Anyone ever use/remember one of these?
I keep moving this around in my glove box. the batteries are dead, but back in the day it worked as designed. This was pre-modern day GPS. thought some of you may appreciate it. what you did was pu...
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Yes, received one as a gift. I think it could have actually had value for some people.
But I have never been much of a GPS type person, or even a cell phone person for that matter. We had this early device but never once used it.
I am on my second Garmin. I used my new Garmin twice in the year I have had it.
My son just got a new smart phone, and he was able to download the ability to use the phone as a GPS device for free. It uses the same data base that Garmin and Tom Tom use.
I would think in a couple of years the "modern day" GPS units will become ALMOST obsolete. They will be replaced by the smart phones, the same way laptops are largely being replaced by tablets.
But I have never been much of a GPS type person, or even a cell phone person for that matter. We had this early device but never once used it.
I am on my second Garmin. I used my new Garmin twice in the year I have had it.
My son just got a new smart phone, and he was able to download the ability to use the phone as a GPS device for free. It uses the same data base that Garmin and Tom Tom use.
I would think in a couple of years the "modern day" GPS units will become ALMOST obsolete. They will be replaced by the smart phones, the same way laptops are largely being replaced by tablets.
