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Not sure why she bothered in the first place. She's moving back to the Alaska Bush soon and she's sure not going to be able to get much use out of it there. Probably will come in handy for trips in pedestrian mode when she gets Outside for vacations.
When I looked the 7" screens they sold didn't even have batteries. They were for big rigs, for permanent mounts.
Not much new since my 1490LMT model. Just some thinner ones, and HD radio traffic (I think?). Also some take voice commands now.
Waze
Looks like maps with real time updates, no more dead ends, real time cops and accidents and a gas finder rolled into one.
Dash tried this but didn't get enough buy-in from people.
The fact that this works on Apple or Android should help it a lot.
Too bad I'm stuck with BlackBerry (required for work).
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I remember Subaru wanted $2200 for the Navi on my wife's Forester. For a smallish screen with no backup cam.
Today the options costs less than half ($1000) and includes a backup cam.
So getting $300 back for it is fine now. Residuals on a 3 year lease are around 52% or so, so if the Navi gets 30% back that's close enough.
Can you put POI files in a factory nav?
(Oh, something must be dicey at Garmin - their warranty claims have exploded recently per Warranty Week - claims are up +584% as a percentage of sales over a year ago).
Funny thing is, there are so many it was beeping all the time!
But yeah, the portables give you more control over stuff like that.
I just updated his and it still doesn't have he ICC here in MD, a year later. Disappointing since he lives right off the exit, so he's basically off the map all the time.
I think the latest Garmin update finally has the whole ICC. Magellan's from last quarter only had the early phases, not the whole thing.
A portable GPS can do that. :shades:
Sorry, just had to say it.
Sorry, just had to say it.
Don't go to the stockmarket thread and say that. They will try to run you off. Only thing that saved the iPhone 5 was allowing users to have Google maps back. Apple thought they knew maps and laid a big egg with the iPhone 5.
Apple maps could not calculate a route to National air port from the Marriott just 3 blocks away. It goes in a circle and never gets inside the air port.
Apple's warranty claims up 46%. That's huge, IMHO.
>>Don't go to the stockmarket thread and say that. They will try to run you off.
I've not seen a discussion on edmunds running quite like that one.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Not very confident in their product. What if the spouse drives a Subaru?
Not at all unlikely in the snow belt.
"The Porsche noticed a 2 mile traffic backup and re-routed me 228 miles away to avoid it. Thanks! @Mike_Magrath"
The hotel has a Rt 1 address, but the entrance is on a side street. The highway goes right by, no exit to get up if you're heading north.
You'd think a GPS would know that.
Nothing beats a local's knowledge of the roads.
Not a bad idea, they have the most easy to use interface. Just make it HD, and they might end up with the best Navi in the business.
I don't like touchscreens - fingerprints.
That's why I said Garmin must go HD.
I like touchscreens, just look at how ubiquitous tablets and smart phones have become. A simple wipe for finger prints works.
Honda came up with a clever solution - 2 screens. Only the bottom one you touch.
I don't like the joystick controls because the passenger has to use them left handed. Try using your mouse left handed, and good luck! Or you could limit your spouse search to lefties only.
Voice commands are fine, of course, especially if they can recognize natural speech (most don't).
These need to work as well as Siri does. Just say "Navigate to Fred's house" and it should search your contacts for Fred and go to that address. Or a command like "Go to the nearest gas station" and let it figure that out.
The idea of spinning a wheel to enter one single letter at a time is, to me, unacceptable nowadays.
PS
The built-in GPS was spot on to the room in the house. Using Google maps.
Glad to see (I think) MB and Garmin hooking up. Hopefully that'll mean more and cheaper updates for built-in navigation systems and cheaper upfront costs too.
I kinda want a Galaxy Note 3 as a phone. Fits in my pocket but near-tablet sized screen.
Garmin gets map updates quarterly, too. Can't beat that.
Will there be an SD slot for updates? Or maybe via the car's telematics, though map database are HUGE so that would eat up your whole data allowance.
MB Comand will give you a list to scroll once you input a couple letters. Not as easy as direct entry, but you don't have to use the mouse/wheel to enter an entire destination. I usually know where I am going anyway, so accuracy and image quality trumps that for me. The car also has an SD slot, so an update like you mention would be possible, in theory.
I have yet to see a voice control unit that is really accurate, especially with more than a few words spoken.
Yeah, most GPS use predictive text, and that helps, until you have many streets with similar names.
The tech is evolving very fast, you have to wonder what we'll see 5 years or so from now. I'm holding out for teleportation. :shades:
Glare is no doubt an issue.