Garminfone: Amazing phone. Incredible offer. (Lifetime Map Updates free, starting in August for all registered Garminfone users

 

I had sort of forgot about this, but it looks like as a registered Garminfone user I am eligible for free Lifetime Map Updates. Does Garmin send an e-mail when the updates are available or is it up to me to find out when they are available?

http://view.email.garmin.com/?j=fe5e1574776d027d761c&m=fefb1...

http://garminfone.t-mobile.com/

"Garminfone: Amazing phone. Incredible offer.

If you’ve been considering updating your current phone, now’s a great time to take advantage of a limited-time offer from Garmin and T-Mobile. Garminfone is available today with a price that fits anyone's budget. This full-featured smartphone combines Garmin's world-leading navigation with the powerful Android™ platform.

With Garminfone by your side, you can navigate to an address from an email, text message or photograph. You can also find addresses, get both on-screen and voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions that speak street names, know your arrival time, and automatically reroute if you have to detour. And as an added benefit, we’ve now made Lifetime Map Updates¹ free, starting in August for all registered Garminfone users. That means you’ll always have access to the latest maps as they become available.

To learn more, visit us online or visit your local T-Mobile or Radio Shack store.

More info

1 Free LIfetime Map Updates entitle you to receive up to four (4) map data updates per year, when and as such updates are made available on the Garmin website, for this specific Garmin product only until this product’s useful life expires or Garmin no longer receives map data from its third party supplier, whichever is shorter. The updates you receive will be updates to the same geographic map data originally included with your Garmin product when originally purchased. In some instances, your Garmin product might not have sufficient memory remaining for you to load an update to the same map data originally included with your Garmin product, in which case you will need to either (a) select reduced map data coverage for your updates, or (b) purchase separately a microSD card or a SD card (as applicable to your Garmin product) and load all or a portion of the map data coverage for your updates to the card and insert the card into the microSD card or SD card slot contained in your Garmin product. Garmin may terminate your Lifetime Map Updates at any time if you violate any of the terms of this Agreement."

sounds great except......

Sounds like a terific deal. I would jump on such a deal if the service provider was Verizon. I have experience with every cell carrier and only Verizon gives me the coverage I need.

And no, I don't work for Verizon but I do travel all across the country.

You can't beat that.

You can't beat that.

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Charlie. Nuvi 265 WT and Nuvi 2597 LMT. MapFactor Navigator - Offline Maps & GPS.

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If I could get it unlocked to use in Canada, I'd be all the way there!

Nice deal, go for it.

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK

Garminfone From T-Mobile Now On Rogers!

Apparently it will work on Rogers. Check out Post # 129 and others by Spazmogen.

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1638376-Garmin-Nu...

I also hope they would have a CDMA version for Verizon and Sprint, but at this point I doubt that will ever happen. I have actually been looking at buying a used CDMA phone and putting some Page Plus Cellular airtime on it to have coverage when I am in very rural areas. (They are an MVNO offering service on Verizon. I suppose the best we could hope for in the future is for a Garmin application offered through the Android Market in the future that could be downloaded to CDMA (Verizon) phones.

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It needs a Universal sim, or going to the US to buy an unlocked device.

We'll see, but thanks for the info!

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK

I'd think twice

I wouldn't rush into this. This phone is about dead in the water sales-wise. Garmin is giving serious consideration to cutting their losses. That may be one reason, if not the only reason, that they're making this offer.

And then remember their "lifetime" traffic offer for earlier Nuvi models that was "guaranteed" to last until January, 2014. Until the email went out that said, in effect, "Did we say that? We really meant 2012. Our bad. Suck it up." evil

They did it once. They can do it again.

For fulltimers, Verizon is the best

I also have tried all carriers and have found Verizon to be the best by far for complete coverage throughout the USA. They aren't perfect, but they are far better than anyone else. I just bought a Droid 2 because it was available with Verizon.

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David Cross Garmin TravelSmart 86 Day after day as I try to remember, I find my forgetter working better and better.

Garminfone

There few issue with this Garminfone:

The battery won't last a day with average use.

Speed alert still not working even with firmware updated.

I had to order a replacement battery

The map can disappear after master clear. I had backed up everything so just copy the map back to the phone. But if you did not do backup, then you end up with a phone without map after masterclear.

stevennguyen wrote:

There few issue with this Garminfone:

The battery won't last a day with average use.

Speed alert still not working even with firmware updated.

Garminfone

Thanks for the info!! grin grin

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D.H.

Garminfone Android OS 2.1

Starting last night, some US Garminfone owners have been able to upgrade their Android OS to 2.1
http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/Garminfone/2-1-is-here/td-p/54...