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GARMIN 010-11034-00 Garmin Mobile Xt For Smartphones | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $107.13
Buy New: $70.66
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: n/a
Includes MP3 Player: 0
Shipping Weight (lbs): 20
Dimensions (in): 0.3 x 0.3 x 0.1
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 010-11034-00
Model: 010-11034-00
UPC: 753759075668
EAN: 0753759075668
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Route To A Specific Street Address Or Search Millions Of Points Of Interest | | • | Preloaded With City Navigator(R) Nt Maps & Navigation Software | | • | Supports A Wide Range Of Smartphones Including Devices Using Windows Mobile(Tm), Symbian(Tm) S60 (2Nd & 3Rd Editions) & Palm Treo(Tm) With Bluetooth(R) Technology | | • | Requires An Embedded GPS Or Bluetooth(R) GPS Receiver | | • | Includes Micro Secure Digital Card(Tm) With Adapters & Quick Start Manual |
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Product Description
Garmin Mobile XT helps make your Smartphone smarter. Add full-featured navigation to your GPS-enabled Smartphone with Garmin Mobile XT. Just plug this microSD data card into your compatible cell-phone and start navigating. With no monthly fees, preloaded maps, turn-by-turn directions, real-time services, this easy-to-use data card has everything you need to navigate to the front door of virtually any destination in North America. With no network coverage required, Garmin Mobile XT works anywhere. Simply plug the microSD card (with miniSD and standard SD card converters) into your compatible phone with built-in GPS and go. Since Garmin Mobile XT works outside your phone's coverage area, you'll get directions when you need them most. Packed with preloaded maps, millions of destinations and full GPS navigation capabilities, Garmin Mobile XT turns your phone into a powerful street navigator. Garmin Mobile XT includes access to a wide range of optional Garmin Online services such as traffic, weather, gas prices, hotel rates and more. Receive real-time traffic information from traffic.com about traffic tie-ups and road construction that lie ahead on your route and navigate around congestion. View hotel rates, ratings and availability information from hotels.com. With Garmin Mobile XT's PeerPoints feature, you can text message your position to any other phone as well as view and navigate to the location of Garmin Mobile XT users in your group.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 DRM Dead End: Beware of severe limitations of use December 1, 2007
44 out of 54 found this review helpful
When you buy this set of maps, you should be aware of its severe limitations of use. This set comes loaded with the maps on a 2gb micro SD card. The maps are loaded onto a LOCKED micro SD card. The maps CANNOT be moved over to your "normal" SD card. If you attempt to move them, they will not work. There is a one to one correspondance between the maps and the individual numbered card. Moreover, on a practical basis, they use your "hard drive" pocket PC slot EXCLUSIVELY.
For example, if you have an AT&T Tilt pocket PC Phone and you previously bought e.g., a SanDisk 6gb Micro SD card to hold your programs, music, videos, etc. you are out of luck.
YOU CANNOT LOAD THE XT MAPS TO THE 6GB CARD.
The maps are LOCKED into using only the 2gb micro SD card.
So, whenever you want to use the XT maps, you must remove your 6gb (or whatever micro SD card size you normally use for your files, programs, etc.) and insert the XT micro SD card.
The problem is that these micro SD cards are so tiny (the size of a pinky finger nail) that inevitably you will lose or misplace either your XT maps (sorry about the loss of an $85 micro SD card and all your maps) or you normal programs-music-videos-etc. card (sorry about losing your $70 micro SD card and all your music, video, etc.).
Garmin understood that these maps would need to be subject to DRM restrictions but chose to lock them to an individual card rather than an individual user. The result is that the maps require you only to use the Garmin micro SD card AND NONE OTHER.
Moreover, if the micro SD card on which they are loaded gets damaged or corrupted, you are out of luck. Your $85 are gone; go buy another set of maps. YOU CANNOT MAKE A BACKUP SET OF MAPS THAT WILL WORK. THE MAPS ARE LOCKED TO ONLY ONE micro SD card.
