Re: Garmin Map 60CS....# of Routes?

Depending on when they expect to ship a product the firmware would have to
be "frozen" as much as a month ahead of time. Just because the FW is
finished doesn't mean they can ship product, there is the matter of
manufacturing, packaging, and user manuals that all have to be completed in
order to ship a final product. And then there is the matter of getting any
integration with existing Mapping Software done too. I would expect the
feature set to be pretty solid at this point if they truly are going to ship
the 60C in Jnauary as they stated.

I suspect the confusion is the marketing guys and the web site guys are not
talking to each other and probably one of them is working off old product
specifications (most likely the web site guys, they are always the last to
know... :) )

TC


"Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Brian Morrison wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 03:45:37 +0000, in article
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Darrel Goheen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>    You are no more confused than I. I'm not sure the features are set
yet.
> >
> >
> > Don't you think they ought to start writing the firmware then?
>
> I'm sure they've started, but presumably they haven't finished yet.
> Afterall, if they already had the final hardware and firmware ready they'd
> be shipping them out to customers instead of waiting until after the
> Christmas buying season.  Until then the features are subject to change
and
> for that matter they'll probably continue to change with new firmware
> releases.  For example, the eMap started out only supporting one route but
> a few months later it supported 50 routes.
>