Originally Posted by
njkayaker
The navigation stuff is hard. Especially in a device that is supposed to be cheapish, small, and last a long time. Garmin is a leader in navigation and it's hard for them to get it completely right on the cycling units.
The phones do better because they are much faster computers with much more memory. Routes on google/waze/etc are not even calculated on the device.
I don't get what any of that has to do with why they don't make the UI better in nav units. What's holding them back from getting better chips and more memory? My feeling is that they're just behind the curve. TomTom are on track with the 6100 model, but they just introduced it last year. Put a damn SIM card in these things, guys!