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Win Another Nokia N78 On Giz AU
Posted by Nick Broughall at 10:25 AM on July 14, 2008
Wow! The iPhone hysteria has been a bit insane this past week, hasn't it? Well, to try and counter the madness, we're giving away another Nokia N78 to one lucky reader. Last week's winner was Jon, who make me chuckle with his line about two tins and string - what can I say, I was overtired!
This week, we've got another N78 to give away thanks to Nokia. But this time, the question's a little bit tougher: In 25 words or less, we need you to tell us: "What's the best way you would make use of the integrated GPS functionality on the new Nokia N78?". Answers in comments to this post - I'll be judging this one on Friday at 5pm.
So start entering! This is your last chance at N78 greatness!
This week, we've got another N78 to give away thanks to Nokia. But this time, the question's a little bit tougher: In 25 words or less, we need you to tell us: "What's the best way you would make use of the integrated GPS functionality on the new Nokia N78?". Answers in comments to this post - I'll be judging this one on Friday at 5pm.
So start entering! This is your last chance at N78 greatness!

Comments
Jonno
Posted July 14, 2008 11:04 AM
I'd use the GPS to avoid all the iphone hysteria.
crumpets
Posted July 14, 2008 11:05 AM
Navigate using the GPS through world youth day playing the catholic song from montypythons meaning of life getting the annoying fine in the process!
James
Posted July 14, 2008 11:08 AM
I would use the N78 to navigate for my IT Consultant work along with staying contactable via Mobile Email
Brandon
Posted July 14, 2008 11:09 AM
We just recently had a team building day at the corporate office and it was themed amazing race. As teams we had to decipher clues and race around Perth to obtain pit stops/answers to complete the race. If I had the Nokia N78 with its integrated gps function, our team would not only be able to get locations entered into the phone but access street maps! We would be undefeated (This is assuming someone in our team can read maps).
Oh Nokia help us with your uber leet phone!
Go Red team! Go!
Adam
Posted July 14, 2008 11:16 AM
I'd load a custom app to send the GPS coordinates to my phone so that I could track my girlfriend ;)
Keay Shen, See
Posted July 14, 2008 11:29 AM
I am looking for a new phone and the feature would come in handy when my hands are busy on the wheels
Benjibuls
Posted July 14, 2008 11:40 AM
Strap it to my arm and use it to traverse bush tracks to new places on my bike. Bonus! Not getting lost.
Huy Tran
Posted July 14, 2008 11:45 AM
I would use it to locate the nearest Apple Store. For reals.
tom
Posted July 14, 2008 11:48 AM
use it to navigate around all the iphone stores and related queues!
Clayton Morris
Posted July 14, 2008 11:50 AM
sure, it tells me where I am. But can it tell me why i am there??
Ben Wilson
Posted July 14, 2008 11:51 AM
Take geo-tagged photos of iPhone owners’ envious faces. Plot these points on a map to reveal the location of the Mac community inner sanctum.
Chris
Posted July 14, 2008 11:54 AM
So I can be ‘G’lobally ‘P’ositioned ‘S’omewhere else.
Will
Posted July 14, 2008 11:55 AM
I'd use it to find the g-spot.
U.Pseudonym
Posted July 14, 2008 11:56 AM
Duct-tape it to the Pope-mobile, and have it SMS Pontiff location messages to the Chaser guys so they can get arrested for annoying the pope.
Louise
Posted July 14, 2008 11:57 AM
Shoes, I get lost every time I go shopping. If I had this phone I could get some new shoes, yay.
Phil Taylor
Posted July 14, 2008 12:00 PM
I would use the GPS function to make sure Taxi's don't rip you off when travelling. IE check they are going most direct route.
Alex M
Posted July 14, 2008 12:13 PM
With Nokia's quality reception I'll be able to roam the streets instead of networks; whilst having the N78's awesome A-GPS to guide me!
Tara
Posted July 14, 2008 12:13 PM
I would use it to find my keys, then my house, then my car...
Ryan
Posted July 14, 2008 12:13 PM
Instead of writing my name and address on my arm before a big night, I now just need to bring up Nokia Maps and show it to the Cabbie.
Geoff
Posted July 14, 2008 12:14 PM
I would use it to 'zing!' my wife when she says to ask for directions. I'd say, '
Ben
Posted July 14, 2008 12:20 PM
I'd use it to locate other people's backyard swimming pools and then go help myself.
william
Posted July 14, 2008 12:24 PM
I wouldn’t use the GPS, otherwise the government could track me down and implicate me in a conspiracy to murder the PM. *tinfoilhat*
Joel H
Posted July 14, 2008 12:33 PM
When someone tells me where to go and what to do when I get there, I actually could.
Edward Mario
Posted July 14, 2008 12:39 PM
I'll use it to get to the next pub on my weekly pubcrawl
Aaron
Posted July 14, 2008 12:42 PM
Where ever I am, I’ll always know where my phone is. As long as it’s with me. And there aren’t wolves after me.
Rukshan
Posted July 14, 2008 12:43 PM
It can guide me on my journeys with the least amount of effort and thinking, and on the way I can avoid tollways!
hugh
Posted July 14, 2008 1:05 PM
by having a gps in my phone the goverment can track me with out having to put a chip in my arm.
Christopher Ng
Posted July 14, 2008 1:09 PM
After a night out with the boys and my weak ability to hold alcohol, God knows the sorts of pranks they'll play on me next; using the N78's GPS i'll be able to find out where the hell they've left me when I awake in the morning. >
Josh
Posted July 14, 2008 1:11 PM
Two words, 'Secret Agent'. Circumnavigating sewage systems with an approximate GPS reading will allow me to infiltrate my local J.B Hifi. Hello more gadgets.
