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Force Garmin to give better quality translations

Force Garmin to give better quality translations

Closed — 46 supporters Verified

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Maniglier
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Jean-Paul L.
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Pain
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BOYETTE
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Someone
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arfeuille
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VALLET
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Jean-Maurice M.
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Michel L.
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BIELLE
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Started by Anonymous 18 years, 4 months ago
In a effort to let Garmin know all users from around the world are important, I\'m starting this petition. They must understand that when they offer other languages on ANY of their devices, they must put some effort in quality control and then (only then) be proud of their products. It\'s nice to offer a high tech device but it is even nicer to be proud of it in many languages. Being a native French speaker, I was expecting a better French translation from my 1st Garmin product, a Vista HCx bought last July. Since I\'m a nice person, I first told them and sent them a document ** Please download that document from http://www.filepanda.com/file/wxhbbij8eiqv/ ** It IS the reason for this petition! The document have screen shots showing lack of quality translation from English to French. They never told me clearly it would be taken into consideration, they only told me my document was forwarded to the proper department. After 3 firmware to fix this and that, no correction was made in any of the French menus. Just like my original document sent to Garmin, this petition is in English, even if I\'m a French native speaker asking for better French, simply because I believe that English would be better received by Garmin staff. I hope that I haven

Updates

April 4, 2008

I AM STILL PUSHING HARD BEHIND THE SCENES TO GET A REAL RESPONSE FROM THE GARMIN TEAM!! THEIR SILENCE IS LOUD BUT WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE UNTIL THESE TRANSLATIONS ARE FIXED ONCE AND FOR ALL!!

April 4, 2008

THIS MOMENTUM IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE AND IT PROVES THAT WE ALL DESERVE BETTER FROM GARMIN!! I AM BLOWN AWAY BY THE RESPONSE TO THIS PETITION AND IT IS CLEAR THAT THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY DEMANDS REAL QUALITY CONTROL RIGHT NOW!!

6 Comments

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Marc Nair
18 years ago Featured

The french on my edge 1000 is laughable. It looks like it was done by a robot from 1995. Get it together.

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David Espinoza
18 years ago Featured

Do better. You charge premium prices for this hardware but the software feels like a cheap knockoff.

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Elena Mathis
18 years ago Featured

My gps is basically useless because the instructions make no sense in my language. very frustrated

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Sarah Iyer
18 years ago Featured

Ridiculous that a company like garmin puts out such sloppy work. fix the menus.

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Kevin Fleming
18 years ago Featured

Seriously garmin?? We pay enough for these units and you cant even hire someone to translate it properly?? Lazy.

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Jean Sharma
18 years ago Featured

Totalement d'accord. Its embarassing to use these devices in public when the translation is this bad.

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