The Merging of Products

I’m sorry that I have been sporadic in my postings, lately.  I have been feeling run down and have had some bad days the last few weeks.  I am hoping that, as I have been feeling a ton better as of late, I will be more consistent.

As I recently purchased a new phone, I was looking into the features found in certain phones.  (Full disclosure, I purchased a Google phone, the DroidX)  I had a Zune music player, GPS unit and phone that I had to carry in and out of my house every time I went somewhere.  After my GPS was stolen, I wanted to consolidate some products.

The great thing about current phones is that they can take the place of most music players, laptops, schedulers and, recently, GPS units.  Many phones come with online directions through MapQuest or Google Maps.  Recently, however, Google has released a Beta version of a product called Google Navigation.

As opposed to most phone map applications, which offer step-by-step directions to a destination, Google Navigation offers real-time, turn-by-turn directions, just like current GPS units.  That is the main reason why I switched from my Blackberry phone to Google, and I couldn’t be happier.

So, my advice these days is, if you are in the market for a GPS unit, music player or phone to look into combining them into one unit.  I would have told you to get individually devoted products a few years ago, but phone technology is getting so that music and GPS technology in phones is getting as good as that in individual products.