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#1 User is offline   Ken Gracey 

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Posted 24 June 2012 - 05:56 PM

I purchased a new Garmin GPS today, its called a Garmin nüvi 3490LMT today, it sort of looks like an iPhone, and the screen even scrolls like an iPhone, as well as rotates like, (you guessed it and iPhone), and it cost nearly as much :(

But what it does that the iPhone can't for the price, is understand our Aussie language ( correctly) when the screen is dull or sleeping you say, WAKE UP, and the screen awakens, and it eagerly awaits our next command. (Brilliant).

You then say, navigate to a suburb, before you can blink it wants the street address, so you tell it the street and number, and like a dog waiting for its bone it obeys your every command, perfectly, you can even ask it to direct you to the closest servo, who has the lowest price petrol, or take to the local restaurant, hospital, doctor, shopping centre, bank, ATM, sporting ground, hotel, the list is almost endless, all without touching the screen once.

It has blue tooth, so it can even make voice calls to people in your iPhones contact list, again without touching anything, the list of things it can do is endless.

So apple if a GPS can do all this why can't Siri, I don't even think have these features are built into iOS 6 ?

If my GPS could dial and make phone calls without being connected to my iPhone, my iPhone would be going in the bin.

Did i say the thing is Brilliant, and for a guy like me who does 1000 plus kilometres per week, i would have paid double what this thing cost me for the convenience, plus the added safety of knowing inspector plod, is not going to fine me $233 for touching my iPhone or my GPS while driving :050:
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Posted 25 June 2012 - 07:30 PM

the difference is this Garmin is just accepting commands it doesn't understand questions, thats the difference.
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Posted 25 June 2012 - 07:45 PM

Yes and No, JZ,

The thing has a very tiny memory capacity, I think its about 512meg, but it tells me in advance of any breakdowns on my journey, including if there has been an accident, a flat tyre, a flooded road way, bush fire, or just about anything else that will slow your trip, plus you can type in different voice commands which it learns, plus once you start a trip to see a customer say every monday, the thing will pre plot your journey for you without you lifting a finger, it actually learns your routine, after using the thing today for 9 hours start, I absolutely love this thing.

If Siri could do half as much and learn 10% of what this little marvel has learned today, I would be blown away.

O and plus the battery lasts 4 hours without a charge, while you are using it, (try that on your iPhone) with GPS running, plus it lasts 30 days in sleep mode :D
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Posted 26 June 2012 - 11:07 AM

View PostJZ®, on 25 June 2012 - 06:30 PM, said:

the difference is this Garmin is just accepting commands it doesn't understand questions, thats the difference.


Siri could do worse than learn how to accept commands.
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Posted 05 July 2012 - 10:17 PM

Saw this pic on Epic Fail and instantly thought of you Ken as I know you think Siri is awesome ;)

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Posted 05 July 2012 - 11:36 PM

lol
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Posted 06 July 2012 - 07:41 AM

Sounds about Right :P
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Posted 06 July 2012 - 04:37 PM

Classic.
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Posted 06 July 2012 - 05:56 PM

Just an update, garmin is defiantly smarter than Siri, all I have to do is say navigate to, and the garmin instantly awaits your voice command, no buttons to press no delay, no connecting to the Internet. And you can even type in any command you like, to use voice activation, too easy.
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