What is the best brand/model of a gps?
Sausagebandit12 asked:
I am terrible at remembering places so i need a gps. I was wondering if garmin or tomtom is more reliable and which is the easiest to use and has better features and all that stuff
I am terrible at remembering places so i need a gps. I was wondering if garmin or tomtom is more reliable and which is the easiest to use and has better features and all that stuff
I have a GARMIN and it works great, it has successfully taken me on 5 400+ mile trips without a hitch. You can set you own pit stops and it incorporates it with the rest of the trip, and I found it all very simple to use.. The only thing is, if you tend to drive fast, make sure you reset the max and average speeds. I forgot that was there and my girlfriend wasn’t pleased lol. Oh and you can save destinations so you can put those places in that you keep forgeting and save them so you can easily get going.
And I hear TomTom works great well too.
TomTom are the most popular car GPS manufacturing company in the world…Garmins where good but the last two years or so they are losing ground on the ever popular TomTom units…
Over all there are so many positives that the others just don’t have Map share (map updates free) POI,s software is always being improved Voices they don’t make you pay for new voices…
One of the reasons they are able to keep the cost down is they own the map provider..Teleatlas the same one that Google uses…They went in a bidding war with Garmin and well they won and acquired TeleAtlas for there own, that one really hit garmin hard….well in a few more years it safe to say there probably won’t be any Garmins…They tested the two map providers TeleAtlas (tomtom) and Navteq(garmin) and the TomTom owned provider TeleAtlas came out ahead, I put a link below..
Have a look at the web sight and awards they won for there innovative accomplishments and go out and buy the best TomTom…
TomTom 720 Portable car navigation system, Many tested , had a garmin but upgraded to a TomTom for the free map updates and more accurate maps, same map provider as Google maps (teleatlas) acquired by TomTom a few years back and the price per feature is probably the best…..Cheers….Red
Garmin is a best gps system and popular gps, Garmin has a simple controls – simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, has a turn-by-turn voice directions, 2-D or 3-D maps and more feature.
I suggestion a Garmin nuvi model is a 205W, 255W, 760.
255W: same as 205W but has text-to-speech (you get turn by turn spoken directions with the real names of streets (e.g. “turn left in 50 feet at Nebraska Way”, rather than merely “turn left in 50 feet”)), 4.3-Inch diagonal touch screen color display, etc.
760 : has text-to-speech, 4.3-Inch diagonal touch screen color display, Bluetooth, etc.