Garmin 920
Yeah so no pictures yet, been busy with house stuff.
I did get a new toy the other day off of craigslist on the cheap, factory sealed. The guy had a pretty good story as to why he had it, so I’m telling myself it didn’t just fall of the back of a truck (they got a couple at cost then didn’t need them etc, meh, maybe).
It wasn’t that much cheaper then Amazon actually (a bit) but I could get it first thing in the morning and I really needed it to go find some place in Los Altos (charise needed her hybrid with the integrated one), so I’m calling it a win.
I have some mixed feelings on the unit over all, but it dose seem to be fairly solid for point A to point B type stuff and that is always critical detail and surprisingly not all companies get that little detail right :p. So here is a brief man on the street feature/impression type review as I discovered them.
Note the page breaks on the full article page. I’ll see if I can get a picture of my UI from it.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
The skins I like (there are a lot of cool night one’s) are:
Topographic (nice use of colors though I would have gone green arrows instead of blue, but I get the desire for the blue yellow contrast). This is for day and is the nicest color pack I have found.
I also liked de_bestofcolors_v3 but the contrast wasn’t as nice as with topo’.
For night I use alt-night.
The AA_atlas is ok too.
A couple other things. The under the hood hardware is pretty good. The screen refresh and tracking, zoom pan etc are all really pretty fast. I like that.
The hands free has a huge flaw. there is no quick dial screen. So you either have to parse the address book or home they are on a recent call list. this is bad, and dangerous. Voice dialing again would have been a better choice, but not having this type of home or speed dial is pretty short sighted IMO.
Something other devices have had that I think is needed partculary with the small ass fonts is the ability to touch the street names, particularly the now on at the bottom of the screen and have the text to speech say the name.
A lot of other folks have asked to be able to touch the POI’s on the 3d screen, I also think that would be keen.