Details emerge on Garmin Smartphone Link app
Garmin has posted some FAQs on their Android Smartphone Link app, and we’ve got the highlights for you…- While the NAVTEQ traffic data may be the same as what you already receive, since you are getting it via your phone instead of over FM, you mayexpand your coverage area (many smaller metros have traffic coverage, but no FM-TMC reception)
- Find where traffic cameras are currently available
- Is it coming to the iPhone? Maybe
- Basic (free) weather gets you “current localized weather, temperature and forecasts,” while Advanced Weather adds “severe weather alerts, notifications of weather along your current route, and animated radar images on your Garmin navigator” (see image below)
- Garmin estimates “an average monthly data usage of around 2 MB per month…very heavy users might use up to 20 MB per month”
- But they also say that “an unlimited data plan is recommended when using the premium servicesavailable through Garmin Live Services”
And a few other items:- A step-by-step look at using Garmin Smartphone Link
- While Twice is reporting Garmin Tracker integration, my contacts are saying only that they are looking into it for the future (and we don’t know if that means GTU-10 tracking or nuLink 2390 style tracking)
- You can find more info on Garmin Smartphone Link in our previous post
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