[ale] OT: GPS/nav units?

[Michael H. Warfield]

Forgot the URL...  Ooopppsss...

	http://www.opentom.org/Main_Page

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:11 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:54 -0500, Mike Harrison wrote:
> > > am thinking about getting one of these but thought this might be a good
> > > group from which to solicit advice.
> > 
> > My wife and I fight over the TomTom720 I bought, I've also done a road 
> > trip with it and a Garmin unit both (Chattanooga to Tampa and back, pretty 
> > easy) and the driver (owner of the Garmin) is lusting after my TomTom.
> > The TomTom seems "friendlier" than the Garmin.
> 
> 	Check out the "Opentom" site and find out the TomTom is even friendlier
> than you imagined.  Like to get shell on your TomTom?  It's running
> Linux on an Arm processor.
> 
> > The blue-tooth headset capabilities don't work well in my Mini (too much 
> > background noice) but do work well in my F150.
> > The dialing/phonebook access works really well.
> 
> 	Mike
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