I bought a Garmin Nuvi 350 in March/April last year and like it. I chose the Garmin after viewing some comparison sites dedicated to GPS devices. The 350/360 only accepts one waypoint enroute and custom routes are not an option. The 760, at about $500, can accept up to 10 waypoints & custom routes, IIRC, and has a larger 4.3 inch screen vs. about $ 250 for 3.5 inch 350/360. The Nuvi line offers male & female voices and includes US, British, and Australian accents as well as Czech, German, French, et al. The Brits referred to the Baltimore Beltway as "I (eye) six hundred and ninety-five". They will sometimes says "MD 7" or "VA 7" versus Maryland 7 or Virginia 7, for example. My new MDX has Nav (don't know the maker). No voice choices but all the named units do real-time re-routing and permit adjusting how "talkative" you want the guidance unit to be. They allow choice for quickest or easiest routing and avoidance preferences such as highways or tolls roads. All of these named systems will display POI, to a greater or lesser degree, such as nearest restaurants, hospitals, hotels, gas stations. My new Motorola Q9h phone has GPS internals and can use Google maps to give turn-by-turn directions but only visually and I had to reselect current position & destination to get updated routing/travel info. Many Windows Mobile phones have GPS and often the maker will not tell you about the free facility using Google maps. YMMV -- We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 -- and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? - Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917 -2008)
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