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GPS Recomendations??....
My wife needs a GPS badly!!....she has the worst sense of direction of anybody I know...I'm always jokingly telling her she couldn't find her way out of a paper bag......
She's driving down to Virginia next month so I figured its a good time to buy her one......looking for suggestions on which are the best or easiest to use......I personally still prefer to look at maps (yeah....I'm old school), but she can't figure maps out either, its all greek to her....Maps must be a guy thing I guess......So anyway....suggestions appreciated?....thanks guys... 
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Re: GPS Recomendations??....
I've tried TomTom, Magellan and Garmin and always found the Garmin products easiest to use in terms of setting routes and finding things. I currently use a Garmin Nuvi 855 which has a built in MP3 player so I have my "tunes" and "nav" in one box.
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=33922 p.s. the reason I first got a GPS was because of my wife's hopeless map reading and direction skills! lol
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Re: GPS Recomendations??....
Thanks Dave, I did some online research and was leaning towards a Garmin.....ease of use is very important to her!....Kevin
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Re: GPS Recomendations??....
I used to think: "Why would anyone need a gps in a car?" Roads are generally clearly marked with distance and direction. You cannot easily deviate from a road. However, a couple of years ago I rented a Toyota Sienna from Hertz to drive to a wedding in Chico, Ca. The Sienna had an after market gps (marked Hertz). I used it and it worked great! Just enter in destination and whammo, a voice told you when, where and direction to turn and gave distance to the destination!. Very kool! I guess most of you guys are used to these things. Having grown up with 4 tracks and 8 tracks, this was kool to me.
I also read a study that women navigate different then men. Men use direction and distance (go west, 5 miles then turn north) where women use landmarks (go down to the 7-11 and turn left).
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Re: GPS Recomendations??....
[QUOTE=I also read a study that women navigate different then men. Men use direction and distance (go west, 5 miles then turn north) where women use landmarks (go down to the 7-11 and turn left).[/QUOTE]
Ain't that the truth!....when ever I mention .." Go North on 95 then take 117 West".....she gets upset with me, cause it doesn't mean anything to her......
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Re: GPS Recomendations??....
I have a Garmin. As good as it is and easy to use I have dumped it. (well giving it to my son) in favor of my Android built in GPS. It comes with two actually. One costs to use the other is free. I use the free one. It's fine. It's voice navigation is buggy but I don't use that part so......
The idea is to have one less thing in the car to hook up etc. The phone is with me all the time so I never have to worry about moving it from one car to the other like the Garmin.
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I imagine the Iphone is much like this Galaxy S II skyrocket but the Galaxy has a much bigger screen. The BIG screen is important for those of us with eyesight that isn't what is use to be.  Bottom line it's like a Popeil's Pocket Fisherman it's a web browser, GPS, text by talking, more apps than I'll ever use and oh yah, a phone. The days of separate GPS boxes is numbered just like the pagers of old .
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I would suggest a portable Tom Tom as its the most friendly user interface I am familer with. Simply enter the street address and the state and most of it is figured out by default. I use one of these for work and I have to admit its easier than my pioneer unit. GC
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Hey John
I used to think pretty much the same, then we had "The Incident". It was actually on the trip down to look at what is now my ZR-1 in fact. We drove down towards the border with the US and pulled off the main highway (401) for the night. The following morning we came out of the hotel, got to the first intersection and my wife said "turn right". I have a very good sense of direction and knew 100% this was wrong, but she insisted and wouldn't back down. She had the maps so I ended up going along with it. Three hours later we finally un-lost ourselves and crossed the border. I was so annoyed I said that as soon as we got back I was going to order a GPS! I like them because they're good for finding your way around unfamiliar towns and so on. They open up a lot of options that before I probably wouldn't have tried because of worries about getting lost. The fact that I can have all my music in this one is "pure gravy" 
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