Garmin Mobile XT
Garmin’s Mobile XT sounds like a winner on paper: Turn your GPS-enabled smart phone into a portable navigator, ensuring that you always have Garmin-quality directions on hand when you need them. But in practice the Mobile XT has some serious shortcomings. From a company that’s earned a reputation for quality, this is a pothole on an otherwise smooth road.
Loading the software is a snap: Just insert the card and the program starts. You can also tap a Mobile XT icon on your smart phone’s home screen. During our testing the device often took several minutes to acquire enough GPS satellites to pinpoint or position, compared with plug-in GPS devices. Worse, it didn’t improve with repeated use.
your favorite GPS team ever — is to drop some serious map-styles all over your mobile phone. The company today announced a new set of microSD cards preloaded with its navigation software and standard maps of the US or Europe. The cards will turn your average, boring, ugly phone into a bona fide GPS superstar. Dubbed the Garmin Mobile XT, the card will tout all of the features of a typical hardware Garmin GPS unit, like turn-by-turn directions, route planning, and voice prompts.
Garmin Mobile XT UK/IRELAND is an all-in-one software solution preloaded on a microSD card (with miniSD and standard SD card converters) that turns smartphones with built-in GPS into high-end Garmin navigators. Unlike other mobile phone applications, Garmin Mobile XT requires no monthly subscription and includes access to premium real-time traffic alerts and other dynamic content at no additional cost.
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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by admin
Filed under: GPS Guide
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