Steven Yuen
Posted July 14, 2008 1:14 PM
Cock-meat sandwiches won't be on the menu if I can navigate to work on time. The boss discriminates ethnic minority driving.
Brett
Posted July 14, 2008 1:22 PM
I'd use it to help me remember where I left my phone. Oh, wait...
Garth
Posted July 14, 2008 1:36 PM
I'd use it to make sure I don't accidentally find myself looking at the wrong part of Senator Steven's "pipes".
stevo
Posted July 14, 2008 1:39 PM
I'd use it to locate the nearest public toilet, so that i can answer nature's call quickly, without risking a fine for indecent exposure!
Steve
Posted July 14, 2008 1:41 PM
I’d locate the Gizmodo AU office and ask for a job there so I can work with the brilliant Nick Broughall – or take hostages
cus
Posted July 14, 2008 1:43 PM
I'd use it to help the iDrones find a clue.
Jak
Posted July 14, 2008 1:52 PM
Clearly, GPS is best used for mapping. I could get rid of my Melways, geo-tag my snapshots, and make great use of Local Google search.
Adam
Posted July 14, 2008 2:35 PM
I would think that one could do urban tagging, or even gps-navigated laser games, seeking out opponents with the navigation :)
Allan
Posted July 14, 2008 2:40 PM
Quest for Australia's best roast chicken: one place at a time.
Gill
Posted July 14, 2008 3:26 PM
Deliver Pizzas
Fast Delivery = Better Tip
Yeah yeah. Just being honest.
Jace
Posted July 14, 2008 3:55 PM
Firstly, I'd drop the N78 in my bowl of Chuck Norris's urine to make Optimus Prime. Then use the GPS to track down Megan Fox.
Flav
Posted July 14, 2008 4:02 PM
I would use it while on the can to see if I change my position only by using gut power alone.
griv
Posted July 14, 2008 4:07 PM
*Hopefully* it would stop my girlfriend getting lost and constantly arriving late everywhere, clueless. zam!
(It would at least give her less of an excuse).
Aaron
Posted July 14, 2008 4:07 PM
As a pirate with dyslexia, it's really hard to read a compass. It just keeps telling me winds are getting “Then Worst”? Help me. RRAAAAY!
Leon
Posted July 14, 2008 4:10 PM
I would surgically place it into my brain so that I can't get lost because people are always telling me "men can't read maps".
gomes182
Posted July 14, 2008 4:15 PM
If i won i could finally use this to break the stupid canon law curse that is on me. My example being every time i lie to my boss saying that my car broke down, the next day my car DOES break down. So if i won the Nokia N787 i could use the GPS to navigate to whoever the hell invented the stupid canon law and bust a can of woop-ass on his candy ass. (Had to put a rock quote in there somewhere)
Jon
Posted July 14, 2008 4:28 PM
I can't see a star over the Jesus-phones manger. And I really need to deliver this frankenscence. GPS needed, please assist.
Jace
Posted July 14, 2008 4:30 PM
I would use the GPS to find the damn Crystal Skull. I got a whole army of man-eating ants after me. Without it I'm doomed.
Sean
Posted July 14, 2008 4:32 PM
i would use the gps to find the quickest way to school so i could sleep in on weekdays and still get to school on time.
Al-Amin Sajib
Posted July 14, 2008 4:39 PM
As being a foreign uni student (and naturally with only few cents on pocket) i have very little to no knowledge about sydney's streets. the first few days it even took me 20-30 minutes to get to my uni from The wynyard station which is supposed to be a 2 min walk.
This days it take 2 min to get to my uni from the train station but it still take me an ages to find a shop in City (those unknown shops).. and for those job hunting days..when you should be on time (if not earlier for the interview).
and added with that just a weeks ago i was full 9 minute late for that accounting job interview i was having a eagle eye on..(and as you can all guess the Hr Manager was really impressed about my time management)..
So get back to business...as you can see how badly i need that GPS...
And finally the queensland vacation that i had planed for this December will get a new face if i have this gps with me on that time...
Now get back to prayer...and hope nick does have a good heart .:)_
Simon
Posted July 14, 2008 4:48 PM
id give the phone to my girlfriend so she wouldnt have to keep rotating the ubd when i ask "when do i turn?"
Hakan
Posted July 14, 2008 4:57 PM
I will use the n78's A-GPS too loose my self in a world controled by technology and someday for it to capture me in a pod like the matrix and have me living in my digital induced virtual reality
Henry
Posted July 14, 2008 5:04 PM
I'd use it so that I don't go down the wrong alleyway again. (R.I.P Leather Wallet & Sony Ericsson K700i, 12/2007)
oliver
Posted July 14, 2008 5:08 PM
Id use the Gps in the N78 to avoid all of the telstra/optus/vodaphone [well not telsta] so that id be able to avoid them and not be tempted to buy an iphone.
Matt K
Posted July 14, 2008 5:15 PM
Stalking.
Heath D
Posted July 14, 2008 5:30 PM
I would use it to guide precision munitions upon my enemies and reduce collateral damage.
Patrick Brown
Posted July 14, 2008 5:36 PM
Id use it to find god... Ive heard hes out there. Maybe tap in Randwick ;)
Brad
Posted July 14, 2008 5:39 PM
To find the nearest Apple Store so I can etch in the shop's shiny glass windows "ereh saw 78n aikon"
Roger
Posted July 14, 2008 5:46 PM
I'd be kind enough to use to create the assist-a-rapper foundation. We help them find "Where the party (and other events) at".
glen richards
Posted July 14, 2008 5:59 PM
i would use it to navigate myself as far away as possible from that vegetarian dinner dished up to me tonight... what the hell!?!? you don't make friends with salad!
nakedrobot
Posted July 14, 2008 6:10 PM
I need the N78's GPS to find my way home. No really, I don't know where I am. It's very dark and I am frightened.
