Another GPS thread

[RatLabGuy]

'cause, well, it's been a few weeks sicne the last one..?

Wife nabbed a Garmin c330 at Wally World Friday amongst all the otehr 5-am insanity. I'd asked her to look for the Nuvi 650 supposedly for $298 I spotted online but they didn't have it.
After some quick reading, eems a bit inadequite. Esp, sicne it works only in the cradle?
Anyhow I did some quick digging and scooped a deal on a Nuvi 660 for only $400 at Best Buy, got oen of the last ones.
I have waited on opening it though, looking for opinionss on this units or others in the $300-$400 range. wife needs something very user-friendly. She likes teh idea that this one supposedly reads the actual street names to you rather than "turn left in 500 feet".

What features are actually very useful, and what is not? And what aret he chances of it being useful in a place like Uwharrie w/o official "roads"?

 

[Ron]

fOR ROAD NAVIGATION, THE TOM TOM IS HAARD TO BEAT.

When we were testing them for our service gusy I had one in my car for 4 weeks.
I was impressed with "Turn left in 300ft and immediateluy get in the left lane to prepare for next turn" That was nice

 

[Rich]

I'm using Telenav on my PPC.. I like it because the maps are updated quarterly, and it's easier to take with me. My new phone requires a standalone GPS receiver, but that thing is no bigger than 2 packs of playing cards, and has the advantage of using WAAS.

It does the real-time traffic re-routing and alerting, and you can setup your routes from your PC, or call it in and let the voice recognition (which works well) convert that to the address, if you don't want to type it in on the phone.

On earlier phones it wasn't so good, but the version 5 is pretty sweet...