Garmin XT

[poonam316]

I've heard about this program called Garmin Mobile XT which will turn your Touch Pro into a navigation unit. I was wanting to know if any of you users have any experience using this on your TP. Does it work through 3g technology? How wouldI exactly get it onlto my phone?

[SporkLover]

I just loaded it onto my phone. Nice package. I like it more than TomTom7 so far.

It searches the internet for locations, which makes it real nice. One thing I hated about TT6 or TT7 was the reliance on custom POI files.

[dsibarra72]

works great on My TP only thing I dont like is that it does not say street names, ie turn left at "main St".

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by dsibarra72

works great on My TP only thing I dont like is that it does not say street names, ie turn left at "main St".

Yea, it doesn't support TTS (text to speech) but I don't think any WM NAV program supports that (I may be wrong on that)

I do LOVE Garmin XT & it works awesome in my TouchPro. The one thing that really really irritates me however is after legally buying the program (& it's not cheap) I still have to use a crack to get it to run from my 16 gig Sandisk card................

~John

[Jackietreehorn]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

Yea, it doesn't support TTS (text to speech) but I don't think any WM NAV program supports that (I may be wrong on that)

I do LOVE Garmin XT & it works awesome in my TouchPro. The one thing that really really irritates me however is after legally buying the program (& it's not cheap) I still have to use a crack to get it to run from my 16 gig Sandisk card................

~John

Hey, that's not a bad idea. I've been thinking of getting it, but didn't want to have to use their sd card and not be able to have my own...maybe I should look for one too. That's been the biggest thing stopping me from picking it up. Thanks for the heads up.

[racemepls]

Out of curiosity, what features make garmin better than than sprints telenav?

[lafester]

Originally Posted by racemepls

Out of curiosity, what features make garmin better than than sprints telenav?

garmin or tomtom etc do not rely on a data connection to work. if you are travelling it is quite likely that you will lose data at some point and your gps would be useless.

[slypher]

Originally Posted by racemepls

Out of curiosity, what features make garmin better than than sprints telenav?

Google Search FTW!! This means that you don't really have to worry about having the most up to date data file for finding that new restaurant

Garmin XT also allows you to locate the cheapest gas prices close to you (by grade, which most apps don't do).

Also tells you traffic info, overall a very complete product except for TTS (which is hard to come by on the PPC).

-s

[cal_j]

Originally Posted by racemepls

Out of curiosity, what features make garmin better than than sprints telenav?

Telenav lied to me this weekend. Ended up taking the completly wrong turn. I had garmin xt on my touch and loved it. Now that I have built in GPS I'll probably go back to it again.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by Jackietreehorn

Hey, that's not a bad idea. I've been thinking of getting it, but didn't want to have to use their sd card and not be able to have my own...maybe I should look for one too. That's been the biggest thing stopping me from picking it up. Thanks for the heads up.

PM me, that stopped me from buying it for the longest time also........

~John