Comments on: Fossil Wristwatch & Garmin iQue 3600 Delayed
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RE: Too many delays
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If it gets delayed much longer, then Navigator for Palm OS will beat them to the punch and significantly reduce demand for the iQue. Navigator has 'on the fly' driving directions with spoken turn by turn instructions.
Truthfully?
Personally, I'd wish they'd **** or get off the pot. Developers have been hearing about the Garmin/Palm thing for years and something real is way, way past due.
RE: Too many delays
>Navigator for Palm OS
... is not a significant competitor because of the "fiddly bits" of having to deal with a separate GPS (and supplying power to it, too, and the cables). In this application, the integrated approach hold the trump cards.
RE: Too many delays
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David
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Ordinarily, I would agree. However, GPS's are special: the antenna often benefits greatly from being placed separately from the display. A Bluetooth GPS together with a Bluetooth PDA is probably the most convenient way of doing that.
I think the Garmin is primarily useful for handheld and "on-foot" applications.
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Vancouver, Canada (Driving)
Most of Switzerland (Driving)
Koln, Germany (Walking)
My experience is that the GPS works very well when you are in the middle of a road without too much high-rise buildings around you. However, when you are in a busy city, things could get ugly.
For those who knows about Vancouver, Canada. A drive thru Stanley Park where all the trees are, the GPS would most often loses sync with satellites. Also, depending on the time of day, driving through downtown Vancouver could also be a problem. In the city center of Koln, where most of the high-rises are, I had some problem using the streetpilot as a navigator...
Having said all that, I experience nearly no problem in Switzerland except when driving through tunnels. Now, what I can tell are the following about GPS in case some of you don't know how it works:
1) GPS requires at least three different satellite's timing signal in order to triangulate your location. (thus the word, "tri")
2) The timing signals are usually not that strong so trees and buildings could block the signal. I actually feel good about this or else I would worry about my brain getting fried by all these timing signal.
3) Satellite moves around the world so depending on the time of day and how many satellites are overhead, synchronization could become affected.
Since the PDA version of the GPS is aimed for people walking on the street as well as driving... I would suggest to people who are thinking of buying this device to wait for reviews and trials in big cities. Somehow, I don't have too much concerns about driving with the device but walking around in a city with mostly highrise could disappoint some users...
Anyway, I know nothing. :-)
Difference between Abacus & Fossil
RE: Difference between Abacus & Fossil
RE: Difference between Abacus & Fossil
By the way, what's "Nrand" and "bot"???
(Why do some people say you can kill two birds with one stone when it's hard enough killing one bird with two stones?)
RE: Difference between Abacus & Fossil
ABACUS is another brand that Fossil uses for marketing - so the're both Fossil.
Um...
By the way, I don't mean to be a spoiled sport, but Brighthand reported these delays a week ago...then again, it was a holiday last week, so I understand.
(Why do some people say you can kill two birds with one stone when it's hard enough killing one bird with two stones?)
So what?
YAWWWWWWWN!
Now where the hell is the WiFied 320x480 SGed PalmOS PDA, dammit?!!?
RE: So what?
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David
RE: So what?
My address was pretty much spam free... until I joined a couple Yahoo Groups. Now I get about a dozen a day. I will never join another Yahoo group :<
RE: So what?
Latest release date is now September. 2003?
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