Multifunction units do a lot of things poorly, nothing well. Garmin is in
far more than cheap consumer GPS units.

"Burnie M" wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:30:06 -0800 (PST), claudegps
wrote:

Garmin seems well positioned

Why?
Garmin sells navigation systems that are now free from Google and
Nokia
(ok, they are not the same: Google and Nokia are on the smartphone
business, not really "navigators")

Tomtom and Nokia are the ones that spent billions on purchasing
mapping companies

But Nokia is going to use them and giving them for free to gain market
share in (smart)phone selling
while tomtom can only loose market share in the navigation market: if
you buy a smartphone with free navigation, are going to buy a TomTom
nav?


I have a Nokia E52 with the free mapping/routing

This product is significantly less than even the cheapest Garmin

Map screen readability is poor
Address entry is slow and tedious
Volume is way too low
No text to speech
No speed cameras


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