Best Navigation Software for TP2?

[scoot0073]

Garmin Mobile XT works great on my TP2....been usein it for about 3 mths now

[aaron580]

tomtom with the fixed cab works amazing for me thats all ive ever used for the past 2 years and never failed once.

[AB33]

Originally Posted by wildpig

Sprint nav, Gmap, binq all have a common Achille's heel: They all require you to have active datalink for map downloading in realtime.

TP, Titan have GPS which can function in both standalone mode (you can turn the phone connection and datalink off and gps still works,just take longer to acquire sats and possibly not as accurate) as well as the usual assisted mode

Which is why it's good to have nav prog w/ dataset on yr phone like igo or garmin

Thanks for the insight, I was not aware of those differences. You just added to my body of knowledge. +1

[AB33]

Originally Posted by wildpig

It's a pity that such basic knowledge regarding gps is not common among a lot of people out there who will get duped into thinking all gps in phones are all the same.

I think it's these things which require consumer naiveness which allows certain companies to sell products which doesn't have multitask and cut&paste.

Need I say more?

You would be surprised at how few people understand the differences between the GPS functions of Sprint Nav, Bing, Gmaps, etc. versus Iguidance, iGo, etc. which can be stand alone systems. I think many people understood it better when Palm and Window phones would have to buy the separate GPS bluetooth puck to go with a Memory card. When it became available on the phones themselves we didn't get the memo on the differences...LOL
Consider yourself one of the lucky minority along with others who have offered positive insight to this topic who have been able to decipher the differences. Now I can join that minority and educate others in a positive manner.

[HBOOT]

Welcome AB and enlighten others when you can, peace out.

[wildpig]

Got Igo8.3 installed w/ TTS. Worked great s0 far. See separate thread for detail.

Was using Igo2006 on TP but couldn't get that to work so I had to upgrade to Ig08.3

[joe50000]

The Bing app is pretty good, although the Bing app can be really stupid sometimes when it's trying to find your destination.

[karate134]

I just made a 1500+ Mile trip (got back an hour ago) using the Free Bing app. Worked well for me.

[wildpig]

Originally Posted by karate134

I just made a 1500+ Mile trip (got back an
hour ago) using the Free Bing app. Worked well for me.

Guess that's proof of sprint network coverage being real good?!

Just pray you don't get to areas w/ no EvDo signal, then bing is useless

[gmfeny]

does GarminXT have tts