Blackberry bold 9700 garmin GPS?
Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at
4:24 am
I was planning on buying the garmin gps for my blackberry but I’m a bit confused about how it works does it require a data plan to use the garmin gps?
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garmin recommend that you have a data plan to use there gps software. the reason to this is that the garmin software will use the data plan to find out where it is without having to locate the gps as this usually takes a long time. so by having a data plan, this makes the process faster. also the data plan helps when you may lose signal of gps whilst using garmin so it will help you locate straight away. i used to have tomtom installed and didn’t have a blackberry plan and that didnt make a difference but i would lose signal every now and then and the software wouldnt know where you are to give you routes.
Straight and Direct: It does not require a data plan, but the thing is, it makes the process a lot faster if you do use the data plan. Which would explain the reason why Garmin recommends it. The Blackberry itself has an A-GPS chip inside of it, so you wouldnt have to run up those bills.
Sidenote: You may also consider Google Maps on your Blackberry because its free and it works very well too.
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