This gizmo is pretty darn cool! I'm not sure how to make the weather overlay work (I just enabled it 10 minutes ago and so far I've got no data). I decided to go with the NavWeather package and not the NavWeather plus XM Radio as I don't expect to be using this device as a radio receiver very often (and devices built for this purpose are better suited in the first place).
I'll tinker with this at the beach and see what I can make it do. I upgraded my MicroSD card from 128 meg to 2 gig at a whopping cost of $9.99. Can you believe that? Ten bucks for two gig? This old-timer remembers when a 1 gig IDE drive from Western Digital went on sale for $1000.00. To that point how many 2 gig MicroSD cars could I fit into a case the size of a IDE drive? At least 100, maybe more. The mind boggles. I also picked up a 4 gig USB flash drive for not much more. Six gigs of solid-state storage for under $30.00 - RETAIL. Unreal.
Back to the GPS. I don't yet see many mounting options for cars, motorcycle and Jet Skis. That's a shame, but I'm sure those kinds of things are forthcoming. More disturbing I haven't yet read any way to update local road maps. There simply must be a way to do that. I simply won't accept the idea that someone built a GPS and made the road maps static. I found that I can overlay satellite terrain and topographical maps on top of the road map and that's pretty cool, I do have to say.
I simply must make this XM weather data to function properly. Back to the drawing board.
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