Re: OT

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On 2026-08-20 18:05, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> On 2026/8/20 16:41:47, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> J. P. Gilliver <[email protected]> wrote:


>>    A long, long time ago, in Australia, I was about to buy my first
>> dedicated navigation device, but hesitated several times. Eventually I
>> bit the bullet and bought my very first 'smartphone', with a whopping
>> '4GB' - actually 1GB 'free', if that 'much' - (non-volatile) storage.
>> Added a MicroSD card for the maps and never looked back.
>>
>>    But, as always, YMMV/YMWV.
> 
> I would imagine smartphones - plus the incorporation of SatNavs into new
> cars (are they a standard thing these days? I rarely buy a car - mine's
> twenty this half) - has more or less done for standalone devices, except
> for people wanting to drive old cars in areas where there's no cellular
> coverage, which can't be a very big market, so the price of standalones
> has probably rocketed.

I rented a car this past week, a Fiat 600e, and it had both TomTom 
navigation and Android Auto included in the large secondary screen.

According to <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bTofng6Hjo> TomTom is 
dead. But I looked at their website and they are selling several 
hardware models, some of them for profesional drivers.

One new feature (for me) is entering in the config the size and weight 
of the vehicle.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
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