{"id":57,"date":"2007-04-18T14:43:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T19:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2007-08-14T06:36:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T11:36:23","slug":"new-gps-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"New GPS is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new Garmin 2730 gps arrived this morning, and I&#8217;ve been comparing it with the Garmin 2610 I just sold.  It isn&#8217;t the latest and greatest from Garmin, but since the technology is changing fairly rapidly it becomes very expensive to play the &#8220;I want the latest and greatest game&#8221;.  I&#8217;m quite comfortable to have last year&#8217;s model for less than half of last year&#8217;s price.  My initial impressions are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The interface seems more polished, and it&#8217;s a nice touch that the &#8220;stop&#8221; button to forgo following a route is on the menu page, not another level down.<\/li>\n<li>When navigating on a route, and a turn is approaching, the voice now speaks the name of the road, street, highway, or interstate you are to turn onto.  The 2610 just said &#8220;right turn&#8221;, the 2730 says &#8220;right turn onto Main Street&#8221;.  Not huge, really, but perhaps helpful if there are closely-spaced and poorly-signed crossroads in your route.<\/li>\n<li>I am disappointed that the &#8220;tabs&#8221; containing information such as speed, altitude, time to turn, distance to turn, etc. are not transparent, but have a black background.  On the 2610 the tabs had a transparent background and you could &#8220;see&#8221; the map behind the tab.  This change has the net effect of making the map section of the screen smaller.  On the 2610, you could &#8220;hide&#8221; a tab by touching the right side of the screen and just like a manila folder, there would be a tab graphic that, when touched, would unhide the tab and make it visible again.  Touching the tab now takes you to either the &#8220;dashboard&#8221; or the turn information, depending on which tab you touch.<\/li>\n<li>This unit comes with the GXM30 XM receiver\/antenna and once activated through XM the gps will control the XM receiver in the &#8220;puck&#8221;.  I intend to use the gps on my Goldwing and also in my truck, so I have put together a mounting system that will easily go from one to the other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once I&#8217;ve used it a bit more and saved some waypoints I will undoubtedly have additional comments, so stay tuned.<code><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new Garmin 2730 gps arrived this morning, and I&#8217;ve been comparing it with the Garmin 2610 I just sold. It isn&#8217;t the latest and greatest from Garmin, but since the technology is changing fairly rapidly it becomes very expensive to play the &#8220;I want the latest and greatest game&#8221;. I&#8217;m quite comfortable to have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=57\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New GPS is here&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}