Comments on: Dash Express June Update

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:24:03 +0000

Note that was November 8 of 2008, just over one year ago. The company has since been sold.

By: Bill Angell

Bill Angell — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:20:52 +0000

Dash is no longer selling new Dash Express units. the following was posted on their web site:

\A New Direction
Posted by Dash Navigation on November, 3 in Dash Express
77 Comments »
We’ve made the difficult, yet exciting, decision to shift gears to focus our company on extending the Dash experience to a variety of devices and platforms. Rather than continue to ship our own hardware, we’ll be licensing our application and service to a diverse group of device manufacturers.

This path offers us great opportunities as navigation and location-based services have exploded across the industry landscape. Not to mention that by delivering the Dash service through multiple platforms, we’ll be able to accelerate the growth of the Dash Driver Network – benefiting both our existing and future customers.

We thank our current customers for their support and remain committed to continuing delivery of an unprecedented experience.\

My view is that the concept is great if it could be incorporated on a mass scale in mainstreem GPS units of the future. I wish them good fortune.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:01:09 +0000

Just a quick note that the Dash Express is $199 today only at Amazon. Good chance to get in on the deal if you have been on the fence.

By: Cary

Cary — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:06:48 +0000

Yeah I would stick with Garmin for now. The Dash is well known to give some strange routes and a few people say it tells them to take u-turns alot, not something you want to do on a bus I suppose. Also nothing about adding auto-zoom yet.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:04:19 +0000

I think you would need to ask Dash that question.

By: Wil

Wil — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:03:08 +0000

I am a charter bus driver and I frequently travel out of state in unfamiliar areas. From what I am reading from users the Dash Express may not be a good choice for me. The Garmin still seems to be more reliable for route selections than the Dash.

By: Wil

Wil — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:59:59 +0000

Will the auto zoom feature be added soon?

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:50:42 +0000

Carlos – Since the device is connected to the Internet for Yahoo business searches I personally don’t care how many POIs are stored on the device itself— It has an unlimited amount of POIs with its connected search, so it has live access to more POIs than any other GPS on the market today.

By: Carlos Rosa

Carlos Rosa — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:26:09 +0000

What is the point? Just US maps and only a miserable 1 million POI’s. This is the most important thing in a GPS and the factories keep ignoring.

A very good GPS that really gives me the best rout and the best POI data base possible. I don’t want MP3, or any thing else. When I buy a GPS, what I really looking for is for a device that is smart, fast and has a great POI data base, at least 12 million of them.

We talking about 2 great countries, 6 million is nothing, think about a only miserable million.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:02:06 +0000

So far I have the same two issues– the same significant routing issues and not enough auto zoom.