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Originally Posted by krisse View Post
Interestingly, all those are available right now on Symbian devices...

Not many people use them, but they are there and usually bundled with the default firmware.
Because it would involve
one hand on the wheel while looking down at a cell phone that they are trying to type on using the thumb of the other hand
(often followed by the sounds... screech, smash, and boingggg.)

I'm talking about a 4, 5, or even 7 inch touch screen. Preferably portable... One of the flaws I see with M'soft's Sync is it is built in. People are resistant to sharing personal information with an inanimate object that is often stolen.
Also, lengthy trips that would benefit from a personal navigator often involve more than one mode of transportation. When a long trip over several days does involve just a car, most people like to review the road traveled and preview the road yet to come. They would pro'ly prefer to do that in the comfort of a hotel room or over dinner. Not sitting in the parking lot of the holiday hotel.

If on the hand Microsoft's intent is to treat the car as just another smart gadget that needs to communicate with all our other smart gadgets in our future smart gadget world, Maemo needs to be there as well.

I'm thinkin' Symbian, not so much.