Garmin, maker of standalone and other GPS-focussed devices, has launched Mobile XT, a complete microSD-based navigation solution for smartphones, priced at $99. Details of international availability are sketchy at the moment, but we've asked Garmin UK if they can get hold of a review sample for us to try.
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Nice one, i do hope its compatible with Symbian S60.
Will be nice to use an alternative to TomTom Mobile, but i feel it will be hard to beat.
Regards,
Darren.
Belfast.
Mine is arriving on Monday, and will post what i think in the N95 forum.
If you go over to the Malaysian Singapore Maps forum, some of the members are already running Garmin XT on their S60 phones. A lot of us here have been waiting for the GXT to arrive, because our maps are mostly in the garmin file format.
Head over and have a look.. www dot malsingmaps dot com
This seems like quite a bit of cash for basically a load of maps on a SD card.
Nokia Maps is already free and 'Nokia Map Loader' will load the maps onto a memory card.
Although... being a mac user (there's no Mac version of Map Loader) & borrowing a friends PC last night to be told it'd take a gazillion hours to download just England... Maybe it's not so much money after all.
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Got it, tried it, not as good as navigon IMO.
Its ok, but address interface is very clunky, didnt recognise a few very solid (by solid I mean been there for ages and havent changed in any way or location) postcodes, and the routing isnt quite right.
Sigh, back to waiting for tomtom.