BorisM

You're right. X920 uses a non-name navigation software, unlike older X, and F series which used world-class iGo.

Yes, you will be disappointed if you're comparing any of the Pioneers to a Garmin, Garmin is #1 for a reason, they go all out in the their OS and design. Are these units a decent GPS? yes, are they on par with the best of the best? nope. Garmins are mostly number one for being the most dumbed-down navi system (and they don't make an OS either). Navigation in AVIC is far superior. The rest of it though is very badly integrated.

WinCE does NOT support NTFS.

Yes, you can drop a KML file there, too.

No. Bluetooth doesn't work like that. Even if it were possible, it would be a hack on the telephone side, not in the AVIC.

Custom POIs should be in .UPOI file on your Mio. Move them to Userdata\Poi folderf on AVIC. Favorites are in Favorites.dat file in user\userdata\igo\save on the AVIC and in SAVE folder of your Mio's iGo directory. Speedcams are in the content\speedcam folder. I would just move over the text file and let AVIC regenerate the speedcam database, although the speedcam.spdb file _might_ work as is.

He should jack the car to install it into first...

Sure, because stealing is good...

Yes, the stock Verizon 6.5 ROM, with the registry fix for voice over bluetooth.

Search in the hacks forum, there's a fix for the voice that does exactly that.

I'm sure you do. None of my friends who have iPhones, though, I can complete a conversation before the call drops on their end. Granted, this is probably more due to iPhone being exclusive to America's Worst Network , but Apple's style over substance design does not help either.

Pampas? Isn't that in Argentine?

Read the forum?

Man thats just sad, especially sense the iPhone works great with the unit. It's even sadder since my TP2 works fine with AVIC, and unlike iPhone you can actually make calls on it

Same way. Reading the manual can do wonders with operation of the unit...

Currently, they are not options. They are just not available. Outlook might have social connectors, but the phone does not sync to Outlook when you are outside. It either syncs to Exchange, or Live. So the only way WP7 would integrate any social network with contacts (which can be stolen by anyone who really wants to do it anyway, if they have any form of access to them) is if Microsoft themselves write the connector and push the update to the phone... All in all, WP7 is more locked down than an iPhone.

Last I read development documentation, removable memory was not supported... I can understand them not wanting manufacturers putting custom UIs on devices out of the box, but as an owner I should be able to put something more informative and less ugly than the default Metro UI (hell, even Sense shows more info at a glance than WP7's screen). Playing with the WP7 unlocked image emulator, it takes 5 minutes to get information I can see at one glance on my Touch Pro2 with SPB Pocket+ and SPB Diary. Even iPhone 4 has resolution 4 times as high as a maximum resolution allowed on WP7, and th

There is no TMC module in US units.

Thats news to me. From what I've been reading off my technet subscription and everything they'll have full exchange support, and basically everything else. It's designed to be full seamless device using silverlight and be able to access anything from the web just like it was on the device. It looks like the only limitation is you'll have to get apps from windows marketplace which is dissapointing. Access to hardware will be able to be blocked by companies, this is very similar to exchange 2010 with wm6.5, I can block my employees bluetooth,wifi,camera,and a few others...they're just addin

Yea I totally agree with that analogy and use it myself to combat the mass opinion the Windows OS must be better then Mac OS simply because Windows has 90% share of the market.....iPhone. For the mass market, most likely. But then we get to the same Mickey D's analogy... Most popular devices/OS/whatever is not necessarily the best. It's just acceptable enough and simple enough that you can use it without engaging the brain, which is what sells to the majority. I've worked with both Windows and MacOS enough to know that OS X (let's not even talk about the monstrosity that previous bran

Then I can only suggest that you read up on WP7. It won't even have multitasking, likely won't have cut and paste, will not be customizable, and will lose all of the good qualities 6.5 had, like sideloading, native coding, access to hardware etc. etc. BTW, for people who need a good messaging platform, Blackberry with BES is more powerful, manageable and reliable than WinMo with activesync. As a general purpose smartphone WinMo is more flexible.

Windows Mobile 6.x is dead, unfortunately. Corporations certainly are not going to dump Blackberries for it. Windows Phone 7 has all the limitations of iPhone (and then some) and none of the good features. iPhones are already making inroads into corporate IT structures. We'll see them and Android there long before WP7 gets anywhere. And probably long after MS drops it...

Always a pleasure. I think we're disagreeing on the point that something that has mass appeal must, therefore, be a good thing. I believe it is often (most often, really) not true...

Mostly Spb stuff -- Pocket Plus, Phone Suite, Weather, Time... Then there are some utilities, iGO 8 and more. Oh, and by the way, I've heard that Warren Buffett drives a 30 years old Volvo. I'll bet that he's a bit more successful than you are. Some people have different priorities, you know.. Although nobody would call Dodge (lol) Ram (rofl) a luxury vehicle.

Facebook or Myspace are extremely popular, too. So are MacDonalds' hamburgers. They are all crap, too... And of course if you look at popularity, Windows is clearly the most superior OS of all times forever and ever. iPhone makes a nice and popular toy, but it fails as a phone, even if fanboys do not want to notice it, and as a smartphone it is inferior by design to Symbian, old-school WinMo, WebOS or Android. Yeah, I've heard in version 4 it can multitask almost as good as the original version of Windows Mobile did...