Review: Alpine Blackbird
Interesting review over at GPS Magazine covering the Alpine Blackbird. Fits my maybe continual bantering that it’s easy to make a GPS, and it’s hard to make a good GPS. Well, apparently the folks at Alpine are having a tough time making a good GPS. It’s great to see that there are a lot of companies coming into the GPS space, because competition spurs innovation and we get cool things like traffic alerts or handsfree Bluetooth communication or two way internet connectivity for information lookup…. Two issues that they bring out, interface problems, specifically the address entry issues, and simple navigation issues. A couple of biggies, if you ask me.
When I was using the Delphi NAV200 product, I had trouble with address entry and it appeared to come back to the underlying data formats. Sometimes towns were listed as “Norwood, Town of” which comes up in the alphabetical listing below every other “Norwood” in the US….. frustrating when you have to scroll through a few dozen looking for the one near you. One has to wonder if there are some data issues with the Alpine helping to drive the address entry issues. The GPSMag reviews are photo heavy, so if you want to skip to the meat of the problems, start here and read the last 3 pages.
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Posted by Scott Martin at November 29, 2006 7:13 AM
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