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Garmin, MSN Eliminate Unnecessary Address Entry on GPS Units

drewheyman — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:24:58 EST

@Toretto:
whenever the crew of the good ship SS Blue Triangle fly off the red route, they will beg, nay plead - to get updated directions beamed to them over the FM band before they are lost forever!

They would also accept the AM band, but they are not sure how much staticy farm reports and talk radio would help.

drewheyman

Garmin, MSN Eliminate Unnecessary Address Entry on GPS Units

Toretto — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:46:49 EST

I bought the Nuvi 680 because the TomTom/Google service cost a lot more. You need a data plan on your cell phone to get that data.

I admit, I'm not using the Live feature. But gas prices and traffic data is worth the $50 a year. I don't regret getting the Nuvi. Awesome.

Toretto

Garmin, MSN Eliminate Unnecessary Address Entry on GPS Units

wheels OF satan! — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:31:39 EST

does the blue-screen-of-death cost extra too? or does microsoft/msn throw that in for freeee?

wheels OF satan!

Garmin, MSN Eliminate Unnecessary Address Entry on GPS Units

ecobore — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:29:29 EST

TomTom/Google solution is typically much simpler and doesn't involve hideous MSerf!

ecobore

Garmin, MSN Eliminate Unnecessary Address Entry on GPS Units

fastm3driver — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:50:31 EST

Wow like my 4 year old ique from the same company.
Funny it's still small than any of the Nuvi's and does way more. sad

fastm3driver

Garmin, MSN Eliminate Unnecessary Address Entry on GPS Units

squablow — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:50:07 EST

$50 a year to save 45 seconds of touch-screen typing time? I don't get it. Garmin needs to spend more time keeping their maps up to date and less time coming up with stupid stuff that no one is looking for.

squablow

Garmin, MSN Eliminate Unnecessary Address Entry on GPS Units

eltonito — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:35:41 EST

@ElChupacabura: Or Bluetooth maybe?

eltonito

Garmin, MSN Eliminate Unnecessary Address Entry on GPS Units

mowges — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:23:06 EST

ignore the short sighted people above, there are many possibilities with this in the long term such as friends or family from home sending the address to you or sending new outlook calendar alerts to you with addresses for sales people...

mowges

Garmin, MSN Eliminate Unnecessary Address Entry on GPS Units

ElChupacabura — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:05:18 EST

Ever heard of a USB cable! My god talk about making this process as complicated as possible.

ElChupacabura

Garmin, MSN Eliminate Unnecessary Address Entry on GPS Units

Igor — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:03:20 EST

WOW that is dumb, expensive and too complicated all at once ..

TomTom and Google in the meantime simply have a link that starts your TomTom Home application and uploads the new location into your connected GPS .. backwards compatible, instantaneous, and no need to pay for MS Spot.

Igor