GPS

[YORKGUM]

I researched all brands for years, talk to the pros, pilots etc and settled on the Garmin c550. Still works great but is old now. Need to replace the battery in it and found instructions to do that. It's pretty darn accurate. I love the blue tooth. It reads my address book on my cellphone. I can dial from it also. Pretty cool.

I'm not sure what I'd replace it with now. Probably like a 760. I'm sticking with Garmin though. And I purchase the new map discs when they are released.

 

[titan2]

Barney,

Hope this doesn't shock you...new Garmin Nuvi 760 for $154.99

http://www.navigenius.com/products.asp?product_id=11085

Yep, that's great! About $30 or so less than I spent.......but, it was going for almost $500 at Fry's Electronics where I checked a lot of them out! You just gotta make the best deal you can and go on from there. Heck, I remember my first hard drive I bought for a PC.....got an external hard drive for my Radio Shack 4P........it was half price.........$999........what size hard drive you ask???? IIRC it was 5mb.....that's right.....5mb and that was in 1985 or there abouts! Now, I can get a 1TB drive for about 1/10th of that!!!!

It's a crazy world or what???


Barney

 

[Dario]

Barney,

I checked online. That seller apparently is a "bait and switch". Apparently, they try to force you to order the (overpriced) accessories and warranty. If you do not order them, they will cancel your order.

You did really well on that purchase then.

I know about the electronic prices...I did same for SD cards when they were new, now they are dirt cheap.

 

[flyingmelon]

Got a Garmin from my wife about a year ago. It has taken us from coast to coast without a problem. My only comment when we got it and I heard the female voice was "Great another women telling me where to go and how to get there" LOML didn't laugh.

 

[KenV]

The one on my wife's I-Phone works well and I do not have to get yet another piece of gear -- and she is usually supervising my driving. She has no (zip nada) sense of direction so the I-phone feature is a good thing for her.

 

[jkoehler]

I got the WIFE model a few years back.
the main problem i have found with it is that it only gives directions one way, always tells me where to go, but it never tells the directions for the return trip.