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Well, I finally broke down and bought a gps yesterday. Been wanting one for a while now. I actually got the TomTom one for christmas, but was missing a piece, and when I tried to swap it, they were out.
So I been holding off for a good deal on an upgraded mode. Yesterday, I bought the Garmin Nuvi 350 system. I have not used it yet, just put it in the truck this morning.
What I do love about it, is its really small for easy transporting. Its about the size of a deck of cards. That does sound tiny, and hard to read, but it is not at all. It will take literally 1 minute to take out of my truck and put in another car, so I will be taking it everywhere I go!
It also has millions of POI's (points of interest), so it will show you the closest ATM's, food, gas, and other stuff, based on where you are. I tested that out and selected food, it listed all the nearby restaraunts and I could just select one and it mapped it instantly. Awesome.
It also came with a carry case, which is a case similar to carrying a cell phone. You could carry this in your pocket pretty easily.
This one had some extra features I really liked, such as a photo album viewer, MP3 player, world clock, currency converter, etc..
This unit also does the text to speech, so it reads the street names out to you, unlike the tomtom. I plugged it up, and it found the satellites in about a minute. So far, this thing is great!
I got mine at circuit city. They have a sale on about every GPS unit in stock. This one was around $170 off the usual price, had to have it
Anyone else using a gps? What model do you use? How do you like it?
So I been holding off for a good deal on an upgraded mode. Yesterday, I bought the Garmin Nuvi 350 system. I have not used it yet, just put it in the truck this morning.
What I do love about it, is its really small for easy transporting. Its about the size of a deck of cards. That does sound tiny, and hard to read, but it is not at all. It will take literally 1 minute to take out of my truck and put in another car, so I will be taking it everywhere I go!
It also has millions of POI's (points of interest), so it will show you the closest ATM's, food, gas, and other stuff, based on where you are. I tested that out and selected food, it listed all the nearby restaraunts and I could just select one and it mapped it instantly. Awesome.
It also came with a carry case, which is a case similar to carrying a cell phone. You could carry this in your pocket pretty easily.
This one had some extra features I really liked, such as a photo album viewer, MP3 player, world clock, currency converter, etc..
This unit also does the text to speech, so it reads the street names out to you, unlike the tomtom. I plugged it up, and it found the satellites in about a minute. So far, this thing is great!
I got mine at circuit city. They have a sale on about every GPS unit in stock. This one was around $170 off the usual price, had to have it
Anyone else using a gps? What model do you use? How do you like it?