Posted on 06/19/2008 2:14:53 PM PDT by killermosquito
I have a Tom Tom..paid about that price. Love it.
Garmin Nuvi looks good.
They’ve been selling well and I’ve used several on long trips.
Sony’s also just come out with a $399 model, but I haven’t seen any specs or reports on it.
ive got the garmin nuvi - love it - online updates etc....very user friendly - whatever you get - get a big screen
We bought a tom tom One 3rd edition for $149 from thecamerashoppe.com. Works great!
Pocket the other $250-$350 for road trips.
I know very little about these units, but have a question. Do you subscribe to a service to use these gadgets and to get updates?
First decide what you are going to use it for. Hiking, camping, fishing, or just driving. I like Garmin best.
“Do you subscribe to a service to use these gadgets and to get updates?”
Generally you don’t pay for a service to use them but you do pay for updates.
Also, Tom Tom has shipped their product with a virus. That steered me away from them.
Mrs. F uses the Tom-Tom in connection with a Treo and its performance is flaky at best.
jeeze...
We did some playing against a $50,000 Leica setup. Using the same monument, we were within 20 feet theoretically.
Thanks for the info.
A friend just bought the Garmin Nuvi 260 and loves it.
In the $ 250.00 - $ 275.00 range at WalMart.
Garmin is a long time maker of GPS instruments. Consumer Reports rated it highly also.
The question is what purpose is the GPS to be used.
I have a $70 Garmin, forerunner that is perfect for what I do with it. It locates geocashes and tracks my milage.
I know where I am traveling, so a navigator is useless to me.
They make GPS units for golfing, sailing and tracking kids.
The Apple iphone 3g has a GPS in it with step by step directions. My son used his last night to avoid a major traffic jam in Salt Lake City.
Buy it by the features you need, not by the price.
My Garmin Forerunner came in 3 models, costing $70, $170, and $270. The $70 model uses ordinary batteries, the $170 charges the batteries, and the $270 one downloads workouts to the computer. I got the $70 one and bought a set of rechargeable batteries.
....Bob
I had a Garmin Nuvi 350. I liked it alot, one issue I had with it was routes. I couldn’t interject waypoint, it just plotted shortest.
It got stolen so, I got a Garmin Nuvi 750 and it does do routing and there’s pretty much nothing else I could want in a GPS and I’ve been using them since 2003(Etrex Legend).
If you want Bluetooth get the 760. If you want the Traffic features, I think you need the 780 or something.
When I bought my 750 in November it was 500 bucks...they’re probably down mid 300s now.
Oh and get the beanbag friction mount, I have it now, it’s great. The suction mount leaves rings on the window and probably helped encourage said thief that my GPS was inside.
Make sure you get “text to speech” so that it tells you the street name, instead of merely saying “turn right.”
BTW - My Garmin is great!
That is my concern. Do you leave a GPS out in plain sight or do you have to hide it every time you leave your car?
I have a tomtom. Something about the name drew me.
the 760 has traffic too, as well as bluetooth. We have one and love it
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