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Steven f/AZ
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No experience with the models you list... but I can tell you this much: The cheap GPS navigation units do NOT work! We bought one a year ago for a vacation, tried it out around town for a bit first. It would propose that we drive into brick walls, into the river, etc. We purposefully would miss a turn to see how it would re-calculate our route - by the time it re-calculated we were already past the next turn and it would start the process all over again! Drove in a couple circles around a neighborhood and it froze, have to shut down and restart, reprogram destination, wait for satellite signal, etc. Just plain junk.
I am interested to hear others' experiences with the models you list as we are in the market for one again...
I am interested to hear others' experiences with the models you list as we are in the market for one again...
Walt Davies
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I have a Magellan maestro and it works great cost $300 Garmins are also very good. I like mine because it talks to you and you can talk to it to get a location also if you have a blue tooth cell phone it will take your calls free handed. Good service and good directions. One nice thing is put in an address and it take you right the front door, also just say Magellan then go home and it will get you back home from any place. Nice screen too. i updated the software a while back and it give real nice direction that are easy to see and hear.
Walt
Walt
Bought a nuvi (Garmin) 200 quite a while back and it is good. Have used it quite a bit to find address"s when I drive for dealers. Also across country. If you want a certain route you may have to add multiple towns to get your way. My wife named it chatty Kathy. That was bottom of the line and I get upgrades etc. Good Luck
jim in N M
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Bought a Garmin 360, works great,In fact I like it better than my "On Star" in my GM car !!Jim in N M
I've used Magellan, Garmin and TomTom, and they all do the job. When it came time to buy one, I bought a TomTom, because it had the lowest price for the features I wanted, and I've been very satisfied with it. Any of the major brands are going to occasionally send you on a bizarre detour for no reason, but they will always get you back on track.
Anonymous-0
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Bought the cheapest Tom Tom, don't have it here to see the model. I have had it since June, and it has worked very well so far.
John M
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Wifes got a TomTom, peice of crap in my opinion, but hers could be one of the early ones. Garmin will send you down the wrong roads, or illegal turns, too many truckers I know have them and they do that.
I bought a Garmin 340 about 3 years ago.
Does a greatjob of shutting up mu wife.
We don"t travel strange places without it.
Pros -
Gives look ahead to see if a left or right turn is needed; lets you get into the correct lane earlier.
Heading for a motel - just go to motels and let it guide you there.
Predicting destination time - Is uncanny accurate. I sit in the driveway prior to a trip - get the travel time - and then tell Honey when we have to leave (plus 20 minutes).
Talks to us - Gives directions without looking at the screen.
Cons - Is lost when you hit a detour.
Needs updates to account for new roads.
Does a greatjob of shutting up mu wife.
We don"t travel strange places without it.
Pros -
Gives look ahead to see if a left or right turn is needed; lets you get into the correct lane earlier.
Heading for a motel - just go to motels and let it guide you there.
Predicting destination time - Is uncanny accurate. I sit in the driveway prior to a trip - get the travel time - and then tell Honey when we have to leave (plus 20 minutes).
Talks to us - Gives directions without looking at the screen.
Cons - Is lost when you hit a detour.
Needs updates to account for new roads.
On any of the gps systems, trust, but verify. Example: Went to Moline, IL for the Gathering of the Green this spring with a friend and his wife. He has one of the upper scale models from Garmin. Took us right up the interstates, no problems, right to the front door of the hotel. Took us anywhere we wanted to go while in Moline. BUT.....When we made the return trip home, it turned us off the interstate onto a state road, then county roads, etc. We were going down some pretty sketchy roads before we finally emerged back onto the interstate several hundred miles later. Since we didn't have a road map, didn't know the area, etc. the only thing we could do was follow the nice lady in the box. It took us the most direct route, but not the most traveled. They are quite handy, but I would recommend keeping a hard copy of the map with you just in case. The plus was we got to see some fine farm country, small towns and lots of old tractors along the way.
Anonymous-0
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tried 3 learned if you can not read a map you better stay home and save the money wasted on a gps mostly a fad thing or has anyone noticed the economy
I have a Garmin, can't remember the model but it is one of the lower end $100.00 models. It's about a year old so fairly up to date.
I love the silly thing and wonder how much fun it would have been to have had it when I was running all over the country.
