What specific type of gps for my car would you suggest?
louuuuuuu asked:
I’m looking to buy a gps from a store like target/walmart/bestbuy and was curious on what brand/model is popular and just general an awesome buy. give me your opinions
I’m looking to buy a gps from a store like target/walmart/bestbuy and was curious on what brand/model is popular and just general an awesome buy. give me your opinions
garmin Y!A
tomtom, i have one and its great, all the updates are free , its nice Kyle B
fortunately for you the market is filled with many choices on gps these days. while this is bad for the popular makers like tom tom and garmin, it is certainly a plus for you.
the dawn of many choices has hit the shelves of your convenient stores and online stores, while garmin and tom tom face an up hill battle to improve their product, i dont think they are moving fast enough these days. so dont limit your self and certainly dont take any choices away from yourself, especially when you have options.
the last thing you want to do is spend a $100 plus on something you dont want and something that will not work well for you. someone else suggestion might be your last choice.
I have tried both. The small screen version of garmin is not the way to go, if you are like me and you are used to a touch screen keyboard then another brand is needed – qwerty keyboards suck for me. The Tom Tom has better software to find something on route. For example, if you are travelling for a few hours and you would like to get a Thai dinner along the route, Tom Tom makes good choices. Garmin is SO SO stupid, the programmers should hide their heads in the sand, because it will actually route you to Thai restaurants that are not along the route but even ones behind you. Its just retarded. Tom tom is much better as I said. However the map in Tom Tom is just not as good. Way points vary from city to city between the two gps systems. Hard to call their tech support. Garmin`s maps are simply impossible to beat, but their software is not quite as good I would say. On the other hand for novice users the garmin is much easier software to use. Oh one other thing… Garmin does make it easy to click on the map and get an overview which is easy to zoom out and click and drag around to see where you are going and what the gps has planned for you. Tom Tom can give you an overview but its not draggable (not a word I know) as far as I can figure out. Also you have to go through 2 menus to even get the overview. I find this a very very bad shortcoming because you can`t just trust a gps you need to take a look at what its planning. Sometimes they make stupid choices and screw you up bad so you have to review what they are planning. So it must be dead easy to get that overview in map form. Garmin does this nicely.
If you want to have the best of both worlds then I would consider IGO Amigo. The Newelectronx igo amigo is very nice. It basically combines the good and the good of both Garmin and Tom Tom. Very easy to use, very easy to map, and mine came with:
FREE map updates
External SDcard slot
GPS, MP3 music playback, photo album, e-Book viewer, MP4 video playback, Flash swf file playback, optional radar detector / laser detector, video games, etc
5.0 inch vibrant color touch screen
Text to speech with turn by turn directions
Used for walking, running, climbing, or driving in a vehicle
Enter coordinates or addresses
Built-in speaker with 3.5mm earphone jack output
4GB SDcard containing USA nationwide street-level map, other maps are available
Plays your videos and supports: MPEG4, DIVX5.0/4.0/3.11, XVID, MPEG2
Plays your music and read audio format: MP3, WMA
LISTEN MUSIC AT THE SAME TIME THAT YOU GET TURN BY TURN DIRECTIONS… cool!
Stores and views your pictures in formats: JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG
Features a rechargeable lithium polymer battery
7 Languages support: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Package List: GPS, Car cigar lighter power charger, Home AC adapter, USB data sync and charging cable, car windshield / dashboard mount kit
All in all I have to give newelectronx the two thumbs up.
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I used to buy one online, it is perfect. Peter
lou,
look into magellan. great gps systems, which you should be able to mount in your car.
amazon has their best selling model, the 1400, for like 65% off check it out: Al M