<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Robert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rs@ale.spam.futz.org">rs@ale.spam.futz.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">>Get a droid phone, car power adapter and windshield-mount holder. The maps<br>
>are updated and the nav can show 3d or map view plus voice instructions. It<br>
>also accepts voice input.<br>
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</div>I don't recommend this. Google maps doesn't download the maps for your planned<br>
route, so if you hit an area where there is no data connection, you're out of<br>
luck. Very frustrating.<font color="#888888"></font><br></blockquote><div><br>This was true up until mid December of last year when Google released version 5.0 of Google Maps (specifically though I think we're talking about Google Navigation). The caveat is that you must have a data connection when you first start, so it doesn't help if you're in the middle of nowhere and want to plan a route. Rerouting still apparently works though. I haven't tried it, but it seems you could get away with no data plan and just start your route when you have wifi.<br>
<br>-Steve Brown <br></div></div>