Just today it took me right up to a house that was out in the sticks in one of thoes locations you can't get to from here...
I love the silly thing and wonder how much fun it would have been to have had it when I was running all over the country.
Just today it took me right up to a house that was out in the sticks in one of thoes locations you can't get to from here...
Paul from MN
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I have had a Garmin Nuvi 200 for about a year. Not perfect, will make an occasional mistake. By occasional I mean rare enough not to matter. I'd make more wrong turns on my own.
For traveling in unfamiliar areas they are wonderful.
For traveling in unfamiliar areas they are wonderful.
You needed to give it more guidance on selecting a route. On my TomTom, I know how to do it, on your Garmin, I know it can be done, but don't recall what we did (using a co-worker's Garmin on a business trip). You need to tell it to take the fastest route instead of the shortest, or tell it you prefer to take the freeway when possible.
But then, my TomTom told me that to go from LaGuardia airport to JFK, which is pretty much a straight shot down the VanDyck Expressway, it tried to detour me around Shea Stadium. Perhaps more scenic, but when you wanna catch a flight, it's not the preferred route.
But then, my TomTom told me that to go from LaGuardia airport to JFK, which is pretty much a straight shot down the VanDyck Expressway, it tried to detour me around Shea Stadium. Perhaps more scenic, but when you wanna catch a flight, it's not the preferred route.
Garmin makes about all the gps navigation panels for aircraft. If we are trusting garmin to put airliners on the runway after flying through the clouds, that makes it my choice for a car.
Also: There are two major map companies. Navteq and tele-atlas. Navteq is an american company and used by garmin and one other company (maybe magellan). Tele-atlas is a Europeean company. Tom-Tom (also Europeean) and another company uses tele-atlas. I have googled reports on both and the navteq maps are always rated better in the good ole US of A. Tele-atlas does better in europe. Depends upon where you drive I guess.
We just got a Prius with a 6" nav screen. The map is by Navteq. It doesn't have all the restaurants updated and accurate but good enough. Not sure who makes their gps unit. I don't go anywhere I'm going to get lost but it is fun to dink around with until I almost run off the road. If I ever needed another toy for my pickup, I'd probably get a garmin but wait till they came out with a 6" screen so it would be easy to glance at and see. I'm not sure about the 4" ones.
Also: There are two major map companies. Navteq and tele-atlas. Navteq is an american company and used by garmin and one other company (maybe magellan). Tele-atlas is a Europeean company. Tom-Tom (also Europeean) and another company uses tele-atlas. I have googled reports on both and the navteq maps are always rated better in the good ole US of A. Tele-atlas does better in europe. Depends upon where you drive I guess.
We just got a Prius with a 6" nav screen. The map is by Navteq. It doesn't have all the restaurants updated and accurate but good enough. Not sure who makes their gps unit. I don't go anywhere I'm going to get lost but it is fun to dink around with until I almost run off the road. If I ever needed another toy for my pickup, I'd probably get a garmin but wait till they came out with a 6" screen so it would be easy to glance at and see. I'm not sure about the 4" ones.
oliver power
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Buy a Garmin. That's what I was told by a well seasoned GPS user. He was right! I bought the "nuvi 350". Paid almost $1,000.00 for it. You can buy the same one now for around $350.00. Great navigation TOOL. The better you learn the tool , the handier it is. I use mine most every day in my business. Every day I travel to a different home , in a different city , town , county , etc.. They are not only handy for finding addresses. They are handy for driving in thick fog , heavy snow , roads with no signs , time of destination , shortcuts you may have never known of. It sometimes will take you around shortcuts you do know of. It will try to turn you around , until it figures out you know where you're going. Then it will pick back up again. On "shorter distance" setting , it may try to take you down a closed , dead end road , through a brick wall , etc.. That doesn't happen very often. If you have no idea where you're going , have the setting on "fastest time". Remember , it's a tool. The better you learn it , the better it performs. Personally , I would buy a Garmin.
John M
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I know, the TomTom accually worked better before the update! It works fine for around the area my wife works in, but the last time we used it on vacation, it was way off on more than one thing. I think one of the truckers who deliver to us, who used garmin, called them and raised h e double l withthem when he got a ticket because of it. They have changed somehow, but if they werent updated then some still used the the road, because there were no others shown on the map. I didnt believe the, until I rode with one who had Garmin.
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