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I really want to get a gps, I don't really want to spend a ton of money seeing I don't travel too much. I've been looking around but there are like millions of brands. So any brands anyone recommends any to stay away from?

I have a Garmin c330. I love it. Best thing I ever bought. one of those things that now I have it and wonder how I lived without.

k19smith wrote:I really want to get a gps, I don't really want to spend a ton of money seeing I don't travel too much. I've been looking around but there are like millions of brands. So any brands anyone recommends any to stay away from?

What is the intended purpose ? car/boat/hiking
or just for fun

Car

My friend Tom owns a tom-tom, (really) after seeing what it does, and hearing about the three my sister has returned for various reasons, I would get a tom-tom. One of my sisters' biggest complaint is, with the after market ones, they are hard to hear. Make sure you can hear the voice over your engine while driving.

We have a Garmin. The Nuvi. We really like it. No problems hearing it at all. We had no idea where we were in a big city one time, punched in the name of a restaurant near where we knew we wanted to be and it took us there with ease. Good luck.

I was given the Magellan Maestro for Christmas--kicks the sh*t out of mapquest!

I love my Garmin Nuvi 360. Works better than the GPS that was built into my new car.

After looking around at all kinds of options, talking to people, and searching through consumer reports, we purchased the Garmin Nuvi 260 a couple of months ago. We could not be any happier. It is great and does "text-to-speech" which basically means it will announce the road names for you (an option we really like). Bass Pro had them for $250 in this week's ad.

I just go on Blind Faith, and have a lot of "Adventures".....

Sounds so much better than being lost....

Garmin seems to have the best software of the GPS units I have used. They all have similiar accuracy now. I take my Garmin Nuvi everywhere I go now. Even when Hertz gives me a free neverlost, I still use my Nuvi. I've had it for two years and need to update the maps and data. There seem to be a lot of newer hotels and roads in some cities that I visit.

I have the TomTom One. I know there are fancier models out there with more options, but this does what I need it to do. If it gets too "techie" it defeats the purpose for me. This one is easy to use, I can hear it just fine and it was fairly cheap. We used it this weekend to find a bank close by, as well as nearby restaurants. I have a decent sense of direction but I am often out exploring on country roads by myself and it's easy to get lost. This way I know where my main highways are and I can find a bathroom out there in the boondocks. The tomtom one does NOT announce the street name to turn on, but it does count down the mileage and then down to yards. I also review my route via text, so I have an idea of what I'm looking for.

The main issue I had with it this weekend is it not knowing which streets were one way. That kind of surprised me. Thankfully we knew streets were one way in that town so we were paying attention, but if someone was focusing and relying too much on the gps and not paying attention to the actual roads, it could get ugly fast.

Conolulu wrote:I just go on Blind Faith, and have a lot of "Adventures".....

Sounds so much better than being lost....

same here

Conolulu wrote:I just go on Blind Faith, and have a lot of "Adventures".....

Sounds so much better than being lost....

I dimly remember one of those in Orlando...

I have a Garmin GPSmap 60CSx. It is hand held. Use it to go GeoCaching http://www.geocaching.com/ with the family. We have a ton of fun hiking thru the woods looking for treasures.

I think it all depends what you want to use it for.

When I've needed one, I've just used VZ Navigator on my Verizon phone.

It's worked well for what I needed, which wasn't much.

SharkOnLand wrote:When I've needed one, I've just used VZ Navigator on my Verizon phone.

It's worked well for what I needed, which wasn't much.

I'm curious, how is the accuracy on your phone? I have heard the GPS in phones knocked because of poor accuracy, have you experienced this?

GumboPirate wrote:I was given the Magellan Maestro for Christmas--kicks the sh*t out of mapquest!

a monkey sitting on the hood of your car pointing the way is better than mapquest

ph4ever wrote:

GumboPirate wrote:I was given the Magellan Maestro for Christmas--kicks the sh*t out of mapquest!

a monkey sitting on the hood of your car pointing the way is better than mapquest

Plus Shane just looks so damb cute sitting there...

Skibo wrote:

SharkOnLand wrote:When I've needed one, I've just used VZ Navigator on my Verizon phone.

It's worked well for what I needed, which wasn't much.

I'm curious, how is the accuracy on your phone? I have heard the GPS in phones knocked because of poor accuracy, have you experienced this?

It's been a while since I used it, but it was pretty accurate. It had an issue in a parking lot adjacent to a street, but once I got on the actual street it was ok.