Comments on: Dash Express GPS Post-Mortem http://randomrage.net/2009/01/27/dash-express-gps-post-mortem/ Movies. Games. Gadgets. Anger. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:20:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: RandomRage http://randomrage.net/2009/01/27/dash-express-gps-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-321 RandomRage Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:50:07 +0000 http://randomrage.net/?p=316#comment-321 I was very tempted to open the thing up, but when I got my second warranty exchange back, it went straight to eBay for some other poor soul to deal with. Pretty fascinating stuff, though. I was very tempted to open the thing up, but when I got my second warranty exchange back, it went straight to eBay for some other poor soul to deal with. Pretty fascinating stuff, though.

]]> By: FormerDash'er http://randomrage.net/2009/01/27/dash-express-gps-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-319 FormerDash'er Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:56:02 +0000 http://randomrage.net/?p=316#comment-319 There was a huge push from within the company to ship something. This was a terrible decision, and really hurt the image of the company. The problems with the first gen DE were historic in nature. The design was about 2 years old, and was done by some really cheap contractors. If you ever opened the thing, you would see that the antennas were huge. Guess the higher ups decided to release a crappy piece of hardware with seriously buggy software. The software parts did get better with updates.... and was really amazing on the latest internal versions. The answers you got from the marketing guys about the size of the device were obviously crap, and everyone knew it. Most of us hated the marketing guys trying to post on blogs and manipulate Amazon ratings, just felt really cheap. In a way it’s really sad. We had been testing an internal version of the next gen DE with a sweet form factor, thin, wide-screen, designed by IDEO. There were some really cool design ideas (LED light pipes all around the screen...think visual indicator around the DE). Unfortunately it never got to see the light of the day. The company was really top heavy towards the end, with too many clashing egos and more politicians than engineers. Once word leaked that the first gen had sold only 2K units, morale went south, and it seemed like people stopped caring. Oh and we did do an eval with Toyota, that went nowhere. There was a huge push from within the company to ship something. This was a terrible decision, and really hurt the image of the company. The problems with the first gen DE were historic in nature. The design was about 2 years old, and was done by some really cheap contractors. If you ever opened the thing, you would see that the antennas were huge. Guess the higher ups decided to release a crappy piece of hardware with seriously buggy software. The software parts did get better with updates…. and was really amazing on the latest internal versions.

The answers you got from the marketing guys about the size of the device were obviously crap, and everyone knew it. Most of us hated the marketing guys trying to post on blogs and manipulate Amazon ratings, just felt really cheap.

In a way it’s really sad. We had been testing an internal version of the next gen DE with a sweet form factor, thin, wide-screen, designed by IDEO. There were some really cool design ideas (LED light pipes all around the screen…think visual indicator around the DE).
Unfortunately it never got to see the light of the day. The company was really top heavy towards the end, with too many clashing egos and more politicians than engineers. Once word leaked that the first gen had sold only 2K units, morale went south, and it seemed like people stopped caring. Oh and we did do an eval with Toyota, that went nowhere.

]]> By: RandomRage http://randomrage.net/2009/01/27/dash-express-gps-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-317 RandomRage Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:33:03 +0000 http://randomrage.net/?p=316#comment-317 I love my Nuvi 265t (4:3 model) and I plan on posting a full review soon. Not sure about your model, but the widescreen doesn't really add much to the 265 except QWERTY input and you don't have to scroll down to get to your favorites. The screen size hasn't really been an issue for me, though. I love my Nuvi 265t (4:3 model) and I plan on posting a full review soon. Not sure about your model, but the widescreen doesn’t really add much to the 265 except QWERTY input and you don’t have to scroll down to get to your favorites. The screen size hasn’t really been an issue for me, though.

]]> By: Your mom http://randomrage.net/2009/01/27/dash-express-gps-post-mortem/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Your mom Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:29:49 +0000 http://randomrage.net/?p=316#comment-316 Informative indeed sir. Sorry your unit crapped out on you. If it means anything I wish I would have gone with the wide screen nuvi instead of the standard. Informative indeed sir. Sorry your unit crapped out on you. If it means anything I wish I would have gone with the wide screen nuvi instead of the standard.

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