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You need to have practical experience using all the types of navigation system to understand why they exist….[/quote]
I’ve had good and bad experiences with both Android and dedicated nav devices. I try to have a real map handy.
When driving a lonely highway through a remote forested area in northern California with no cell signal, the Magellan couldn’t get a GPS signal and stopped functioning, while the Droid X continued to operate (its nav had been activated back when there was a cell signal). I can understand the Droid working, but I don’t get how the Magellan would fail in the same circumstances – unless the Droid lost the GPS signal too but didn’t care and didn’t bother to tell me.
In the city, the Magellan once in a while routes me to turn where no street has ever existed. Data issue, I guess.
On the way to Palm Springs recently, the Droid never found a satellite in an hour of searching. Tried restarting, uninstalling map updates, etc. We did NOT have a real map (too reliant on tech!) and so had to find the address using only cell phone tower locations and wild guesses, which only added 15 minutes to the drive, but still, that was 15 minutes of drinking time.
Every Android update to my Droid X degrades its performance or otherwise screws things up.
