Garmin units were never for finding your routes on a road through town. They are for finding your route through 200 miles of first-growth forest, staking your claim, then being able to return without getting lost and dying of starvation. They were for finding your favourite fishing spot, 300 nautical miles of the coast of nowhere, to find each of the 350 crab traps you set over 200 sq miles of ocean.

Tomtom is scared, Garmin is not. Street routing is something they added on, not their only reason for being.

Hey, I think the demo was awesome too, but lets be realistic here...

Apple and Google had a falling out over maps on the iPhone, so don't expect this to ever show up on that device. Apple is attempting to go it alone for maps now, which might be a poor result considering how good Google Maps was on the iPhone. What it will hurt are commercial GPS apps on the iPhone.

In the meantime, for reasons shole stated this will NOT be the death of normal GPS. A standalone device can be had now for $100-$150 when an Android phone is significantly higher priced not to mention the monthly fee. Your standalone device will literally work in the middle of nowhere and your Android is tied to your mobile cell coverage. No signal = no maps. Standalone GPS devices were hot items for Christmas because of convenience, low cost, and they have significantly better battery life than your average smartphone.

I can only hope though it also improves the quality of said standalone devices, which have their own problems like charging far too much for map updates and/or clunky + slow interfaces that respond as well as attempting to swim through mud. If Google released a non-Android GPS that did what this demo does in a say a $200 device, THEN Garmin/Tomtom can start to panic.

Countdown to patent violation lawsuits and injunction requests from Garmin, Magellan and TomTom in 3...2...1

LOL at the description. I'll buy the first Garmin where this comes as a feature.

Will someone please buy that guy a Garmin for Christmas?

http://rpdaily.blogspot.com/2007/11/glenn-beck-calls-ron-paul-supporters.html

Glenn Back implied that any person who supports Ron Paul is a terrorist. Yes...thats bullshit, but this just means we are now in the attack phase of the campaign, and we'll see a ton more crap like this just because we are a real threat now.

So the best way to deal with this is not to attack Beck or CNN...we all know they are just trolling for attention. Beck's show has been sliding in the ratings, and its time to put the final nail in the coffin. Take 5 minutes out of your day, and contact any of the following companies...and tell them you'll boycott their products until they pull their advertisement from Beck's program.

We need to make an example out of Beck, for all future talking heads that will dare call Americans terrorists just because they are supporting Ron Paul.

Here is a list of advertisers who advertise on his program.
Marriot
Cialis x2 1-877-242-5471
U.S. Trust (part of Bank of America)
Verizon
Geico
Honda 800-999-1009
Lunesta
American Express x3 877-890-2639
Garmin
Schwab Bank 866-855-9102
Leaglzoom 323-962-8600 or 800-773-0888
Joesph A Bank Clothiers (JoB Clothiers) x2 1-800-999-7472
Bayer
American Express
LL Bean
TD Ameritrade
Progressive
Americaspower.org (some Coal lobbyist group)
Lincoln
Farmer's
Glass Doctor
Walgreens
Lexmark x2 859-232-2221
Liberty Mutual 617-357-9500
Volvo
Hyundai 800-633-5151
Direct Buy 800-988-6049
AARP 800-852-0879
Yellowbook 1-800-YB-YELLOW
Lazyboy
Lending Tree 800-555-8733
Edward Jones 314-515-3269

visit this link to get the hyperlinks for the rest of the contacts mentioned above

http://rpdaily.blogspot.com/2007/11/glenn-beck-calls-ron-paul-supporters.html

And then go to http://www.teaparty07.com and sign the pledge to give $100 to Ron Paul on December 16th.