Are Garmin Mobile XT & Verizon TP2 a good fit?

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by kaos

best part is after you do it once. its on your sd. so after you upgrade roms again. just pop sd out push back in and garmin auto installs.

I agree, that is really nice. I used the "fix" & installed it to a 16 gig card when they first came out & it has worked in every PPC I have put it in ever since.

I'm not sure what is not to like about the interface, it is identical to a Garmin Nuvi (& Nuvi's are so simple to use I'm not even sure why they include an owners manual) + it gives you Google search/weather etc + traffic & there are literally thousands of free POI's you can use with Garmin stuff.

~John

[japper88]

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

[chong67]

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.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by chong67

Garmin XT software is terrible!

You like watching movie in jerky motion?

Well you will with the cursor on Garmin.

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

[mikenerd]

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.

[DLCPhoto]

Originally Posted by mikenerd

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!

[BooDaddy]

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

[jmorton10]

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

[New Daddy]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

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

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.

[BooDaddy]

Originally Posted by New Daddy

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.

+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.