Danny
Posted July 14, 2008 6:18 PM
Won't get lost and make up excuses the next time i tell a chick i'll be there @ 8:30!
meinrosebud
Posted July 14, 2008 7:48 PM
Go and get lost... then you will find how good it is!
milinda wathugala
Posted July 14, 2008 7:50 PM
I would give it to my gf as she has the worst sense of direction in the world and always gets us lost when we go out and worse she gets lost herself so this would really help her out
Michael C
Posted July 14, 2008 8:02 PM
Finding my bloody car in some side street in Newtown while getting mugged by an emo because he-she thinks I have a fricken iPhone. Knife!
Timothy
Posted July 14, 2008 8:03 PM
When aliens aduct me I'll be probably able to tell where they've taken me, and give you a call with the coordinates to join the abduction party.
Alex
Posted July 14, 2008 8:40 PM
Prove to my Dad that technology is far more superior to his primordial techniques to find the most “stress free" route home from the in-laws.
Steve
Posted July 14, 2008 8:59 PM
I'd use it to ensure I didn't get too close to Adelaide..
greg ceely
Posted July 14, 2008 9:03 PM
My n78 gps would be a beacon in my life. No longer would I struggly blindly through the world. My path would be illuminated by the knowledge in my n78.
Fxxx
Posted July 14, 2008 9:07 PM
So I can finally know where in life I am...
Aaron Mark
Posted July 14, 2008 9:17 PM
Me and my oh so rich buddies will play a game of global hide and seek. Reminiscent of the adventures of "where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"...
Garry C
Posted July 14, 2008 9:40 PM
If possible I will use it to find my car keys which my little boy hides. sigh.
Marc
Posted July 14, 2008 9:49 PM
I'd use it to find Wally. I've been searching for him for years.
Andrew Newsome
Posted July 14, 2008 10:08 PM
To find my way home, as i spend my whole life in a library on the internet reading Gizmodo atricles and trying to win free stuff, and i cannot remember how to get home :P
Tom Nicol
Posted July 14, 2008 10:10 PM
I would drive up and down streets until I've written my name on the map using suburban roads. Then show it to all my friends while they look at me rather unimpressed and wonder why they still hang around me.
alan
Posted July 14, 2008 11:21 PM
I would use the GPS for Great Personal Satisfaction.
DONAR
Posted July 14, 2008 11:49 PM
I'd use the GPS to help Micheal Atkinson find a clue. Sorry. Still hurting over Fallout 3. :(
Eugene Mak
Posted July 15, 2008 1:43 AM
Finding the origin of all that lint that appears in the bellybutto... the N78 can do that right???
Ross
Posted July 15, 2008 2:44 AM
Swap N78 shell with a iphone shell and we'll call it the IphoneGPS, one that actually works with its GPS and Bluetooth functions !!!
Zainuddin Zafar
Posted July 15, 2008 6:46 AM
I would use it to pinpoint the person that does win this device (if it isn't me) and then go nick it from him/her. Haha. Now nick should give it to me so that everyone is safe.
lois
Posted July 15, 2008 7:46 AM
Lost? I might be. In the city? In the woods? Turn to my Nokia N78 gps. Found? I would be.
greg
Posted July 15, 2008 8:00 AM
I drive, wife navigates, map is always wrong, tension mounts.
But, wait my Nokia N78 gps will put this in the past.
Michael
Posted July 15, 2008 8:29 AM
This feature would allow me to go to dinner with friends and not be late EVERY time my girlfriend wants to direct!
Leigh
Posted July 15, 2008 10:06 AM
Dismally cold and rank in there,
Was Steve Jobs’ dairy air.
The iPhone couldn’t help his plight,
Nokia N78 out of sight.
Dan
Posted July 15, 2008 10:20 AM
It would make an excellent replacement speedo for my Camira.
Wigman
Posted July 15, 2008 10:50 AM
GPS could help SA’s Attorney-General Michael Atkinson find his way out of his own arse and support the introduction of R18+ rating for games.
DaveWillison
Posted July 15, 2008 1:23 PM
If only the GPS component was cabable of finding my sanity.
No really, i'd probably use it to pick up girls.
Garth
Posted July 15, 2008 2:02 PM
I'd use the N78 to navigate the M1 to BNE to fly to LAX on an A380 to attend E3.
StevoTheDevo
Posted July 15, 2008 3:24 PM
For the adrenalin rush of driving down the freeway the wrong way and having at least a partial excuse!
Seriously though, Geotagging would be great.
Ricardo
Posted July 15, 2008 3:58 PM
How come that this is one of the only comments where some cock doesn't say first... greedy bastards... go GPS yourself!
Loddie
Posted July 15, 2008 4:54 PM
I'd use it to track down the internet.
mookstar
Posted July 15, 2008 4:59 PM
And she said I would never find her again lol.
ps. I'm sane... no really, I am.
Dan
Posted July 15, 2008 5:00 PM
I would use the GPS as a way to find my way home after a wild night out, and at that point all i can do is squint at images on my phone.
Stuart Fisher
Posted July 15, 2008 5:07 PM
I wouldn't try to use it. I only just last month brought a TomTom and would feel like I was cheating with a cheap hooker.
Brent
Posted July 15, 2008 5:08 PM
I Enough? I think So
pete
Posted July 15, 2008 5:09 PM
Das keyboard is über cool, ja!
