| # |
Username |
GPS model |
Pros |
Cons |
Rating |
| 1 |
markwolstenholme |
Garmin Nuvi 255W |
Good use of widescreen area. Nice menu navigation. Pictures of places (using photorama) is a nice addition. |
Zooming in and out of maps could be easier. |
6 |
| 2 |
david.gillen |
nuvi 660 |
Lightweight, compact, portable and has a wide screen. |
Not an adequate amount of onboard memory. |
7 |
| 3 |
bobbyray52 |
Garmin c550 |
Easy to see even in bright sunlight |
Bluetooth has trouble staying connected sometimes |
9 |
| 4 |
grant.moore3 |
Nuvi 250W |
large screen, easy to operate with large on screen buttons, clear easy to see screen and colour scheme, accurate directions and efficient navigation on fastest time mode. |
flimsy on/off switch, voice directions are too frequent and get very annoying. |
9 |
| 5 |
byatt |
Nuvi 310 |
Easy to use, finds most addresses required |
Bit late at calling turns |
7 |
| 6 |
bobmay |
garmin 760 |
Seems good, just downloaded 60 page manual. |
I would like a setable speed sensor like VDO...but my VDO doesn't have add in POIs |
7 |
| 7 |
gambales |
Garmin Nuvi 760 |
Voice navigation, ease of use, fast recalculation speeds |
Finding address order needs to be variable (user choice), screen gets dirty easy |
8 |
| 8 |
wawrzyniuk |
PIN570 |
Easy to use
All in one unit GPS & PDA |
When battery goes flat have to reload all PDA Data |
6 |
| 9 |
marshallecurrier |
780 |
Quick start-up time (compared to TomTom GO products), reliable mapping engine, 780 has nice optimizing multiwaypoint routing feature.
Great mount. (Havent tested new TomTom mount) |
Quickly finding POIs near a point on map is difficult.
No avoiding a section of the route, example, Avoid:Main St - Does feature avoiding highways or toll roads. |
7 |
| 10 |
funnplay |
Garmin Nuvi 760 |
bright, easy to operate |
Voice sometimes has delay, it says after I made the turn |
7 |
| 11 |
greg.marshall69 |
Garmin nuvi 255W |
wide screen, gives street directions using names |
doesnt have bluetooth, but knew that at the time of purchase |
8 |
| 12 |
TTowner |
TomTom Go720 |
Fast routing, ease of use. |
Poor customer service.
TomTom are slow to implement map corrections. New maps seem to be back to square one with any corrections from previous maps lost. |
7 |
| 13 |
kholm |
Nüve 770 |
Preloaded European and USA maps. Hands-free Calling. Easy to use. |
The nüve 770 is suppose to recognize mp3 on the scan disk, but it does not (or ar least for me). |
6 |
| 14 |
kroberts2 |
Garmin Nuvi 310 |
Lightweight, compact and portable |
Screen difficult to read in direct sunlight |
6 |
| 15 |
matthew.holden |
Garmin Nuvi 760 |
Lightweight
Reasonable battery life but could be better
|
Cannot maintain and ad-hoc track for export to Google Earth
Purchased with Volvo car so device was private labelled to work with Volvo.
Poor protective pouch design - turns device on when you slide the GPS into the slipcase! |
5 |
| 16 |
guycockburn |
Garmin nuvi 260 |
simple to use |
alpha selection not qwerty on most devices in society |
7 |
| 17 |
wzensen |
Garmin Nüvi 660 |
car holder like a docking station
good display
good navigation
robust |
expensive late update of card material
expensive add on card like Topo maps
weak JPEG viewer |
7 |
| 18 |
iansp |
garmin nuvi 660FM |
all of it FM and bluetooth very good |
flip up aerial ... built in would be better |
5 |
| 19 |
john.h |
Zumo 550 |
Good GPS |
Mapsource has a terrible interface |
8 |
| 20 |
sujay |
Tom Tom One XL |
Large screen, easy to use menu, easy to update |
Terrible customer support, hard to find support numbers etc. |
7 |
| 21 |
andrew.zac |
Garmin Nuvi760 |
Compact, easy to use, plays mp3s, has blue tooth for hands free phone use. |
Has 2008 maps and have not been able to download 2009 map updates yet. Several roads have been added and changed were I go. |
7 |
| 22 |
reijo.perkiomaki |
Garmin Nüvi 660E |
GUI for entering address. Accurate time estimates to destination. Management of Favourites and POIs, both on device and with PC. |
Only 2 Routing options: Fastest/Shortest. No speed limits visualization/warnings of overspeeding. |
8 |
| 23 |
ddprv |
Garmin Zumo 550 |
Garmin Zumo 550 is great on my moterbike, waterproof, etc. |
Cost, sometimes fails to load maps and then shuts down. |
8 |
| 24 |
bluecattledog |
Nuvi 310 |
cheap, simple, comprehensive |
No bluetooth on MP3 player to car stereo |
8 |
| 25 |
jungleman07 |
Garmin Nuvi 680 |
Bluetooth, FM Transmitter, Traffic Updates. |
No search function in MP3 player
no memory function in search - stored lookups |
6 |
| 26 |
bob.kite |
nuvi 310 |
Says names of streets |
Sometimes gets names of streets wrong when turning from one street to another |
7 |
| 27 |
matssys |
Tom Tom GO 720 |
Quicker to start than my old GPS, great connectivity with my 3G phone. |
Can't adjust volume level between warnings and mp3 files |
7 |
| 28 |
dorrywin |
hp ipaqrx5765 |
easy to use. It is nice an portable |
Don’t know as yes but trying to down load maps at tom tom home. All so trying to get the computer in tom tom home mode to pick up the device.