My conclusion: this method of using these maps may be useful to some persons who want only to put Garmin maps (AND NOTHING ELSE!) on their pocket PCs.
This is the silliness of the Garmin DRM method.
For most users, Garmin's DRM method is a complete dead end. Imagine if every application file on your PC required a separate hard drive.
You *CAN* transfer the map data to your own memory card January 26, 2008
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
Guys, in case you've never heard of it, there is this useful little website called 'google' that lets you search for all kinds of information. Including how to transfer the map data from Garmin Mobile XT onto your own memory card and use it without any problems. Here's one of those threads that details how to do it (not for the computer-shy though):
http://forums.wireless.att.com/cng/board/message?board.id=samsung&message.id=48856
 Perfect for my PDA March 17, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
A few months ago I purchased a HTC Advantage, which is a large PDA that was advertised as having TomTom software included at the store I visited. *This claim was from the retailer--not HTC.) TomTom was NOT included, and the retailer never made good on their promise to send it to me. Just as well--TomTom asks you to enter street name, then street number, which I find awkward.
My PDA has an internal GPS, so I ordered this software, expecting to be underwhelmed vs. a Garmin dedicated hardware device. On the contrary--it's awesome! Everything I'd expect from a dedicated device, including voice turn-by-turn directions. It even overrides my screen saver settings, so that the map is always visible while navigating. Once I exit Garmin's software, my screen saver goes back to the way I set it up for normal use.
I travel on business quite a bit, and until purchasing this package I had been using Microsoft Live Mobile, which fetches maps in real time over your mobile carrier data connection. But without voice prompts it was dangerous to look at while driving. Garmin's software gets me where I want to go without any issues around stealing a glance at the screen in heavy traffic.
A few weeks ago I wnet to New Zealand and Australia, and discovered that base maps for those two countries are also included. Not good for turn-by-turn, but got me out of a jam or two. BTW, at least in New Zealand the base map is out of calibration by a quarter mile or so.
The voice prompts are available in quite a few languages. I've only tried American English, British English, and Spanish.
Anything I don't like about it? Not really. Only annoyance has been email notifications that pop up while trying to enter addresses, or while navigating. Once under way, the voice prompts continue even when an email notification pops to the foreground. I just need to dial back on email. Right...
Make certain you order a cigarette lighter charger cord for your PDA, if you don't already have one. Running a PDA with the GPS and screen backlight on really eats power.
Oh, and the review trashing Garmin for locking the SD Card? I have a 8 GB hard drive on my unit so leaving the card in my PDA has never been an issue. However there are hacks available if you want to work around it.
And shopping around, others had better prices until I calculated in shipping. Amazon Prime got it to me for free.
Wonderfull product, beats everything else!! May 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I used this product with my the HTC touch cruise and worked perfectly well. I could transfer all my waypoints from a previous Garmin product in seconds using the latest Mapsource version. Just plugged the 2.0 GB plug and play SD card and the software was ready to use in seconds. Garmin also offers free traffic and weather updates with this product!
 Locked to supplied card makes product useless January 31, 2008
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
The Garmin Mobile XT comes on a 2GB micro SD card with adapters for mini and the full size card included. The software is locked to the supplied card. This is very convinient if you do not plan to use your SD card slot on your phone for anything but the Garmin Mobile XT. It proofes the product useless if you actually want to use it in order to save for instance pictures, videos, email or music on your SD card since then you need to swap those tiny cards each time you want to use the Garmin Mobile XT. Unfortunately if you do this too often the little contacts will break and you cannot use either card. Or you do not have the card handy when you need it. Garmin customer service refuses to give out an unlock code, which would make it possible to move the files from the to 3/4 full 2GB card, which ships with the Garmin Mobile XT, to something like a 4GB or 8GB card.
Bottom line, this product for all practical matters is uselss. I recommend using your mobile phone provider's subscription GPS service or another GPS software such as Tomtom.
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