Louise Sayers
Posted July 15, 2008 5:09 PM
I need this phone so I don't have to put up with my husbands hand-me-down phones... PLEASE! :)
Steve
Posted July 15, 2008 5:14 PM
To record how far I can throw a N78.
Mike Lynch
Posted July 15, 2008 5:17 PM
I'd use the GPS to find myself :) (help... I need a new phone...mine is almost dead and the Jesus phone costs too much)
Ron E
Posted July 15, 2008 5:18 PM
wen i am blind drunk i can point at my phone and say i am living (vomit) here and point and he take me home
Jared
Posted July 15, 2008 5:21 PM
I'd duct tape the N78 to my Great Aunt Josephines mobility scooter. With GPS she wont get lost on the way to Bingo ever again!
Karl
Posted July 15, 2008 5:26 PM
when bushwalking to avoid getting lost and dieing a horrible death of de-hydration
Tim Moreillon
Posted July 15, 2008 5:27 PM
So when my iPhone get's stolen/lost/swallowed I can track it's location awareness with the N78's GPS abilities.
Geoff
Posted July 15, 2008 5:30 PM
Hire a decent 4WD, go out into the desert, and write my name in big cursive lettering on the N78 screen. Take that, stylus lovers!
Jesse Ross
Posted July 15, 2008 5:31 PM
I would strap the phone to a roo, take it to an isolated area, then see how fast it gets home using GPS.
PaulyG
Posted July 15, 2008 5:32 PM
I'd use it for my dog so that he can tell where he is and so he can make his own way home. He's smart!
Sam
Posted July 15, 2008 5:34 PM
I'd use the GPS to navigate my way between bars in the few European and U.S. cities that I'm visiting on a trip in August!
Ryan
Posted July 15, 2008 5:35 PM
Cause the GPS rocks and so do I
Matt K
Posted July 15, 2008 5:36 PM
Stop telling everyone about this competition, you're ruining my slim chances of winning! If you're not careful, I'll use that GPS to hunt you down, Mr. Broughall! (when I win?)
Marlin
Posted July 15, 2008 5:40 PM
Find Nemo! What else?
Tom Nicol
Posted July 15, 2008 5:46 PM
I have already submitted my comment, and naturally, want to win.
However if I don't win, I *really* hope that Steve does.
"To record how far I can throw a N78."
Priceless.
Grail
Posted July 15, 2008 5:50 PM
I'll simply picture where I want to be (tropical island, palms etc) and it will magically transport me there and I'll live happily ever-after. Sigh.
Tom
Posted July 15, 2008 5:53 PM
I'd use it to tag my cars location so I can find it when I wake up after a big night!
Matt
Posted July 15, 2008 5:54 PM
I'm near-blind. Having a working handheld GPS would make finding new places much easier, thus broadening my horizons.
Neil Pickersgill
Posted July 15, 2008 5:55 PM
Use the GPS to hack and redirect the StarWars Satellites to 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014
Warren
Posted July 15, 2008 5:58 PM
I wouldn't use the GPS, I just like entering in compitions with no hope of winning. I like cheese.
Scott Wakefield
Posted July 15, 2008 5:58 PM
Using the inbuilt camera and the GPS to 'geotag' all my photos from my nights out.. so I might be able to remember where I was.
Alex
Posted July 15, 2008 5:59 PM
I'd use the GPS system to find out the place my damn friends who can't give decent directions to save there lives!
Matt Jackel
Posted July 15, 2008 5:59 PM
To find the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, it just can't be 42.
Brendan
Posted July 15, 2008 6:01 PM
What is the point of having a GPS, when you live in a town with 3 streets? If I had to use it, I would mark every house in the town as a POI.
Gary Boddis
Posted July 15, 2008 6:04 PM
To go on a pub crawl! Then maybe a resturaunt crawl, i get hungry...
meinrosebud
Posted July 15, 2008 6:12 PM
Hey dude just give me one of those beauties and let me worry about fitting it into my lifestyle!!!
Christian
Posted July 15, 2008 6:14 PM
GPS my way to heaven
Braden Blyde
Posted July 15, 2008 6:15 PM
N78+GPS = Me being a married man. GPS does stand for Girlfriend Proposition Service doesn't it?
Pierrick
Posted July 15, 2008 6:18 PM
Find Beer... we're Australia after all !
monkeycitto
Posted July 15, 2008 6:19 PM
Get my bearings precise, you see my "vestibular apparatus" came broke. I sometimes wake up upside down, without realizing.
Johnny Lieu
Posted July 15, 2008 6:20 PM
I'd use the N78's GPS to get me from pub to pub on a Saturday night; since i have absolutely no idea where i'm going after the first two pubs.
Andrew N
Posted July 15, 2008 6:22 PM
What's wrong with my iphone you say? no mms? no video recording? no turn-by-turn gps directions? thats ok, i strapped an N78 to the back of it.
monkeycitto
Posted July 15, 2008 6:23 PM
Get my bearings precise, you see my "vestibular apparatus" came broke. I sometimes wake up upside down, without realizing.
Luke R
Posted July 15, 2008 6:27 PM
Getting my ass the hell away from the iPhone pilgrims, W.Y.D followers and getting home from the Giz office after winning or something like that.
Odjn
Posted July 15, 2008 6:30 PM
I'd be able to find her house, take her picture through the window, AND breathe heavily over the phone with just the one unit.
chris
Posted July 15, 2008 6:36 PM
I've got nothing
RoTnEy
Posted July 15, 2008 6:38 PM
nokia's integrated GPS will get me home after finding myself in boxers gone walk-about unknown suburbs or if im lucky back to the bar! :P
Nick
Posted July 15, 2008 6:39 PM
What's the point of putting Global Positioning functionality into the phone, it STILL can't tell you where you left the damn thing!! :^)
Matt Jackel
Posted July 15, 2008 6:49 PM
To find the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, it just can't be 42.
damien stephens
Posted July 15, 2008 6:51 PM
Figure out where LOST island is and run off with Kate, while avoiding polar bears and weird black smoky things.
