ALK partners with T-Mobile, HTC and Microsoft to support the 2006 Gumball Rally

[Jerry Raia]

http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=3021

"ALK Technologies recently announced that for the second year running it is the Official Navigation Sponsor of the Gumball Rally, the 'World's most Glamorous Rally' which sees 240 drivers in 120 supercars travel 3,000 miles across 3 continents in just 8 days...Participants such as Pink, Tony Hawk, MTV's Bam Margera and Ryan Dunn, Martine McCutcheon and Jodie Kidd will be able to find the way from stop to stop and party to party easily, using CoPilot Live mobile phone satellite navigation, which will be supplied preloaded on the latest HTC manufactured Windows Mobile 5.0-based Smartphones from T-Mobile. Maps of the entire route are preloaded, so drivers can simply key-in the destination and start driving. CoPilot will calculate the entire route in seconds and provide turn-by-turn voice guidance."

This is pretty cool but how many of you actually use your Smartphones for GPS navigation? I find the screen a bit too small myself.

[Jerry Raia]

http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=3021

"ALK Technologies recently announced that for the second year running it is the Official Navigation Sponsor of the Gumball Rally, the 'World's most Glamorous Rally' which sees 240 drivers in 120 supercars travel 3,000 miles across 3 continents in just 8 days...Participants such as Pink, Tony Hawk, MTV's Bam Margera and Ryan Dunn, Martine McCutcheon and Jodie Kidd will be able to find the way from stop to stop and party to party easily, using CoPilot Live mobile phone satellite navigation, which will be supplied preloaded on the latest HTC manufactured Windows Mobile 5.0-based Smartphones from T-Mobile. Maps of the entire route are preloaded, so drivers can simply key-in the destination and start driving. CoPilot will calculate the entire route in seconds and provide turn-by-turn voice guidance."

This is pretty cool but how many of you actually use your Smartphones for GPS navigation? I find the screen a bit too small myself.

[Mike Temporale]

Nah, I don't use my GPS for much of anything. I think it's just too much hassle to get everything setup, turned on, and running each and every time I get in the car.

[Jerry Raia]

That's where I'm at too. It's more of a toy.

[vjay]

Im using nav4all on my phone and yeah the screen is small. But it can talk so that makes it up for the inconvenience. Although im not using it often, its quite usefill when im going to strange places