ShaneStump,
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I have sort of found out that when you pair up Blue Tooth at least on a 2820, you can-not hear the MP3 play thru the GPS device anyway. Not sure about the Zumo.
I got my new Blue Tooth Phone Friday along with my Jabra Device, works super.
Now I also decided on a 2820 because as far as I know it is flash vs a hard drive, which is more condusive to vibrations.
I am a simple guy, and was in the puter business for a long time and really believe in the KISS principle esp for non enterprise functions
But the simple fact is I only want to use my phone to make a call, my mp3 player to play music.
My son, on the other hand has Trios, Blackberrys 3 Apple Laptop's and it goes on and on. I had PDA's before they became a rage and a lot of the other elctronic toys that were available.
For an example. I had an MP3 player when most people were running Battery operated CD players or Walkmans.
Now I have a very simple Sansa E140 1 gig player, with a 2 gig expansion card. (No lithium batteries and no propriotity sound formats or loading systems, Like I Tunes) (I get about 120 complete CD's on the player)
I don't want to watch a full length movie on a 2-3 inch screen, store photos or keep an up to date copy of my will or estate plan on it, or watch pod-casts. (SEE I TOLD YOU I AM A SIMPLE GUY), I just want to listen to a few tunes,
If it get sick I Just plug in the Rio player and go to Amazon and buy another E140 for 85.00. I've had it for over a year and it hasn't failed yet.
When the battery dies esp on the road, I just reach in the left pocket of the bike and change the triple A battery, continue to listen and ride to my hearts content. I don't need a hard wired cigarette adapter or anything other than a few batteries.
It is mounted on a Ram mount which is mounted on a Texelent Acc Bar. A simple Radio Shack headphone extension cable, routed to the Ram Mount from the aux cable and Wallah, Tunes, LOL
All 1200 of my CD's are sound edited and wrapped in a single WMA file, and the volume blown up to 96-97DB and they sound and play great on the bike or in the car. I don't know about you but in reality I have a lot of trouble managing 60 Cd's less 120, LOL
The only two requirements I had for my new phone was Blue Tooth and a speaker phone. However, it will take pic's, email, Vcast, Stk Quotes, Download music, text mesg and cook a hamburger.
I just want to make a phone call, lol.
I want the GPS to tell me how to get from point A to B and a few other things it will do well like Blue Tooth and route control and where the closest place is I can get a decent eggroll, LOL
My only requirements are Reasonable Customer Support, unit reliability and a big enough screen that I can see at a comfortable distance.
The Iway 500C was my first choice. But I have been watching the threads and posts here and other places, and I just don't have the time or patence to fight the QC and reliability issues this device seems to have.
So I settled on the Garmin 2820. Is it the best decision, I don't know but it seems reasonable at the present time.
P.S. As soon as the media cost comes down I am going to add a Lightscribe CD/DVD drive to my puter system also, Lol
I think I just gave you more info than you needed, its a personality defect on my part I have a tendency to over communicate , LOL :lol: