaInitiative
Posts: 2028 - Karma: 174
theres like a million apps like that for iphoen
Aug 12 2010 12:32AM
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Billek
Posts: 5665 - Karma: 98
Im not saying that you can't get it on the iphone... I just don't like them.
Aug 12 2010 1:19AM
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baethoven
Posts: 4953 - Karma: 332
just curious as to why not?
Aug 12 2010 1:24AM
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yourthemannowdog
Posts: 4541 - Karma: 313
he is a mac fanboy, but instead of loving macs he loves microsoft. He makes fun of people who use apple products, yet people make fun of him for using microsoft products, and people believe there company is better and we run in circles
Aug 12 2010 1:53AM
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Balzberg
Posts: 538 - Karma: 470
I'm a mac fan, ive got an htc evo, but a mac laptop
I bought the htc evo cause when you look at all the features and stuff they are a copy of the iphone, and there cheaper
Aug 12 2010 12:41PM
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123+ski
Posts: 2832 - Karma: 581
some kids i know did this skiing, but they couldn't figure out how to turn off the phone lock and it would stop recording and go to standby mode after a minute
they were still pushin 70 tho
Aug 12 2010 1:28PM
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stalefish.
Posts: 464 - Karma: 79
omg shut up
Aug 12 2010 2:08PM
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Alex_G
Posts: 11902 - Karma: 1,018
ha thats sick i wanna use that for skiing
Aug 12 2010 2:31PM
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sndyrvr
Posts: 684 - Karma: 119
FALI
Aug 13 2010 3:26PM
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Thenowhereman42
Posts: 5682 - Karma: 65
Have a friend follow you in a car and hold a steady speed behind you. Not the most scientific but I'm claiming 31mph.

Would be awesome for skiing though. I have zero frame of reference for how fast I'm going on skis and I've always wondered.
Aug 13 2010 4:43PM
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matt.s
Posts: 2502 - Karma: 93
how do these speedometers work? wouldnt they be inaccurate, due to the fact that they track your horizontal movements, but wouldnt it be hard for them to track vertical distance?
if it is only measuring horizontal distance, and you are going down a steep hill, you would probably be going faster than it says right?
Aug 13 2010 4:50PM
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SteezyOhio
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coooool! having a iphone makes you the shit instantly. it also makes chicks randomly have sex with you and suggests that you have oodles of money. ass
Aug 13 2010 4:54PM
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Billek
Posts: 5665 - Karma: 98
I believe that it takes the grade of the terrain into account. I'm saying this because it displays your altitude along with speed. That would simply add another variable into the speed calculation, so it seems reasonable that it would work in such a way.

This is purely speculative, I honestly have no idea how it works. I know it works well though because I drive with it at night and it matches my cars' speedo. The Speedview app has a feature that puts a reversed speed/direction/altitude reading on the phone, and I can put it on my dash and the display reflects off of the window like a heads-up display. (FUCKING BADASS!!!!)
Aug 14 2010 3:30PM
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Darth_Veeder
Posts: 1054 - Karma: -26
this. thats what I do
Aug 14 2010 3:33PM
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mike91129
Posts: 777 - Karma: 43
flerp
Aug 14 2010 3:35PM
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Shreddysaurus
Posts: 2120 - Karma: 59
Iphones suck cause sprint sucks.
Aug 14 2010 3:37PM
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1337
Posts: 31046 - Karma: 29,167
sprint?
Aug 14 2010 3:39PM
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Shreddysaurus
Posts: 2120 - Karma: 59
At&t sorry mr. grumpy gills
Aug 14 2010 3:43PM
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littlefirsty
Posts: 372 - Karma: 19
so i work at a veizon store and for those people that think they are the shit because they have an iphone $g or actaully any iphone. News Flash the iphone isnt the number 1 phone in america. its the number 5. and the listing goes
evo- Sprint (1st 4g phone)
droid incredible-verizon
droid x-verizon
and the droid- also VERIZON
so the iphone can suck verizons balls
o and the droid can run widgets. which the iphone can't

FTW
Aug 15 2010 9:28PM
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Benson23
Posts: 1713 - Karma: 15
Droids are that sick eh? my contract is running up soon and I was looking into them despite pressure from my buddies to fork up cash and get an iphone or a blackberry.
Aug 15 2010 10:31PM
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littlefirsty
Posts: 372 - Karma: 19
Iphone 4G V. Droid
When u buy a phone and u want ur phone to be slow, drop many calls with bad coverage, have many software problems and hardware problems as well as not being able to use widgets. get the iphone. but i think its pretty clear what phone is better. droid
Aug 15 2010 10:38PM
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skithesprings
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[claim] ive hit 46 mph [/endclaim]
Aug 15 2010 10:47PM
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JStrathern
Posts: 8747 - Karma: 1,536
Yes they really are amazing, my dad has the iPhone and I have the Droid, and I like mine much more.
Aug 15 2010 10:47PM
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littlefirsty
Posts: 372 - Karma: 19
same deal at my house droid ftw
Aug 15 2010 10:52PM
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gstaff
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best idea ever
Aug 15 2010 10:54PM
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[-mvee-]
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whats really amazing is having the bb storm 2 and hating it.
Aug 15 2010 11:22PM
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Thenowhereman42
Posts: 5682 - Karma: 65
I can't even imagine that, the difference between 20 and 30 is mind boggling. At 20 you might as well be going 5 and at 30 you mights as well be going 100..

Aug 15 2010 11:30PM
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Broseph_Stalin
Posts: 3745 - Karma: 178
[claim] 40 mph [/endclaim]

[slogan] bomb hills not people [/endslogan]
Aug 15 2010 11:46PM
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Deezy
Posts: 4580 - Karma: 1,004
i got clocked skiing once. it was a few years ago, and im faster now.
i was going 81km/h or mp/h i forget but whatever it was i can defs go faster now.
oh and thats just straight down the hill. like bombing for a final kicker.
Aug 16 2010 12:05AM
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chapz
Posts: 10182 - Karma: 66
just downloaded it. will try it out it tomorrow thanks.
Aug 16 2010 12:31AM
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Wolvmatt.
Posts: 529 - Karma: 12
Has anybody taken this with them in their car to test it's accuracy?
Aug 16 2010 12:32AM
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matt.s
Posts: 2502 - Karma: 93
cool story gato
Aug 16 2010 12:40AM
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kootenayklaus
Posts: 3914 - Karma: 2,179
There's an app for that.
Aug 16 2010 2:40AM
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no_steeze
Posts: 23992 - Karma: 4,272
no, iphones no longer do that sadly. but ipads do all of the above!!!
Aug 16 2010 2:44AM
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.JPolster
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yah i use it
Aug 16 2010 2:46AM
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matt.s
Posts: 2502 - Karma: 93
ah. nevermind. i just downloaded a speedometer app and you have to implement vertical distance yourself.
Aug 17 2010 9:38PM
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