August Setiawan
Posted July 15, 2008 6:51 PM
Integrate N78 to my brain, so I don't have to think *that* hard about any sense of direction whatsoever. Especially during business hours on weekdays.
Jacob
Posted July 15, 2008 7:05 PM
GPS Navigate me into the hearts of those around me and out of my room XD
Sam S ... AKA Beanie
Posted July 15, 2008 7:07 PM
Give it to my parents everytime they come to borrow my car, to use the inbuilt GPS. When they use it to go places!!!!
Jared
Posted July 15, 2008 7:08 PM
Note where my fridge is and the computer with the IP of 127.0.0.1 so I can successfully navigate between them.
Hamish
Posted July 15, 2008 7:26 PM
I'd use the GPS to find my bloody car keys! Of course, they'll be in the last place I look.
James C
Posted July 15, 2008 7:28 PM
I would use it to locate Gizmodo AU’s secret headquarters, and then set them up with a pizza with _extra_ sausage.
Rueben
Posted July 15, 2008 7:37 PM
I need to STOP driving in the wrong direction on one way roads of which there are FAR TOO MANY in the cities! (country boy)
Andrew Mills
Posted July 15, 2008 7:59 PM
The N78 would be great for navigating my way around the roads of Hill Valley.
But...
Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
Jeremy Austin
Posted July 15, 2008 8:00 PM
N78 is the name of my date,
I'd take her out on the town till way late,
we'd navigate the back-alleys, scoping out the place
to paint, put up stickers or even wheatpaste
some gnarly GPS tags and pics we love to create.
Dom
Posted July 15, 2008 8:00 PM
Simple: geotagged photos. It's the next big thing in photography, and browsing photos on Flickr using a map is amazing.
Jacob
Posted July 15, 2008 8:01 PM
I would use the in built GPS feature to benefit company's such as IBM and TABCORP, as iam a tech for both. I'm sure they'd much rather me being able to find the places rather than calling the places all the time and asking for directions to them lolz
John Spencer
Posted July 15, 2008 8:14 PM
I would use the GPS to find a Telco that has an iPhone in stock......
Nugs
Posted July 15, 2008 8:28 PM
xkcd geohashing http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing
Can't beat random road trips when you're bored.
Wazza
Posted July 15, 2008 8:30 PM
I would use the GPS to find Jesus.
Son-of-a-bitch Rick-rolled me and its payback time...
Wazza
Posted July 15, 2008 8:33 PM
Ok, so I lied, I would use it to find all the cool night spots in Adelaide.
Oh, that's right...
Wonjoon Kim
Posted July 15, 2008 8:33 PM
I will be travel-maniac with GPS ready N78
Wonjoon
Posted July 15, 2008 8:40 PM
I will be Travel-Maniac with N78 GPS
raphael pearce
Posted July 15, 2008 8:53 PM
My current phone has GPS:
Hold phone at arms length and release.
Phone falls in direction of nearest globe.
Minh Nguyen
Posted July 15, 2008 8:53 PM
The GPS may come in handy when my wife asks me to find the "Spot". THANK YOU GPS!
Spotrick
Posted July 15, 2008 8:57 PM
With the awesome GPS capability of the Nokia N78, I'd be able to find my arse without a flashlight. And other interesting out of the way places.
Dayne
Posted July 15, 2008 9:07 PM
If I had an intergrated GPS. I'd sit on a PushBike and ride around with the GPS. The first push bike to contain a GPS system. Hottest thing this winter other than the iPhone!
Catherine Laker
Posted July 15, 2008 9:09 PM
"Yippee", I'd finally find my way home,
After partying when I'm all alone,
If I had an intergrated GPS on my Nokia phone.
joshua
Posted July 15, 2008 9:20 PM
nokia nokia,
your GPS resounds,
your beautiful omniscience terrifies me,
but your accuracy abounds.
oh shiny shiny day.
Kamal Limbu
Posted July 15, 2008 9:22 PM
I'll use N78's GPS to track up a spy who's been following me so I'll follow him from back and take his snap.
Julien
Posted July 15, 2008 9:31 PM
I already have an iPhone 3G - I need to find out for myself which is better, the iPhone or the N78.
Sam
Posted July 15, 2008 9:34 PM
Use it to find Matt, Noonamah, The mysterious cities of gold, Atlantis, Osama bin Laden, and the fat kid from Hey Dad.
Matt Freer
Posted July 15, 2008 9:35 PM
I'd use it to find Waldo.
Nick
Posted July 15, 2008 9:48 PM
I'd use it to run down the batteries when I'm at the beach over the weekend sick of dealing with work.
Gavin Dineen
Posted July 15, 2008 9:51 PM
what's a GPS?
James Bell
Posted July 15, 2008 10:01 PM
I'd make a Presence/Twitter application that used bluetooth to tell you who was around and announce where you were.
Cameron
Posted July 15, 2008 10:07 PM
If I won this phone I'd flip a coin to decide who to give it to. The backhoe operator who cut the optus fibre (preload the phone with dialbeforeyoudig maps), or the techie who had to find the stanthorpe exchange to replace the card. Does the phone come with a telstra mobile plan?
Butcha
Posted July 15, 2008 10:09 PM
I would use the N78's GPS to find my way in this crazy, crazy world. Let my life be run by the devices I own!
