Has the death of the GPS unit been greatly exaggerated?
Coming into this show, I was sure Id hear phone aficianado Chris Ziegler from EngadgetMobile and HowStuffWorks.com guru Jonathan Strickland expound to me about how the iPhone will do everything, and how stand-alone GPS devices were the next gadget to fall to the iPhones mighty app-store induced dominance. But, much like sports, we do the shows for a reason. Turns out, phone aficinados arent necessarily sold on the idea of smartphone-integrated GPS-centric wonderment. For one, the new turn-by-turn Tom Tom application, which is the impetus of this whole conversation, costs extremely close to the price of many bargain basement GPS units. And secondly, car drivers value the ability to be able to talk on the phone and use a GPS device at the same time without being interrupted. Two extremely right-on-the-money ideas, among the many that we talk about on the show, which you can watch right now. Are you in love with the all-in-one device, or would you rather have two distinct devices for calling and navigating? Sound off in the comments. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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In response: I think it HAS!