"Wherever you go, there you are..."
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.
Mrs. F uses the Tom-Tom in connection with a Treo and its performance is flaky at best.
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!
I have a tomtom. Something about the name drew me.
I just bought one, got a 4Gb SD card for it and we love it. It does all we need and more.
I almost bought the Tom Tom but Garmin's POI db was deemed to be superior.
Bought a Navigon 2100 on Ebay for $100.00. Works as good as a $400.00 Garmin, TomTom or Magellan .
Bought a Navigon 2100 on Ebay for $100.00. Works as good as a $400.00 Garmin, TomTom or Magellan .
"Wherever you go, there you are..."
Dittos to Garmin. Great customer service.
Garmin Nuvi, bluetooth connection for the cell phone, hands free. Also got the 1 yr MSN connection for finding current gas prices, traffic alerts etc. I use it everyday when I drive, tracks time, distance, elapsed time, stopped time etc.
Upgradeable software online thru your PC, free CD with new North America maps to load also...
Also has voice recognition on their newer models, Nuvi860
Trip simulation also, you can enter your destination the night before you go and it will review the trip for you...to study ya know?
Worth every penny.
Lots of good deals/info on various GPS units there.
I agree with others here that $400-$500 seems high...GPS prices have fallen quite a bit in the last year or so and you should be able to get a nice unit with mucho features for far less.