Product Review
The Motorola Motonav TN555 is really a quite, very nice GPS with couple of negatives. Initial, all the standards are here: voice prompting with street names and landmarks, a wealthy points-of-interest database, easy entry of new navigation points, Bluetooth integration with your cell phone, as well as a widescreen display. What sets it apart, although, are the extras. For 1 thing, the Motonav takes benefit of the Bluetooth connection to the your telephone, not merely to download contacts and act as a microphone, but to download information to the GPS. It does not use the phones data strategy, however, but a voice call, like an old analog modem. You can find pros and cons to this approach. On the plus side, you do not want an costly data program for the GPS nor do you might have to have a telephone that has one either (even though I do have an iPhone with one). On the negative side, it interrupts whatever else your telephone may be doing to create the call. Certainly, if you are already on a call, it won't function. And if you are using your iPhone to listen to music or podcasts, as an example, as I do when I'm driving, then those is going to be suspended although the GPS does its thing. As the only time I'm most likely to be manipulating the GPS to download info is when I'm stopped and parked, that is not a bad tradeoff for me. (Read More...)
