I have the Garmin 650 Nuvi, got it for xmas, its $300 shipped at Costco.com

I like it a lot, but haven't experienced other navi's, so can't really tell you if it's better or worse

 

Went to costco this weekend and picked this out.
Magellan Maestro 3225
http://tinyurl.com/5k3skk (link to Costco)
My sister has this exact same one and she likes it. Since I'm getting it for my birthday, I haven't played around with it at all.

 

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Magellan 3100 is $74.98 at Target on Clearance.

 

:hsdunno: They seem to get good ratings. Plus its costco, so if I don't like it anytime, I'll take it back and get a different one.
What other GPS's would you guys suggest? The Garmin my sister had before this wasn't all that great.

 

Thanks. I'll have to see if I can find it just to look more at it. I like how the 3225 has text to speech though.

 

I see you decided to cheap out.

I think HP released this iPAQ 310 a bit prematurely. The initial reviews said there were a few half-baked features to it, some quirks to the routing, etc. By the time I bought mine in February there were a whole bunch of updates available which I installed. Never really worried experienced some of the problems in the initial reviews.

I checked for updates today and there's a new version of the companion software for the PC which I downloaded and installed, and it shows there's basically a whole new set of almost everything in the damned device save for the underlying OS and some of the landmark and 3D buildings databases. The navigation program, plus like every map, and every state POI database, and most of the text-to-speech data, a total of 1.4 GB worth, is available for updates. I'd say this should hopefully fix any remaining negatives.

That said, HP probably already screwed the pooch by releasing a product that wasn't fully ready to ship out the door, and all the reviews online will reflect those bugs. Not to mention that unless someone buys this thing, installs the PC software, checks for updates, and then decides to install all 1.4 GB worth, they probably will run around on the old version.

Oh well, cool product HP, I like mine, too bad you probably won't sell too many of em at a profit...

 

fleshlight.

 

That looked like a good one, but since my parents are buying it I couldn't expect them to drop that much.
I'm going to keep looking around. The other ones I saw at costco was a huge jump for things I didn't need. I wanted traffic, but you have to pay monthly for that. I can add more POI if I want. I would like voice recognition, but with that then most have bluetooth and mp3 players and a shit ton of other features that I don't need and don't want to pay 3 times the amount for.

 

i just put the garmin software on my motorola q9h....liking it so far.