frankenbike

I have a Mogul (Titan, 6800, etc). I have a lot of data I carry around especially music. I'm looking for GPS software, and Garmin Mobile XT would be perfect (price, traffic, weather, etc...), except...

It comes on its own, non-transferable Micro SD card.

Which would be fine with me if it was like 8gb and I could put my own stuff on it. But it isn't. It's single purpose.

Believe it or not, it's a pain to change an mSD card when you're on a motorcycle (or even driving a car). What I used to do with my Axim x30 and BT receiver and OCN5 was ride on long trips, have the music patched to my sound system playing through MortPlayer, and when a stop or turn was coming up, the voice nav would kick in and let me know. I want that with my phone, plus online info about weather and traffic if I'm heading into a city or there's potential bad weather coming up. But for hours I won't need any of that. I just want to listen to music.

I'm looking for something comparably priced, with comparable features, but with CDs or DVDs I can load onto my own mSD. I don't care if you have to give the device IDs to lock it to a particular device for a year or two. I just want flexibility.

I'm trying to take full advantage of the complete convergence my device offers, without having my hands tied to a single storage chip that's dedicated to a single purpose. If our phones came with 4 or 8 gb installed without relying on the mSD chips, it wouldn't be a problem at all. But, alas, the manufacturers failed to listen to my sage advice ;)

So here's the wish list:
Voice Nav
Traffic through the phone's internet overlayed
Weather radar overlaid (if possible)
Install on own storage chip
Under $100
edit: It would also be nice if I could use the built in keyboard to enter addresses ;)

Essentially, Garmin Mobile XT that I can load onto any microSD I buy.

Thanks.

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DJUnreal

Franken, I know it's not particularly heplful to this discussion, but I have a cool setup on my bike.

Got me an Intaride Evo kit (Home) and it's absolutely fantastic!!!

Hooked up similarly to http://intaride.com/Evo%20Config.GIF except I have their bluetooth upgrade for my phone.

As for your query, I'll look into software like that. I know you could use TomTom to do most of it, I think...

frankenbike

That's way cool. thanks. I'll have to check it out.

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