Sounds like one of those commercials...lol. How 'bout opinions on I-Phones vs. Android Phones?
Fred, there is NO reason to pay $10 month for GPS. They've been raping ya. If you don't like the integrated system simply buy the TomTom app. Having said that, if you do a lot of travel to different locations a dedicated GPS is the way to go. Check Amazon, get a refurb unit with lifetime traffic. Don't know if you are aware but the "lifetime traffic" is built into the cable that connects the unit to your power outlet in your car. It is not assigned to any specific GPS, so if you get a different unit later you can use that cord to provide the traffic. Also note, of course, that with this system you will have to have the unit plugged into a power outlet in the car for traffic to work. If you plug the unit in at home and charge it, then use battery only on the road - well that would be a problem.
Ok. I have had iphone, iphone 3G and currently iphone 3GS, so I have been pretty loyal. Most of my employees chose the iphone option though two did choose Droid. So I have a lot of experience with iphone. The iphone is great. Stable, doesn't crash, has great apps available for free or low cost. It has an incredible easy interface and set up is a breeze. Negatives include being stuck itunes. Dear God itunes sucks so bad. What a fat, bloated, slow system! And you MUST use it update your OS and firmware. No over the air updates. You can buy apps and tunes over the air. Also, with iphone you are stuck with AT&T. Frankly, I like AT&T and have had great service with them. Data has been great everywhere except in NYC but I hear that they got that bandwidth issue addressed there.
Having said all of that, I am seriously considering a droid product for my next phone. With droid you are not tied into a proprietary system. Even something as simple as having an on board storage slot for microSD cards is awesome and something Apple will apparently never consider. Being able to load songs, movies, etc to the device via cable connection or via microSD card is huge. No longer would I have to populate the music into itunes, then sync it to my phone. The HTC droid phone with HDMI out is wicked cool for the frequent traveler who wants to carry their porn (or other movies I guess) to hotels to watch on the hotel TV's that all have vacant HDMI connections. Then is saw the Dell Streak. That thing is wicked cool. Kind of like a cross between an iphone and ipad in size. Really cool. If it has sd slot and HDMI I am done and will be a convert.
