Comments on: Motorola Droid: Google Navigation Review

By: Home Income Kit

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By: Rog

Rog — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:41:52 +0000

I personally am really impressed with the “Free” navigation provided by Google Navigation. I like the fact you can use speech to say “Navigate to Nearest” This beats most GPS’s on the market right there.

Also this feature is awsome as most of the time it will be bringing up the most updated info with no additional charge of updates to your Garmin / Magellan Car GPS. I believe it takes what you say, goes to google and translates it, then brings back an address(s) of what you were looking for and you pick one from the list if there is more than one. (Very safe, compared to having to enter (Zipcode, House Number, Street)

The realtime street view is pretty cool too, could be very helpful in City Situations. I did this and when I arrived at my house I was able to see a pic of my house and a pic of my car in the driveway. How cool is that.

Real time Traffic on the maps too, come on what more can you ask for.

Common Sense says yes, you need a data plan and it will only work in places where there is data available. I don’t belive it is supposed to Replace the Garmin / Magellan GPS just yet, but in the future don’t be suprised if they download maps for places where google knows cell phone reception is bad and keep those maps local for that period of time.

I personally am using the Droid X with the Car Mount.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:42:38 +0000

I have been navigating through the yellow stone park where the verizon data link is no more. Google navigation on droid x failed misirably. I had to turn back to my 6 years old garmin nroute (on a laptop) which did just fine.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:08:27 +0000

I have the car dock and it works great and includes the charger as stated. It is a great deal for under $25 online. I tried the navigation for the first time today and I was impressed. The maps were much more up to date than my Garmin. I didn’t try talking on the phone while navigation but I suspect it may be a problem. The reason is that CDMA (the technology Verizon and Sprint use) does not allow simultaneous voice and data, so I don’t think the navigation could work when it needs to pull mapping data from the network. My guess is it buffers some data, so a short phone call while navigating may be okay but when it needs to pull map data and cannot (because you are talking on the phone) there may be a problem. I’m not sure what will happen under those circumstances. Has anyone tried it?

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:48:15 +0000

How do you delete destinations? I want to clear all my destinations from the GPS log on my phone.

By: bob

bob — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:33:30 +0000

the coolest aspect of google nav to me is the real-time traffic calculation. It routed me around an accident without me doing anything (although it would have been nice if it had given some clue that that was going on – I wondered at the odd route until I viewed the traffic overlay)

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:35:44 +0000

Are you people dumb? Of course anything Droid that comes from Verizon wont be OEM! I went to BestBuy, got a car mount and it CAME with the car charger (for about 40 bucks) It was MOTOROLA (OEM). NEVER BUY YOUR ACCESSORIES AT VERIZON!. They rip you off, go to best buy or walmart or check online.

By: Tom Millar

Tom Millar — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:31:14 +0000

My Google Navigator on my Droid will not navigate onto I-66 (near Wash DC) anywhere East of Centreville. I’ve tried numerous scenarios, but it will avoid getting onto I-66 westbound until the route goes west of Centreville, and it will route OFF of I-66 when coming from west of Centreville. While ON I-66 in that stretch and I call for a route say to Vienna (which is east of Centreville), it says “No route found”…seriously!

By: vigor

vigor — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:11:54 +0000

Aproximately how long can the Droid run on a single charge using GPS and Google Navigation without plugging it in to external power source??

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:06:21 +0000

Want to know two things about Droid naviagation.

1) Can you change the voice to someone else?

2) Is there a way to make the voice repeat the last direction if you failed to hear it?

By: brian a

brian a — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:37:49 +0000

Chris s. : I’ve saved “waypoints” by saving my location as a contact. Yea, you have to know the address, so its not 100% useful, and probably not the answer what your looking for, but that’s what I’ve done.

A complaint about nav is driving at night and the map is still white. All garmin and in-car gps’ change the colors to a black backgroud after a certain time or when headlights are on, because its toooo much light staring back at you and keepin you from seeing the whole road. I drove an hour and a half from home to a place I’ve never been with it in my cup holder (no car dock) and it was perfect!! Voice guide was on target. I could only glance at the screen every few mins tho because it was so friggin bright (even not on navi, the screen doesn’t get dim enough which is my only other complaint about the droid).. I really hope they get that fixed soon, or atleast if someone knows if there is an opion me and the verizon guys coulodnt find, or that there will be a fix in the 2.1 update, please let me know.. til then I’m not using the navi during the night :/

Great reviews your writing too btw, thanks

By: James

James — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:52:44 +0000

I have used navigation three times within my city (Schaumburg, IL) and three times I received wrong directions. Severe enough as continuing to go straight instead of turning, or making a right instead of a left…

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:10:17 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:12:41 +0000

The card dock does NOT come with a power cord.

By: Chris s.

Chris s. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:03:02 +0000

A problem i see is no ability to save waypoints to get back to a visited location. Is it there and i am missing something?