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:<br><br><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_maps_navigation_the_killer_app_for_android_2.php">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_maps_navigation_the_killer_app_for_android_2.php</a><br>

<br>Tomtom and Garmin stocks plunged on the day of the announcement:<br><br><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=auEoMU5e2zTA">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=auEoMU5e2zTA</a><br>

<br>Saidi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Odhiambo Washington <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:41 PM, saidimu apale <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:saidimu@gmail.com" target="_blank">saidimu@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote">

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[snip]<div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

<br>- Google Voice (and their previous 1-800-<i>GOOG-411)</i> 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&#39;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)<br>



</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Hi Saidi,</div><div><br></div><div>Having looked at some Garmin GPS products, I feel greatly tempted to request you to elaborate on your judgement on Google&#39;s Andriod 2.0 vs Tomtom, Garmin, etc etc.</div>



<div>How does Android 2.0 pose a threat to them?</div></div><br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254733744121/+254722743223<br>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ <br>



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