Looking For A Good Gps Navigation System That Is Good For You
January 24th, 2010 by Jack Logan, under Travel and Leisure. No Comments
If you are in the market to buy a GPS navigation system and it is the first time that you have ever purchased one, it might seem a little confusing the first time out. But that does not have to be if you know what you needs are. Here you’ll find a few of the best systems on the market to help you get a start.
Probably one of the best units would be the Tom Tom Go 740. This GPS navigation unit is just feature packed that gives you weather, traffic and incident reports. It also will give you the local fuel prices within seconds. The entire system is powered by Google search and map and this particular model is far faster than any of their past models.
This particular model of GPS navigation device is all real time and even has a feature where you can share your information with all your family and friends via their own instant messaging system. You can also get into the system and actually correct things that may be incorrect due to name changes, location changes, etc.
The battery life only being about two hours before you need to charge it and getting the actual directions seem to be somewhat slow seem to be the only draw backs for this GPS navigation device.
The GPS navigation device called Garmin Nuvi 1690 does offer an ad supported service through their data service that is a combination of MSN Direct and ATandT that they call NuLink. The first couple of years this service is free to their customers with intermittent ads that will come up. After that they offer an ad free service for five dollars per month.
This unit comes with Bluetooth which gives you complete hands free service. The unit is also full of fine features that most should be happy with. Some of the features include Google search, the White Pages, fuel prices, traffic reports and more. It even goes so far as to provide you with flight information.
The only draw back for this GPS navigation unit is the fact that it no longer takes standard size SD memory cards and have switched to microSD cards.
Tom Tom XL340 S is another GPS navigation system by Tom Tom and is a lower priced model than the Go 740 but that does not mean it is lacking in features or capabilities. It is a larger more readable model but that can make for making it less portable. Yet it has a wonderful safety feature which is speech to text technology which makes it easily hands free.
The voice to text allows the Tom Tom to talk as well and you can get the speech in English, French and Spanish. The most fun part of this is that you can download voices of celebrities for an entertaining touch to your GPS navigation system.
Magellan Roadmate 1470 is a one touch GPS navigation system that puts all the most used destinations and places of interests by others at your finger tips at all times. It includes all the same features as most systems and the response time is very quick with its touch screen that displays very easy to see large icons.
The biggest draw back with this unit is that the way it has to be mounted makes it hard to arrange the power cable with out it being in the way.
Have you ever looked all of the portable gps deals that are out there? Gps systems are definitely a big hit in the universe today. With the best GPS system, you will never get stranded again.
