Garmin Mobile Gps Receiver Smartphone

Time to smarten up that smartphone of yours by adding powerful GPS navigation and hands-free calling capabilities. The Garmin Mobile 20 is a Bluetooth-enabled wireless GPS navigation system that supports Nokia, Windows Mobile, and Treo smartphones, permitting you to navigate and make calls while you and your smartphone are on the go in your vehicle. Now you may fetch Garmin's legendary vehicle navigation software together with your smartphone. View larger. The Mobile 20 hardware quickly integrates with Nokia, Windows Mobile, and Treo smartphones. Simply mount the Mobile 20, and your smartphone, on your windshield, just as you would with a committed vehicle GPS device. View larger. The Mobile 20 comprises of an integrated phone mount, called the GPS 20SM, that accommodates almost any size phone. The mount features a built-in, highly sensible GPS receiver with the powerful SiRF Star chipset for fast acquisition times and accuracy, even when you're journeying beneath heavy foliage and near city skyscrapers. Meanwhile, the included mapping software provides wireless mapping and navigation to deliver you directly to your destination. A Bluetooth wireless interface, powerful speaker, and noise-canceling dual microphones let you drive and talk hands-free without using a headset. The included navigational software, which ships on a data card, provides the same high-quality navigational features found on other Garmin portable automotive GPS devices. You get detailed, precise maps of the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Setup is easy and convenient, too. Just plug the included info card into your smartphone, power up the GPS 20SM and go. The software mechanically installs itself, turning your smartphone into a entirely loaded, wireless navigation system. In addition to elaborate maps, the software provides automatic routing, a 2D or 3D map perspective, and turn-by-turn directions that make it easy to locate addresses. Or you may search millions of points of interests (POIs)--places like hotels, restaurants, shopping, and tourist attractions--then dial the POI's phone number mechanically for reservations, hours of operation, or other information. And of course, while you're on a call you may speak hands-free while staying concentered on the road. The Mobile 20 also features Short Message Service (SMS) integration, which lets you send your emplacement thru text messaging on your phone. You may likewise without apparent effort view received SMS locatings on a map or navigate to them. Another enhancement, Garmin Online, provides free and subscription wireless data services to Garmin Mobile 20 clients with Internet access on their phones. Services include real-time traffic, gas prices, safety cameras, weather information, and other location-relevant content. A built-in suction cup and phone charger make it a snap to install the GPS 20SM on any windshield and conveniently charge most smartphones. Adapters are included. Simply put, with the Garmin Mobile 20, you have everything you need to commence navigating with GPS. What's in the Box GPS 20SM smart mount; power adapters for charging most smartphones; preprogrammed selective information card with maps of U.S, Canada, and Puerto Rico; and mapping and navigation software for most smartphones.

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10 of 10 persons found the following review helpful.
What's not to Like?
By Jacob Marley
I purchased this to replace a CoPilot Bluetooth GPS receiver that is suffering from a dying battery. I intended to use it only with my Sprint PPC-6700 and the CoPilot software. However, after owning this for a couple of days, I am altering my plans.

This device is both a bluetooth hands-free device and a GPS receiver. The speaker is loud. I used it to make a call to Garmin client service where I found that I was entitled to an upgrade to Garmin 2008 maps (the unit shipped with maps from 2006) free. The Garmin software has tons of POI and the maps are adequate. You likewise may use free service, Garmin Online to obtain real time traffic alerts. Be admonished that this service opens a info call on your phone, which unless you are on an limitless plan could get costly real fast (I didn't detect the open connection for over two hours). The maps come on a 2GB mini (NB!) SD card with an SD adapter. I don't like the Garmin interface as much as CoPilot, I find I in truth miss the test-to-speech capability. However, at the current Amazon price, the software is just when it comes to free.

The bonus feature that this thing has, which has pleased me so is that it also fits and pairs with the Nokia N800 Internet tablet. It's a tight squeeze, but once in there it looks great and the free maps provided in the Nokia OS 2008 make a nice "add-on" GPS device. In fact in a test, I had the Garmin paired with both my PPC-6700 running CoPilot and the N800 running it is map program for over 6 hours without a hitch. During the phone call I cited above the nice lady at Garmin client service told me the Mobile 20 would only pair with one device at a time! The unit comes with four "charging" adapters, but the included mini-USB won't charge my PPC-6700. Neither will the enclosed "small" Nokia adapter fit my N800. But the folks at Garmin are sending me the right one for free.

The cons of this unit are the the mount is kind of on the little side and of course, there's no battery. Then there's the what do you do with it when you get to the mall question. With an N800, my brick like PPC-6700 and now this I guess I'll have to think of something ("Charlie? You're NOT wearing Cargo Pants."). One thing's for sure, I am NOT buying a murse.

20 of 24 persons found the following review helpful.
Sounded like a good idea
By Sal R
I was buying goods for a GPS scheme for my car for a few months before I decisive to go with this because I already had a Palm Treo that this would be compatible with, it had built in bluetooth, and came with all the software. This sounded like a outstanding bundle because it was much less costly then numerous of the other GPS systems that included everything that this did. However after using this approximately 2 times, I found it hard to connect to the bluetooth and when I did the greatest or most complete or best possible most eminent volume was hard to listen even with all the windows rolled up. On one of the two occassions using the GPS it sent my Palm Treo into an endless cycle of reseting and turning on and reseting again. I tried to do a hard reset on my phone after this to stop this cycle from occuring but regrettably I could not get it to stop. I had to goto my local phone dealer and have them take a look at my Treo, they could not figure it out either, so they substituted it with a new Treo (thanfully I recompense extra for phone insurance each month).

I ended up returning this item after that because I did not want it to keep causing difficulties with my phone but even if that didn't take place I still didn't like not hearing my phone calls or even hearing the turn by turn directions, which was a gorgeous good share of this package, with the exception that my female voice directions stuttered...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Problem with Use with Treo 680
By Ben Johnson
The Mobile 20 is splendid at tracking to a destination. The touch input is excellent. However, there appears to be severe system fault, in all probability in the software, that results in major interference when voice directions are activated. This renders the voice guidance useless. Due to the little mapping screen, the right way functioning voice guidance is critical to use of the Mobile 20.

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