GPS.....What ones are great and which ones are not so hot?...

[Dar]

If you were going to buy a GPS what kind would you buy?

I dont want the most expensive but I do want accurate

I dont need:
Altimeter
Address Book
Barometer
Calculator
Calendar
Heart Rate Monitor (really? are you kidding me they come with this?)
Waypoint Icons (I dont even know what this is so I guess I dont need it)


I would like :
Compass
JPEG Image Viewer
Touchscreen
Voice Activated

so what would you suggest?..why or why not?....thanks

 

[jqs birds]

Waypoints are a symbol you can put on your GPS that it will remember to mark a certain spot.

 

[Dar]

ooo ok....so maybe I want that option

 

[NancyDz]

We bought a garmin Nuvi 2 years ago and drove across country.. it's been excellent. I don't know if it has all that stuff but I'd recommend the Garmin brand definitely. Easy to use and it's been really accurate.

 

[gypsy2621]

I have a Garmin and only had one issue with it getting confused and that was when they were resetting the Satellite.
I love my GPS and never leave home with out it, I can get lost in my own darned driveway some days.

 

[LittleChickenRacingTeam]

I bought one of these this weekend.

Great price, $300 off list.

And Canadian Tire offers extended warranty on this product.

http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brow...PRDOVR~0352545P/Magellan+Maestro+5310+GPS.jsp

 

[bheila]

We bought a Garmin Nuvi 760 2 years ago when it was the top rated GPS in Consumer Reports. We LOVE it!

 

[The Chicken Lady]

We have a couple of Garmin handhelds (you can get suction cup mounts for the car and mounts for bike handlebars, too). My husband has a newer one than mine. I like his better because it has a color screen and it beeps to alert for upcoming turns. Mine is grayscale and silent; it navigates the same but is harder to see.

We were on a cruise a couple of years ago and noticed that a cruise ship uses a Garmin GPS for its navigation. If the brand is good enough for a major cruise line, it has to be good enough for our car!

I'd suggest getting a GPS where you can expand the GPS' internal memory by adding an SD card or memory stick. We have to transfer maps from computer software to our GPS. DH got a huge memory card for his, so we were able to put all of North America on our GPS; no more worrying if we put in the map for Ohio or whatnot.

We've used the GPS on several big trips... It was our main guide from Michigan to New York City, and it worked fine out in the middle of Lake Michigan, too, when we were on the car ferry. We've used it for both land and nautical navigation; works great both ways.