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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 22, 2008, 12:57:57 PM

Title: I need a GPS and GPS advice
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 22, 2008, 12:57:57 PM

TVC, what GPS did you get?

My honking old TomTom One died and I think I just want to replace it with something less gargantuan. If it lives again I will sell it.

Title: Re: I need a GPS and GPS advice
Post by: AdmiralViscen on July 22, 2008, 01:00:15 PM

Look into the Mio line, I sell them all the time at my store. At least among our stock, it's the cheapest nav system to offer text-to-speech.

Title: Re: I need a GPS and GPS advice
Post by: TakingBackSunday on July 22, 2008, 01:04:28 PM

Garmin

Title: Re: I need a GPS and GPS advice
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 22, 2008, 01:06:15 PM

Himuro would recommend I buy a Garmin:

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F0c7wDgcL._SS400_.jpg)

Title: Re: I need a GPS and GPS advice
Post by: TVC15 on July 22, 2008, 01:10:30 PM

I got a Garmin nuvi 780.  It seemed like the best model you could get before you start getting to the really expensive models.  I'm sure you can find a model that's even cheaper that fits your needs.

Title: Re: I need a GPS and GPS advice
Post by: patrickula on July 22, 2008, 01:37:55 PM

Amazon has the 660 for $300, which seems like a pretty good deal to me...  I've been looking into getting a GPS device myself.
If I decided I want to take it to Europe sometime, I'd be able to buy a map update separately at that point right?

Title: Re: I need a GPS and GPS advice
Post by: TVC15 on July 22, 2008, 01:39:51 PM

Quote from: patrickula on July 22, 2008, 01:37:55 PM

Amazon has the 660 for $300, which seems like a pretty good deal to me...  I've been looking into getting a GPS device myself.
If I decided I want to take it to Europe sometime, I'd be able to buy a map update separately at that point right?

Yeah.  My Garmin came with the complete maps for the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

From what my friend said (and I have seen similar statements on the net), Garmin has the slightly better US maps, and TomTom has the slightly better Europe maps, but I've also heard that the quality is similar enough that it doesn't really matter.

Title: Re: I need a GPS and GPS advice
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 22, 2008, 01:47:01 PM

I got the 350 because I'm a cheapo bastard

Title: Re: I need a GPS and GPS advice
Post by: patrickula on July 22, 2008, 02:10:25 PM

Yeah I might be leaning toward the 3 series now... I'm not sure if a bigger/wider screen is worth $100.

Man this shit is confusing, too many options  ???

Title: Re: I need a GPS and GPS advice
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 22, 2008, 02:41:24 PM

Quote from: patrickula on July 22, 2008, 02:10:25 PM

Yeah I might be leaning toward the 3 series now... I'm not sure if a bigger/wider screen is worth $100.

I already have a Jawbone, so the Bluetooth stuff is mostly academic. And while traffic info is cool, I'm too cheap to pay the yearly fee to use it. The bigger screen is cool, but I didn't care for the rest of the feature creep.