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Originally Posted by nmhusa
Fixed now. Can be installed on any sized microsd card. Just google for the fix or ask a nice person to help you if you are a google novice.
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Good thing, because iGuidance 2009 may be the best option after all. I tried TeleNav ("Sprint Navigation"). The live traffic feature was nice (though I didn't get a chance to see how well it worked under different conditions). I might have tolerated TeleNav despite its constant covering the map for several seconds with useless status information such as "downloading route", huge, full-screen prompts that ask you what street you are on if the GPS isn't sure (hello?? I'm driving? pick the nearest one automatically!), or the search for POI along route which doesn't work at all (I enter a name, and the search results are basically random and have none of the words in my search, even though I know that place exists multiple times within a mile or two of my route).
But at some points, it just declares (paraphrasing, not exact error message) "You have deviated from the route, now ending route session."
Excuse me? What made it decide that I wanted to exit? The whole
point of using a GPS, over printed directions, is that you can deviate at your freedom and as soon as you need its help, you just start following it again. Maybe I want to take a detour and not program it in. In my case, I was in poor GPS reception because I was downtown around skyscrapers, and it kept jumping around, and I was fully attempting to follow its route!
That reminds me of when TeleNav first launched on Nextel, the pay-as-you-go billing option was pay-per-route, rather than pay-per-day. You were billed for an additional route if you deviated from the instructions merely
three times.
They just don't get it.
Will be unsubscribing from this before the first month is up. Oh well, back to iGuidance. May as well buy the 2009 upgrade. No live traffic, but at least stability and no network requirement. And hopefully will get around the SD card lock.