Leigh Ridgway
Posted July 15, 2008 10:23 PM
give me the phone and at least your mum will stop complaining that I never call.
marc
Posted July 15, 2008 10:29 PM
With GPS taggin on the phone, ill finally be able to fill in the blanks from the night befores drinking. oh so i met the hot chick in the gay club?
Anthony
Posted July 15, 2008 10:30 PM
The GPS, what a useful feature to locate the places where I may have misplaced my Nokia N78! Oh wait...
dan
Posted July 15, 2008 10:36 PM
track how far i have to bloody walk at work, and then maybe that will be enough for them to supply some decent safety shoes!!
Avatar
Posted July 15, 2008 10:47 PM
I have planned to open several business outlets in "radial formation". I would use N78 GPS to measure its distance from a center point.
Mark.wr
Posted July 15, 2008 10:48 PM
Use the GPS to find the top 10 nude sunbathers on Google Earth and offer them a sun umbrella in exchange for an iPhone
rpereira
Posted July 15, 2008 10:49 PM
I would use it so I would not get lost in shopping centers ! And to show off to all the iphone loving junkies at work!
DAVE
Posted July 15, 2008 10:53 PM
So many fun new gadgets! I dont have a GPS and if I had one it would just be one more thing I would stop using my brain for! bring on the gadgets!
Nokia Fans
Posted July 15, 2008 10:54 PM
I have planned to open several business outlets in "radial formation". I would use N78 GPS to measure its distance from a center point.
Andrew Varvel
Posted July 15, 2008 11:20 PM
Make a cardboard car; turn up turn-by-turn directions loud and 'drive' around the city like an idiot!
Mickey J
Posted July 15, 2008 11:22 PM
When your dear sweet girlfriend has a 27 acre body like mine does, N78 GPS wit Geocaching has gotta make a brother a better lover!
James
Posted July 15, 2008 11:25 PM
i would use the gps so that i could find the nearest tv remote
claire robertson
Posted July 15, 2008 11:33 PM
there's no place like home....there's no place like home..(in background -sparkling shoes are heard clucking together)I would use GPS to help Dorothy and Todo find their way home to aunty Em. If only they had GPS back then...
Doug
Posted July 15, 2008 11:42 PM
No offense dad, but the old taxi routes don't cut it anymore. It's 2008!We have these things called highways. You need a GPS and a phone!
Here, Have a pressie!
Isaac
Posted July 15, 2008 11:53 PM
GPS does stand for "Great Phone Sex" right?
David
Posted July 15, 2008 11:59 PM
Yarrrr i'd use it to find the heart of Davey Jones and then bribe him help me get a date with Keira Knightly.
Yarrrrrrrrrrr......
ET
Posted July 16, 2008 12:13 AM
I'll use it two ways: commemorate exact spot where I smash my current POS phone and ensure “thank you” beers are precisely delivered to Gizmodo.
DONAR
Posted July 16, 2008 12:14 AM
I'd use the GPS the navigate around all the obstacles I'd otherwise be walking into while looking at my GPS.
Socrates
Posted July 16, 2008 12:19 AM
I would use it to keep track of the Globe's position. That is what a Global Positioning System does, isn't it???
Tomas Schubert
Posted July 16, 2008 1:05 AM
Re-tracing my steps after a big night and lost wallet; or knowing where the hell I am when I wake up in the morning
mr. crash
Posted July 16, 2008 1:07 AM
I would use the integrated GPS to hunt down and destroy all the people who left crap poety here.
Grant
Posted July 16, 2008 1:14 AM
Geotagging, since memories of the night before are never quite as trustworthy as coordinates after a night out on the town.
Shaun
Posted July 16, 2008 2:58 AM
Attach to keys and blog the location. Then I can look up the location of my keys via an iPhone.
Tim Watson
Posted July 16, 2008 3:20 AM
i'd conceal the n78 within my mountain bike for offroad navigation slash stolen bike locator! woohoo!! forthcoming!
blood.eaglz
Posted July 16, 2008 3:32 AM
I'd use the gps to help create crop circles in the shape of the "dick and balls" found on many a school desk, so it shows up on Google earth.
Jess
Posted July 16, 2008 6:25 AM
Wonder if we can use this to track down Bin Laden, since US cant find him !
Kade Miller
Posted July 16, 2008 7:54 AM
GPS, find Jane, Tarzan hungry.
Seriously, I'd use the GPS to find a sense of humor because obviously I do not have one.
PACMAN
Posted July 16, 2008 8:05 AM
I'd use the GPS to follow Jonno.
Right with ya, buddy!
Dave M
Posted July 16, 2008 8:06 AM
Sending endless GPS mapped pictures via MMS during my holiday to my colleague Tanya. She can't respond,she's got an iphone.
Steve
Posted July 16, 2008 8:08 AM
I'd use it to discover my location after knocking myself unconscious by hitting an immovable object while using it to navigate my way...
Dan
Posted July 16, 2008 8:13 AM
I have a first gen iPhone, making me part of an exclusive group.
Now everyone has iPhones I need something made by Nokia to be different.
Who would have thought!
Ian
Posted July 16, 2008 8:23 AM
If I were the dude in the picture I'd use the GPS to track down some new clothes!
jason
Posted July 16, 2008 8:49 AM
i can strap it to my dogs collar and plot where he goes at night!! thanks nokia
jay
Posted July 16, 2008 8:57 AM
With the integrated GPS on the Nokia 78, I’ll never breach my restraining orders again!
shane
Posted July 16, 2008 9:07 AM
I'd plot my coordinates on apple blogs. That way people with an iPhone could come and see what a real phone looks like.
