GPS, MoveOn's NVG-M1 navigator is pretty thin, UI is pretty 8-bit
By Darren Murph 
posted January 26th 2009 7:59AM
posted January 26th 2009 7:59AM
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Michael Moore is making electronics now?
For all of us who used to play the old NES racers, stretching our imaginations by leaps and bounds, pretending we were actually driving a real car, this is like making a complete 180 degree turn!
Now we can drive a real car and pretend we're playing an 8 bit racer again!
I agree! I love that interface! Sure, it's not dead-sexy like some navis, but damn the gamer who doesn't find at least SOME appeal to having life feel like a NES racer!
If that animates in real-time it would actually look pretty sweet.
Turbo Outrun !
Makes me miss my old Sega Mega Drive. I would so buy this, 8-bit graphics are sweet.
It probably has to do with the resolution, QVGA is pretty low for that screen real estate.
When it comes to navigators, I prefer serviceability over eye-candy, I remember the days when I can easily click control panel in Windows 98 and instantly find what I was looking for. Fast forward to today, Windows Vista, now system displays icons in 24bit color plus 8bit alpha, only to waste more of my time trying to determine the differences of these icons in control panel, because they all look kind of alike at the first glance. I think it's high time for us to stop this counter-intuitive trend of making everything fancy. Instead, we make everything easier to understand, to recognize and to follow, I'm not an iTard, but you don't need to be an iTard to see how Apple got its role in the cellphone business.
I think your memories are failing if you think that's what 8-bit (Atari, Commodore, Apple II, NES) looks like. The graphics could definitely pass for PSX (PSOne). 3D, texture-mapping... Actually, they look a little better than PSX.
Exactly see my post. This author is a complete retard.
I like the 8-bit!!
Wait, engadget people actually BELIEVE all those fake shots they normally use for the GPS ads and are reprinted on engadget? the ones with HD resolution and perfect AA and AF andsoforth, guess what, those aren't pictures of the real thing but 'approximations' they photoshop in, sorry to shock you.
But we're talking Japanese GPSes here. They do usually have the screen resolution to back up their "simulated" images.
And "those who think they really know their way around Osaka"? I see the worlds "Bayshore Route" AKA Wangan Line- it's Tokyo.
Why not grayscale?
What the f is this author babbling about, the most common of navigators dont have 3D art like above, and even if they did its still shitty looking ala above. That actually looks nice. You WANT basic colors when driving if it was more realistic it may be hard to spot the roads, which is why you have the thing in the first place :D
And those are not 8 bit colors , more 16 bit *rolls eyes 50 times over*
Again, we're talking Japanese GPS units here, which are a whole different ballgame. If I knew there was US map data for some Japanese car-navis I'd get them in a heartbeat over most of the US ones.
I'm sorry but it's all about the garmin nuvi 760. I have one in my car and it seriously is awesome. It even made the best list on http://bestcovery.com/node/8294. I don't know much about the gps that these guys are referring to but I can tell you this gps i have OWNS.