Garmin GPS - Re: Garmin Introduces the nüvi

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Re: Garmin Introduces the nüvi

Dale DePriest

2005-09-22, 5:48 pm

Hm wrote:
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> If it had the SiRF chips it would be more expensive, I have several
> Garmin GPSes that do not have the SiRF chips and they perform very good
> (on and off-road ;) ) Those i-series are very attractive, I might get
> one as a backup too.

Garmin has a good chipset.
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> I think the SiRF III chips do have WAAS support, it is my believe that
> that is why Garmin decided to start using them.
> The current Garmin Streetpilot's (all of them) do not use SiRF chips.
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you are correct. I am starting to see this in several units. Initially
it did not. However, WAAS support on SiRF has not been the same as WAAS
on Garmin in the past so I wonder what was implemented. Anybody know?
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