cappomutato

September 14, 2010 at 5:15am

I've got the Garminfone.  It was free at T-Mobile on father's day.  Garmin/Asus did themselves in by going with a slow processor and Android 1.3.  This thing defines sluggish.  Calls are missed because it is too slow to load the phone at times.  To my knowledge, it has only very recently been rooted and there certainly isn't a cynogen mod.  The GPS part is pretty nice, as is the built-in tethering, but it doesn't make up for locking you into their custom interface and limiting your options at every turn. Maybe they could turn it around by embracing the modding community, release their tools and try to make it the most mod-friendly platform on the market.

 

 

bart3385

September 12, 2010 at 10:42pm

Dedicated GPS devices are dying. I had one installed in my car for some time. But my recent mobile phone outdo the dedicated device in its function and purpose. Now i took down the dedicated device and rely on my phone instead.

Unless the GPS device came attached to the newly purchased car, there's really no point and no future for such device in the market.

Garmin, and other GPS companies should have lowered their prices while théy're still relevant a couple of years back, and make a killing before they become obsolete. Which is happening now. They've been too greedy in the recent past. And it's just that they die off.

It will be wiser to stick to the mobile phone strategy, and try to come up with sometime interesting for consumers to take notice.

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unitymind

September 12, 2010 at 11:06am

Well here is a smart idea...fire the people who thought it be cool to make a phone! Hire and promote the ones who designed the app and get it on the iphone and android asap. I would try to work with apple to get some of their circuits inside the iphone to get the thing super accurate.

jeremycobert

September 11, 2010 at 6:22pm

i do own 3 garmin GPS devices and will never buy another one. every smart phone pretty much comes with a map, my android google maps are perfectly fine for everyday use. if garmin came out with an Ap for it, i might be intrested, but i am not intrested in paying for yearly map updates. that old model of buisness is dying.

draconis123

September 11, 2010 at 4:44pm

What's a Garminfone? haha.