I love my geek wife.
Posted By matt on December 24, 2007
Completely badass.
- 2GB internal storage (comes loaded with about 1.5GB of stuff, mostly the map data and such)
- Comes with maps for all of USA and Canada.
- Reads you turn by turn directions, including street names.
- The antenna is really well designed. My handheld unit would barely get a signal on the dash of the car, this one gets a full signal sitting on the passenger seat next to me.
- SD card slot (not sure what this is used for, need to RTFM)
- Bluetooth integration (so it can be speakers and microphone for my cellphone – if my cellphone had Bluetooth.)
- Works in Linux – it is a USB mass storage device. Mount it, put crap on it. System software upgrade worked under Wine – no issues. I believe I can also set up way points and put them on the GPS via something like GPSBabel
- Lots of different icons to represent your car. (Suggest what I should use! Right now, we're using the rocket sled.
- Integration with traffic radio stations w/ optional kit.
Other nifty stuff that I'll never use:
- MP3 player (I have one)
- Audible book player (I have piles of stuff to listen to already)
Downside:
- Not waterproof/water resistant. This is okay – I have an “offroad” GPS which I use for geocaching which is waterproof to 1 meter and runs for like 12 hours on one set of AA batteries.
Only thing it lacks:
- You can't talk to it. Ironically, this is okay. The ones you can talk to kind of suck. The current state of voice software in these is kind of meh, according to the reviews. Whether it is discerning things from the road noise, or whatnot, they just don't get very good reviews.
Anyway, I'm going to go play with it now.
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