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

Garmin XT has worked without any problems for me on stock sprint rom, energyrom, and mightyrom.

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

Garmin XT software is terrible!

You like watching movie in jerky motion?

Well you will with the cursor on Garmin.

Get TomTom7 or the best is iGo8.

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

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.

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

Yeah I noticed that too. Copilot really works nice. Hoping that they'll offer a free map update perhaps in 2010.

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

I am running MobileXT on my Stock Sprint rom TP2 without any problems at all. It works great :)

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

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!

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

I have never found ANY traffic info to be particularly useful & I have tried a few different services.

NONE of them are ever up to date enough to be really useful IMHO

~John

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

Everybody's system is different, but that has not been the case at all for me (& I have used XT since my early xv6800 days)

~John

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

I second it.
I still take a detour when there is a report of back-up just out of abundance of caution, unless it's a long detour, though.
I think these traffic info services may be trying to err on the conservative side.
It was surprising that even Google Maps traffic info is often wrong.

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

+1 on the janky traffic updates. Honestly, I use all the other "live" features of mobile XT more than traffic. The integrated google search is cool, and being able to check flight times and delays is handy.