With a smartphone and Android 2.0 (and now apparently Android 1.6 as well), you get everything a dedicated GPS product gives you (and more), all for free: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_maps_navigation_the_killer_app_f... Tomtom and Garmin stocks plunged on the day of the announcement: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=auEoMU5e2zTA Saidi On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:41 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
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- Google Voice (and their previous 1-800-*GOOG-411)* is there simply to collect your voice data and train their speech recognition-and-synthesis engines. Notice how good voice recognition is on Android 2.0's free turn-by-turn navigation? By the way, this last feature marked the beginning of the end for GPS-navigation companies (Tomtom, Garmin etc etc)
Hi Saidi,
Having looked at some Garmin GPS products, I feel greatly tempted to request you to elaborate on your judgement on Google's Andriod 2.0 vs Tomtom, Garmin, etc etc. How does Android 2.0 pose a threat to them?
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