That really works? I've been rocking mobile navigation for a couple years with Ovi Maps (formerly Nokia Maps), and more recently waze. The first is excellent, the latter very promising.<br><br>I understand that Ovi Maps is not quite ready for primetime on the N900. Maybe one of the reasons they postponed the launch?<br>
<br>K<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Mark Haury <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wolfmane@gmail.com">wolfmane@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10384544-265.html?tag=nl.e703" target="_blank">http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10384544-265.html?tag=nl.e703</a><br>
<br>
Finally, a navigation solution for handhelds that really works. As soon<br>
as T-Mobile comes out with an Android 2.0 phone that I like, it's<br>
sayonara to the piece of crap TomTom I bought a couple of months ago<br>
(I'm on the third unit with a defective battery and am not going to<br>
bother sending this one in - I'll replace the battery myself - but<br>
that's just scratching the surface of all the horrible design problems.<br>
I incorrectly assumed that TomTom had been around long enough to figure<br>
out how to make a gpsr, but I should have stuck with Garmin) as well as<br>
my Nokia tablet that never really did anything well and is now dying an<br>
ugly death due to corrupt and probably failing internal flash memory.<br>
<br>
Maybe this will force the standalone gps manufacturers to bring the map<br>
update prices down to something approaching reasonable. Or even run them<br>
all out of business, which they so richly deserve after all these years<br>
of highway robbery. 95% of the map data they get for free from<br>
governments and other free and public sources, at least 4% of it is<br>
corrections from their own consumers who have paid dearly for maps, and<br>
_maybe_ 1% of it is obtained in-house. And since at least 95% of any<br>
given map update is identical to the old map, it's absurd to assert that<br>
they have any real financial investment in it. It's a racket very like<br>
the printer manufacturers who sell some printers near and sometimes even<br>
below cost, but make such extremely high profit margins on the ink and<br>
toner that they could give the printers away for free and it wouldn't<br>
make any difference. Can you say "at least 6000% profit"?!?!? (Except<br>
the GPS manufacturers are making a very healthy profit on the hardware<br>
as well.)<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
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