Garmin should be shot for not designing it with sufficient power to even update the maps fast enough to follow when navigating. I mean that renders it pretty useless in my book. Clearly not in el-reg's book tho!

I'm all for standing firm against idiotic design choices made by some companies, or just downright bone-idleness to even take one look at what TomTom are managing to roll out!

As far as I'm concerned, companies should be ordered to stop producing, and hence stop wasting the worlds resources on selling devices that dont meet general standards you can expect from devices around that time. Call it communism if you will, I call it justice.

Okay that might wipe out pretty much the entirity of Chinas output, and maybe Taiwan, Vietnam, India etc etc etc etc. But just imagine, we'd have supercomputers on our wrists by now!

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I bought one of Garmin's eTrek handheld GPS devices waybackyonder, it was good, especially seeing as TomTom and the like hadn't hit the scene, and there were no onboard maps or anything, it was just a waypoint based empty map system. For the time, it was good.

Nowadays though, so many different hi-powered devices, so many different ways for companies to cock things up.

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Terminator icon - bring on SkyNet to sort out the big corpos.