Are Garmin Mobile XT & Verizon TP2 a good fit?

[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.

[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.

[x10guy]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

yea, that's the same as me actually.

I have an awesome double DIN 7" DVD/NAV built into my truck that is more accurate than any phone NAV, but I just like playing with stuff on the phone.

I have CoPilot 8 in the phone also which has an awesome interface, but their latest maps are like 10 years old.........

~John

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

[BooDaddy]

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

[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!

[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

[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

[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.