Some time it sends you off on a wild goose chase |
4 |
| 29 |
matthewbates |
Nuvi 760 |
Ease of use |
Recalculating time could be a little faster |
8 |
| 30 |
baileysat |
nuvi760 |
simplicity of operation, great look, |
voices great but with volume at 100% , at times hard to hear over radio or with window down. pronunciation of some streets a bit weird. |
6 |
| 31 |
noel.philcomm |
TomTom One Edition 4 |
compact for travelling |
no mains charger.
No auto on when connected to DC or timed OFF when disconnected from DC. |
7 |
| 32 |
peterg |
Tom Tom GO910 |
Good wide screen, tracks position well, easy to use interface |
original maps of australia well out of date, service backup poor, software glitches periodically requiring reset, auto night screen faulty |
6 |
| 33 |
dorf |
Garmin XT on NOKIA N95 |
Works great on my NOKIA N95.
The mapping actually got me into the center of Australia on unsurfaced dirt roads. |
Could use voice turn by turn instructions. |
8 |
| 34 |
osalih |
Garmin Nuvi 260 |
Easy to use, very intuitive interface, quick routing, text-to-speech, localised voices, great website support, heaps of POIs, slim and compact, great unit |
No next turn arrow on main navigation screen - displayed as text (left/right) at top of screen instead, no clock on trip details screen, estimated time of arrival shown rather than time left to destination |
7 |
| 35 |
shollis |
TOMTOM ONE XL |
Reliable, lots of support, easy to view and use. |
No verbal alert.
Supplied windscreen mount is compact but not very versatile. |
9 |
| 36 |
hollandj |
GO720T |
Easy to use |
TomTom Traffic option not useful |
7 |
| 37 |
landsi |
TomTom 920 |
I am talking about the TomTom x20 models=x30 models. Very good and handy. Good quality! LINUX system! Very good customable. European product (dutch)- design. |
Not perfect connectivity with the Mac (08/2008), but OK. Lousy manual. Very bad documentation for skilled and advanced user. Made in China |
9 |
| 38 |
dahenry |
Garmin Nuvi 760 |
Lots of included tools and functions.
Great phone tech support for the one problem Ive seen once you wait for the hour on hold. |
Buying a MadMap via the Garmin site wiped the
unit clean but their tech support helped reload it easily. Slow to load pictures but they were not
sized for the screen either. Had one issue when the battery was exhausted but finally came back on. |
7 |
| 39 |
sunfrog |
garmin nuvi 760 |
Works quite well. Good range of voices. |
Pronunciation of some street names a bit strange. |
7 |
| 40 |
canamaya |
NUVI 310 |
Simple, easy to operate, accurate, compact, Does well mounted on a scooter too!! Just watch the rain |
|
9 |
| 41 |
chris222 |
Garmin nuvi 310 |
Lightweight, Extrememly accurate in distance, fast refresh, fast satellite lock, loaded with extra features, like MP3, bluetooth phone connection for handsfree, reads you text messages, accesses phonebook for direct dialing from the GPDS Unit |
bluetooth can sometimes be buggy. |
8 |
| 42 |
chocc08 |
Garmin Nuvi 260 |
Quite an excellent little unit. Its small light weight and quite durable. Still much more to learn about it as it has alot of options. |
Havent found one yet. |
7 |
| 43 |
dprcrna |
Garmin Street Pilot c340 |
Has all the features needed without the stuff you probably have on other devices (bluetooth, mp3). Compatible with Total Traffic Network. |
Size is a little bulky, but with proper mounting it fits perfectly. |
7 |
| 44 |
jonathanmichael66 |
Garmin GPSMAP76CSx |
micro SD card
excellent reception |
screen is a bit small |
9 |
| 45 |
roofshop |
Navman S90i |
Just new seems fine to use, lots of features |
easy to select the wrong letters when entering street addresses etc. |
7 |
| 46 |
bobjoy1 |
TomTom Go 920T |
Maps of Europe and Nth America are a great bonus for travellers.
I like the Itinery Planning feature. |
Manually zooming in and out seems a bit flaky at times. |
7 |
| 47 |
mellawes |
nuvi760 |
pretty good |
some new estates and shopping centres and new roads that have been just built |
7 |
| 48 |
jacteresa |
nuvi 250 |
average function |
screen too small |
4 |
| 49 |
paryan02 |
IPAQ RX1950 |
Portable
Cheap
|
Small Screen |
4 |
| 50 |
greg |
Garmin Zumo 550 |
Works great for motorcycles. |
The mapsource program is not that user freindly. |
6 |
