Its attempt to be as big and brash as the actual tournament is overbearing and tackling this many graphics will daunt low-bandwidth users.

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The other thing these low-bandwidth vector maps enables is offline caching of maps, specifically your most frequently visited locations, and entire trips that have been routed in Navigation, including potential reroutes.

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Of course, there's one major benefit to using a proprietary dongle, especially for the low-tech audience: the FlipShare can be optimized for a known high-bandwidth connection, and indeed, it streams HD Flip videos from local machines without hesitation.

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Cable and telephone companies can run all kinds of high-bandwidth wires to your neighborhood, but they're still constrained by old low-tech connections from their substation to your computer.

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