[ale] OT: GPS/nav units?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:54 -0500, Mike Harrison wrote:
> > am thinking about getting one of these but thought this might be a good
> > group from which to solicit advice.
> 
> My wife and I fight over the TomTom720 I bought, I've also done a road 
> trip with it and a Garmin unit both (Chattanooga to Tampa and back, pretty 
> easy) and the driver (owner of the Garmin) is lusting after my TomTom.
> The TomTom seems "friendlier" than the Garmin.

	Check out the "Opentom" site and find out the TomTom is even friendlier
than you imagined.  Like to get shell on your TomTom?  It's running
Linux on an Arm processor.

> The blue-tooth headset capabilities don't work well in my Mini (too much 
> background noice) but do work well in my F150.
> The dialing/phonebook access works really well.

	Mike
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