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Originally Posted by zeus
Welcome to BMW navigation.. where 8 year old GPS technology is offered at a premium price of 10x that of Garmin... Ohh and don't expect Text To speech, searchable POIs, Speed Cameras, Selecting more than 1 POI category for display, decent map graphics or anything that a $200 Nav unit can do!
Why oh why can't these car manufacturers get TomTom/Garmin to build their Nav units? Then we could have some decent features and regular software upgrades! BMW hasn't offered any new features in their software for several years now!
As nice as it is to have it integrated into the car we are being ripped off blind with what we are getting.
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Whel if you look att overall tech behind a system, then BMW is supirior to tom tom that relies att GPS alone, BMW system will guide you in urban areas, with por GPS, in tunnels and so on.
You do have a point do, VDO has systems that have many of those functions that TomTom does, and BMW is VDO based system. So if they wanted to, they could most likely have update that would give us some more functions.
As for the maps, well they are in 3d, at least in MK IV.
The system is overpriced yes, but in overall i think it is a better and more accurate system.