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Faust
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 Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: A big thank you to Lutz and Co. |
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| I was thinking to myself today how my TomTom GO300 has been greatly improved from the original straight out of the box product with things like spoken speed camera alerts informing one of the speed limit for each camera, personalised voices and automatic day/night time screen brightness etc. What's even more remarkable is that these improvements owe nothing to TomTom but are all down to the excellent work by people such as Lutz and many more enthusiast like him - I for one would like to say a big thank you to all these ever helpful enthusiasts. It does beg the question though as to why TomTom themselves can't come up with these ideas and implement them for the benefit of their loyal customers? |
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Tumbleweed
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:20 am Post subject: Re: A big thank you to Lutz and Co. |
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| Faust wrote: | | I was thinking to myself today how my TomTom GO300 has been greatly improved from the original straight out of the box product with things like spoken speed camera alerts informing one of the speed limit for each camera, personalised voices and automatic day/night time screen brightness etc. What's even more remarkable is that these improvements owe nothing to TomTom but are all down to the excellent work by people such as Lutz and many more enthusiast like him - I for one would like to say a big thank you to all these ever helpful enthusiasts. It does beg the question though as to why TomTom themselves can't come up with these ideas and implement them for the benefit of their loyal customers? |
Because they are too busy working on the accuracy of their maps....?
Nope, must be something else, will get back to you. |
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:23 am Post subject: Re: A big thank you to Lutz and Co. |
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| Faust wrote: | | It does beg the question though as to why TomTom themselves can't come up with these ideas and implement them for the benefit of their loyal customers? |
In fairness they have made an attempt at most of them...
| Quote: | | things like spoken speed camera alerts informing one of the speed limit for each camera |
They told us (eventually) about the .ogg file method, and they must have produced the original code to make it work.
(Shame they SERIOUSLY messed up by changing their own camera system so it can't use them, though! They must be frantically working on a fix for that).
| Quote: | | personalised voices |
they do those (in Plus Services)
| Quote: | | and automatic day/night time screen brightness |
There's a light sensor on the new models that does that.
Then there's Traffic, Weather, Hands-free, Text to speech, spoken messaging etc as well as {ahem} TMC.
They might make a mess of a lot of things, but they do try to innovate. |
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Skippy
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:28 am Post subject: Re: A big thank you to Lutz and Co. |
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| Faust wrote: | | these improvements owe nothing to TomTom |
Without taking away from the excellent work done by Lutz and other third party developers, I strongly disagree with that statement.
These improvements owe a lot to TomTom. If they didn't publish their APIs and Software Development Kit then most of these improvements wouldn't exist at all or would be very difficult to implement.....
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