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Posted by Albert Nurick on September 13, 2005, 6:00 pm


allory wrote:

> Garmin Introduces the nüvi - the Ultimate Travel Companion
>
> http://www.garmin.com/products/nuvi/
>
>
> Press release:
>
> http://www.garmin.com/pressroom/mobile/091205.html

One great thing: Nuvi uses SD cards, not proprietary Garmin cards.

Bravo, Garmin, and thanks for listening.

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Posted by Albert Nurick on September 13, 2005, 9:05 pm


dtong22@yahoo.com wrote:

> Albert wrote:
> > One great thing: Nuvi uses SD cards, not proprietary Garmin cards.
>
> > Bravo, Garmin, and thanks for listening.
>
> Why not you thank the competition.

Why? I don't see "Globalsat" as Garmin's competition; I've never seen
'em in a store at all. Magellan, on the other hand...

(Do you work for these guys? You seem a wee bit obsessed with them.)

> This being one new kid on the block:
>
> http://www.globalsat.com.tw/english/products_detail.php?main_id=20&p_i
> d=121
>
> Garmin does not have any alternative. Both the PPc format and Phone
> gps are coming in waves in the next few months. And they know it.

Whenever I see a product like this one, I feel bad for the engineers.
One thing I've learned is that a cool product is only part of the
battle; you need marketing, a sales channel, support, etc. Maybe these
guys should be OEMing to Dell or HP?

> nüvi is the first in the dedicated gps units not quite dedicated at
> all. They are to get some of traditionally ppc functions.

Multifunction is good, as long as it doesn't compromise the base
functionality, and as long as each function is complete. (I've never
seen a PPC-based music player that's even close to the iPod, for
example.)

> Remember those 8m or 16 m cards at $100 plus . Now you can junk them
> all.

Thank goodness. Most folks I know who have Garmins never bought other
cards, though.

> First they started off with gps 10 which can co-exists with others'
> hardware+software.
>
> Now a repackaged 26xx series with other multifunctions. Who would
> buy 26xx series now?

Um, someone who wants an excellent car navigation system?

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Posted by Phil Wheeler on September 13, 2005, 10:45 pm


Albert Nurick wrote:
>
>>Now a repackaged 26xx series with other multifunctions. Who would
>>buy 26xx series now?
>
>
> Um, someone who wants an excellent car navigation system?
>

Absolutely. I'm still using my SP-III with good results. The 2610
would work at least as well .. and, given I have six 1 GB CF cards, lots
more map coverage.

Phil

Posted by GSV Three Minds in a Can on September 14, 2005, 4:13 pm


>Probably a bigger concern for Garmin is the entry of Sony with their
>NVX-P1 unit. A main-stream consumer products manufacturer is now in the
>market.

Were I Garmin (or Magellan) that'd be my concern - Sony/Ericsson
starting from the 3G phone could eat most of the cheap GPS market (along
with the cheap digital camera, MP3 player, and PDA markets).

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Posted by GSV Three Minds in a Can on September 15, 2005, 8:09 am


the wonderful person dtong22@yahoo.com said
>Gsv
> >Sony/Ericsson
> >starting from the 3G phone could eat most of the cheap GPS market
>(along
> >with the cheap digital camera, MP3 player, and PDA markets).
>It may be a little while down the road.
>These two newsgroup have been dominated by gps fans a lot of whom still
>believe that if the device is not a dedicated one ( Waterproof to IEC
>60529 IPX7 standards) it is not a gps.

I'm more worried about the 'can't field replace batteries' aspect of
most modern phones .. Li-ION built in batteries are a PITA for several
oft he applications (actually including 'mobile phone' IMO)

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