A hundred bucks turns a BlackBerry into a Garmin navigator

By lifetime, I wonder what they mean....lifetime of the phone? Will I be able to use BB's Desktop manager software to back-up the application on one BB, and restore it to a new one? Some day, I may find out....

It does work on an Alltel BB-Curve in case anyone out there is interested...

With this offering to R.I.M. and Garmin's various offerings of mobile connectivity to other phones with and without GPS...will garmin still develop their nuviphone in the near future? From what I read over the internet, the nuviphone sure sounds tempting.

They'll probably keep going with it...to bad it's a GSM phone, and not a CDMA phone...

As for Garmin getting other stuff out into cell phones...the more of their stuff out there, the better for them.

I experimented with my BB-Curve & Garmin Mobile...if I had never used a Nuvi, I would think it was a great product...but having used Nuvis, I can report that Garmin Mobile will get the job done, but - if you want it done well - a Nuvi is the way to go.

Doesn't AT&T provide the GPS function for $10./month? Does anyone know if there will be a difference between what Garmin offers versus what AT&T provides?

Thanks,
Henry

works well on the Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms. The real question on the Blackberry would be what it does with Curve 8310s that have the GPS locked? The AT&T GPS usually doesn't work with third party software, nor does Verizon.

I do wish Mobile XT would do TTS for spoken street names. That is a NUVI feature that is very handy.

I don't like it. too much for a phone to do. it's bad enough with the email, phone, internet and camera all in one but to add GPS directions not for me. I like my stand alone GPS.

GSM is the World Standard. CDMA is used in VERY FEW places outside the USA. If I remember correctly China, S. Korea and Japan are about the countries that use CDMA and your USA phone WILL NOT work in S. Korea or Japan. It might roam in China on China Unicom. China is also migrating to GSM and will at some point stop CDMA.

It's going the way of the dinosaur, and I don't go places where my CDMA phone(s) won't work.

And for the next generation of phones, it looks like the standard is going to be LTE.

If the GPS feature of the Blackberry is based on the cell towers, what happens if you're in a dead spot. No phone & no GPS, you're gonna be lost in an unfamiliar place.

Although cell phones have evolved into all in one devices that perform the functions of phones, PDA's and laptops, I am reluctant to use one for a GPS at this time. As someone stated in this thread, cell phones are still prone to dead spots and that wouldn't be pretty if you are depending upon it for turn by turn directions.

The newest BBs have GPS receivers in them that the Garmin Mobile software uses....where you will be "lost" in a dead zone is when the map won't update because you've lost the data signal.

I used a Treo with a bluetooth gps reciever and having your phone be your gps is not the best idea anyone ever had. it alwasy seemed to me that I got a phone call before a critical turn..some things work better alone. I would not suggest anyone depending on the phone and the gps not go this route.

I would think that the users should not depend that highly on either that if they got a phone call they would miss a turn. Hit ignore and you are back to the GPS in seconds. If you missed your turn that quickly, you wasn't paying attention to the voice commands anyway. The most important thing people can do on trips is know your route BEFORE you even get in the car. Also as antique as it sounds, always keep a paper road map in your car on trips where you are unfamiliar with the territory.

I have the Blackberry Curve 8330 with US Cellular. I called Garmin and asked about the lifetime thing, and what if I lost or the phone had to be repaired and they replaced it. The tech support told me they allow for 1 change and that is it. You would have to load the trialware in the new phone, call Garmin and get a new code. After that, you would need to repurchase it. Oh I would imagine it would work on any phone that has a data plan. But the phone company can block the GPS feature. Which in turns you would need to find the code to unlock your phone.