Apollo
Posted July 16, 2008 9:08 AM
Kidnap people, dump them out to sea, save the position on GPS then get them the next day as a means of ransom collection.
Matt
Posted July 16, 2008 9:16 AM
If it works better than my current GPS I'll take it. Honestly, since when was a beach considered a road!? Longest Rainbow Beach trip ever!
Suzanne Earley
Posted July 16, 2008 9:34 AM
My brother and I have an international treasure hunt all worked out and ready to go, but need the GPS function to make it work!!
frog
Posted July 16, 2008 9:41 AM
i'd use gps for obvious where-the-hell-am-i, also tagging pics on blog for upcoming one-boy-and-dog-on-motorcycle-australian tour
parris
Posted July 16, 2008 9:46 AM
I do want to win a nokia n78, I just cant be f@+ked thinking of something whitty.
I would use it tp replace the 1976 UBD I use as an excuse for street directory.
Stay Nice
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Fred
Posted July 16, 2008 10:00 AM
I would use it to find the head office of optus and scream at them for not appoving an iphone plan for me.
Sciclone
Posted July 16, 2008 10:14 AM
I would use the GPS to locate the delude iPhone fanboys that think their iPhone is better than the phones in Japan.
Glenn
Posted July 16, 2008 10:15 AM
I'll use the n78 when I'm walking home from work so i wont get mugged for my iphone
Peter
Posted July 16, 2008 10:49 AM
I would amuse myself by turning off ferries in the options telling it to take me to an island and see if the application crashes.
Glen Hassell
Posted July 16, 2008 11:31 AM
I'd use it to hide in a pair of red shoe's for the unsuspecting, Carmen Sandiego and using the GPS finally get to "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" a game that after 23 year's I still have failed to locate... being that I recently became blind in one eye it also might come in handy for 'driftin' around carpark's and avoiding tabasco sauce moments!
Paul
Posted July 16, 2008 11:37 AM
Geotag my arm, that way if I ever lose myself I will know where to look.
Murray
Posted July 16, 2008 11:53 AM
I'd use it to find the funniest response in this thread - and plaguarise it to win the N78.
Umang Barot
Posted July 16, 2008 11:57 AM
Use it so that I am not late from my one class to another in my Uni. Campus!!!
Chad
Posted July 16, 2008 12:27 PM
I'd use the N78 to mark where all the gadget stores are, so when im out and about (or being dragged shopping with my wife), i can silently slip away, and go and browse for gadgets in peace...yeeehhhaaa
trist
Posted July 16, 2008 12:32 PM
the best use ever....world domination.
Hugs,
Dr Doom.
ben
Posted July 16, 2008 12:40 PM
I'd use it to find Blues Clues.
trist
Posted July 16, 2008 12:46 PM
geotag my house & where l leave my keys for those big nights on town...
Jumper
Posted July 16, 2008 1:13 PM
To find your sense of humor. Two cans and a piece of string? Seriously?
Johno
Posted July 16, 2008 2:14 PM
To prove once and for all to my girlfriend that while driving, I DO know where I am and that this IS the right way!
Calvin Joo Mann Park
Posted July 16, 2008 2:41 PM
To find nearby toilets
Mark
Posted July 16, 2008 3:13 PM
I'd use the N78's GPS functionality to find where my lost map reading skills have gone to !
Sean
Posted July 16, 2008 3:20 PM
I would replace my n95 which likes to send me to dead ends and roads that don't exist. Thanks N95 :)
Jason Cleeland
Posted July 16, 2008 4:25 PM
When I'm taking the kids on long car trips, I'd use it to answer their interminable questioning "Are we there yet?".
jk
Posted July 16, 2008 5:13 PM
To find my pants after a party at Todd McKenney's place
Dan
Posted July 16, 2008 5:18 PM
The nokia N78 is brilliant in the way I can select not to use Optus as well as not live in Queensland!
Karl
Posted July 16, 2008 5:29 PM
Go to information kiosks and get gps location of the next information kiosk, when i get it, i say i just come from there
Ben L
Posted July 16, 2008 8:06 PM
I would use the GPS to geotag the location of my old phone's burial site. Which would be inevitable should I win the phone.
Lexi
Posted July 16, 2008 9:29 PM
I'd use it to find the people that stole my brand new phone to show them the awesome new one I won.
Cameron Turner
Posted July 16, 2008 9:37 PM
I'd use it to help me find a place where everyone isn't using an iphone, finding the closest Telstra shop should do the trick.
Chris
Posted July 16, 2008 9:46 PM
To give friends random coordinates of where to meet, and actually being able to get there.
Gonzo
Posted July 16, 2008 10:14 PM
First, to find two people, prefferably female. Then a cup. And this thing has video yea?
Sunny Kalsi
Posted July 17, 2008 1:53 PM
My answer: SMS other people to tell them where I am. They'll be like "WTF is -165.536281,55.835171... Oh wait there's a bar named '-165.536281,55.835171' just up the road!"
I'm assuming numbers don't count as words...
Rick A
Posted July 17, 2008 4:31 PM
Because being told to kayak across the pacific ocean just isn't enough direction.
Sze Rial
Posted July 17, 2008 6:25 PM
I would love to use it to help me track down the hobbit on my upcoming NZ trip!
steve
Posted July 17, 2008 6:34 PM
make sucky global sized art via tracking my movement. first up is a mexico sized penis.
Brett C
Posted July 17, 2008 6:35 PM
To find Candy Mountain!!!! Chaaarrrrliiieeeee! Its a magic leopluradon!
