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Re: Are Garmin Mobile XT & Verizon TP2 a good fit?

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Originally Posted by mikenerd View Post
i use it on a stock vzn rom and its good enough when Im not in my own car which has a Nuvi. i dont like the traffic option, it was always to sensitive and would have me get on and off the highway with no visible traffic issues.
To the original poster: I'm Alltel to Verizon, still with Alltel Plan, and am pretty satisfied with Garmin XT on my TP2. Perhaps slightly lag, but pretty smooth.

milkenerd's - your comments on Traffic caught my attention. I recently traveled from near Charlotte, NC up I-77 to Blacksburg, VA and Garmin was convinced that I-77 Northbound was closed up near the VA border because of an accident (and therefore routed us around it, with an extra 10-15 minutes in travel). (You can dig in and find what its traffic information is.)

I decided to ignore it, and found absolutely no accident. Some evidence of perhaps day-time construction, but not even a slow-down.

Does anybody know where Garmin gets its 'real-time' traffic information from? In this case, it was obviously unreliable!
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