Cumbersome is a kind word. Interfaces should be pretty reasonably intuitive, so after fiddling a bit with Becker I went right back to my iPhone. That said, the map screen is handy to get bearings and street configuration within your immediate area. I was navigating a winding university campus and used the Becker to determine if streets went through or wandered off into dead ends, something that's pretty tough on the phone. The zoom and scroll are nice to see street layout within a limited area. Not sure I'd pay extra for it, but since it was a dealer lot van I'll use it for what it's worth.
Questions for anyone though.
Is the nav function on the driver's display tied into the Becker unit? If so that's another plus for the Becker, otherwise there's no way to determine compass bearing while you're driving.
Also, is there any way to display compass bearing in place of the clock in the driver's display? Since there's a clock in the ent. display it's just duplicated data.
I travel by and need dead reckoning fairly often hence the need for conveniently seeing compass bearing rather then time of day. It's funny though, all this technology and we're never satisfied. I literally had a marine compass super glued to the dashboard of my '68 LeSabre, kinda miss those days