Mark Bentley
Posted July 17, 2008 6:44 PM
It would allow me to upload my geo-tagged pics to http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com so we would ALL know where to go for a good laugh
Nakul
Posted July 17, 2008 6:46 PM
I can finally stop leaving a trail of bread crumbs where ever I go.
Rangott
Posted July 17, 2008 6:48 PM
Id use it to find a good answer, since ill I can think of was my last answer.
Scott
Posted July 17, 2008 6:57 PM
I would use the GPS as a scapegoat for my poor in-car navigation skills, as a man I automatically am wrong when navigating
Matthew A
Posted July 17, 2008 7:01 PM
I would use the Nokia’s elegant deign to spank my girlfriend, and then whip out the camera to catch the rest of the action!
Justin Hone
Posted July 17, 2008 7:03 PM
When someone told me to got lost, I'd whip the N78 out of my pocket, show them the GPS function and declare "I can't! Ha!"
Dana
Posted July 17, 2008 7:06 PM
I would use it to navigate my way out of Ashfield. I came here January and I'm still here. I'm sick of Chinese food.
Alex
Posted July 17, 2008 7:08 PM
Become more cultured, make global friends, and learn about the world playing GeoCache, a global GPS based treasure hunt.
Sean
Posted July 17, 2008 7:10 PM
I'd use it as a GPS!
See, I'm being unique by saying the obvious. :P
Pick me!
michael
Posted July 17, 2008 7:10 PM
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Recep
Posted July 17, 2008 7:13 PM
So it can tell me where the shortcuts are while racing the motorbike and guarantee victory over the measly non-gps riders
Red Wolf
Posted July 17, 2008 7:42 PM
The GPS would come in quite handy for helping me remember where the bodies are buried.
Frank
Posted July 17, 2008 7:48 PM
I would use the new GPs navigation system to show the cool kids that i'm cool too(l) as well and rule over my fellow nerd-kind. (and use it to get laid, perhaps by locating the cheapest and sleaziest hoe-tel) If i could afford classy joints i would buy myself a new phone and not enter random phone contests. Nerds rule!
Jarred Raymond
Posted July 17, 2008 7:56 PM
I would us the GPS to tell myself where to go
James
Posted July 17, 2008 8:00 PM
To find the EA Sports HQ, beat the hell out of Peter Moore so that they stop releasing the same games with hardly any improvment
John
Posted July 17, 2008 8:00 PM
Give Channel 7 directions out of the prison so that Prison Break can finally end !@#$
Jake
Posted July 17, 2008 8:02 PM
I would use the in-built GPS to find White Castle!
Travis
Posted July 17, 2008 8:10 PM
I’d use it to find the Apple Store and show them iPhone drones just how much better a Nokia N78 is.
Fast and Furious
Posted July 17, 2008 8:21 PM
I'd tape it to my Civic and get it to calculate my best escape route while blitzing from the p-o-l-i-c-e.
Shane Reid
Posted July 17, 2008 8:37 PM
If i told you how i would use the GPS function i would have to kill you all!!! muhahahaha
no really....
Chris B
Posted July 17, 2008 8:40 PM
Use it to show my mates that no matter how cool the iphone is, mine was free. Nothing is cooler than that Gizmodo FTW
Brett
Posted July 17, 2008 8:42 PM
I'd use it to keep away from my Mother-in-law for as long as possible. Hopefully FOREVER!
Adam Parker
Posted July 17, 2008 8:59 PM
I would use the GPS to find the moron that cut through the fiber optic cable on the Gold Coast.
Joel
Posted July 17, 2008 9:05 PM
Track my hike to the peak of Mt Kilimanjaro, load the data on google maps with weather overlay on my blog site.
christo
Posted July 17, 2008 9:46 PM
It’ll get my son to soccer and daughter to basketball on time. It’ll also get the wife off my back about bad directional sense. Help!
Washington
Posted July 17, 2008 9:48 PM
I would navigate my way to the Apple store in Sydney, line up and ask whether they're selling the new Blackberry.
Fez P
Posted July 17, 2008 9:50 PM
I'd write a program to strip off the ip-addresses of my emails and pin point the sender's location :D
trinest
Posted July 17, 2008 10:04 PM
I would use the GPS to track a GPS chip I would implement into my brothers keys and other devices so he stops bitching to me every time he wants to go somewhere for example - 'Trent? Where are my keys?'
Jason Marriott
Posted July 17, 2008 10:05 PM
Find out where 'mongolia' is and go there. I have heard there is no iPhone propaganda to deal with, as everyone there lives in tents. It would have its drawbacks, But it would be worth it!
Rahux
Posted July 17, 2008 10:09 PM
I'd use it to globally position myself inside your woman. Zing.
Darrin
Posted July 17, 2008 10:10 PM
I would use the GPS to help a potential iPhone buyer tell his/her arse from his/her elbow before they signed up for one of the exorbitant plans.
Clement
Posted July 17, 2008 10:13 PM
To investigate where things go in the Afterlife - once my Luddite sister hears my Tick Tick Boom ringtone and decides to drown it down the toilet thinking it's some futuristic bomb -.-' OOPS!!! Guess she never really took a fancy for the Hives.
Simon
Posted July 17, 2008 10:23 PM
i'll use the in-built gps to impress lost women in those giant shopping malls ;)
dangercharlie
Posted July 17, 2008 10:27 PM
Nokia is from Finland.
Finland is in Scandinavia
Scandinavian girls are hawt!
Show me the way N78!
Russell Drowley
Posted July 17, 2008 10:33 PM
The GPS would come in really handy for my MTB exploits. Put in the way points and off I would go. Getting lost would be a thing of the past. Coupled with Nokia's free Sports Tracker program it would be a real gem.
Paulo
Posted July 17, 2008 10:45 PM