Very interesting dialogue and some great points. Here are just my thoughts:

On your point:

#1 - so far I have not been ably to verify if the 2010 are more or less accurate based on a bunch of addresses that I commonly use. I will say this however, I submitted a bunch of changes to Navteq over the years and from update to update they never incorporated the changes. In fact, after I'd get the auto-reply case number, I'd never hear about it again. This is one area where I am hoping TeleAtlas does a better job.

#2 - I can't tell if this is the case or not. I usually leave the voice commands off as they were frequently annoying unless I was in a completely foreign area, and then if they bugged me I would just turn them down a little.

#3 - This is my biggest hope, that the routes are more optimized. I've requested countless times for routes without tolls and have always been led astray, even when I was proceeding on a known route with no tolls to a given destination. It was as though the system refused to acknowledge any other possible route no matter what I tried. I really hated this problem the most.

#4 - I agree, it is too bad that they are split onto 2 disks. It's not a big problem for my location, but I can see it being an issue for some people. I think they put so much information (POI's) into this disk that the sheer volume of that data is what caused the problem. Do I really need to know every Mexican restaurant with address and phone number within a 250 miles radius if I'm allergic to Mexican food? No. Do I need to know all the locations of the GAP in North America? We'll considering I've never been in one, then I'd say no to that as well. However, they must feel that some people do. Oh well. I guess we can just hope that the next update is double layer...and works properly.

#5 - I have to honestly say that my impression is the same as yours on this point. For whatever reason, when making large scale differences it seems to take a much longer time to show up all the info. I don't know why this is the case, but I have sort of worked around the problem by only making one or two increment scale changes at a time.

I can deal with pretty much all the issues above, though a fix for #3 would be the best news for me. The only other thing that I'd give just about anything to have is a dedicated button to change from split-screen view to full-screen view.

Keep us updated on what they tell you.