Unless you're fine with just seeing where the wind blows you -- and hey, we're all for spontaneous travel at times -- you'll lose a lot of time on the ground if you don't have at least an idea of the layout of your destination before you arrive.

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"With the crater rim slope to the north and Mount Sharp to the south, we may be seeing more of the wind blowing along the depression in between the two slopes, rather than up and down the slope of Mount Sharp, " said Claire Newman, a REMS investigator at Ashima Research in Pasadena.

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"(Many of) the big cities aren't seeing snow accumulation, they're seeing very heavy rain with the wind, " she said.

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However, when you look at the media hype every time the wind blows she is supposedly back with the loser John whats his name or she is seeing Brad Split from Jolie.

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Traffic data is included here for free, though the phone warns you that you may wind up seeing a few ads mixed in from time to time to cover it. (We didn't see any during the course of this review.) If traffic is noticed anywhere along or near your route the phone will throw up an indicator to warn you.

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When I was a kid, I liked walking through neighborhoods alone, looking at houses, seeing what people did to make them homes: the gardens, the statuary, the potted plants, the wind chimes.

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