navigation units
 

i drive alot.... i get lost alot... therefore i had the brilliant idea of gettting a nav unit. i want one portable so i can take it between saturn and camaro. i don't wanna spend more than 300. i'm leaning towards teh tomtom one. anyone have any input, otherwise i'm buying the tomtom solely based on the cool name.

i had a tomto mand had no complaints, it was easy to use and had a nice touch screen, i never got lost with it

Mio Digiwalker 310 - new maps should be out very soon, and it's a great, easy to use interface. $200 shipped from Frys.com

Also doubles as an MP3 player....

- Justin

justin, can you save favorite places? any points of interest?

had the tom tom a few years ago had no complaints, sister has the top of the range garmin model which does everything and she has no problems with it majority of them are very good.

i think the one justin is talking about does have the POI and fav places but correct me if im wrong.....

i now just use bluetooth gps receiver and my moto q much easier for me, 1000 miles a week min i dont get lost anymore

i just got a new job and i get to use the magellan 7something..its great. it takes a min or 2 to get a signal once you turn it on but that might be because it gets beat to **** cuz the employees dont care about it. but its great!! never get lost!

Yes, on both counts.

There are several thousand points of interest, and you can save your own in custom groups (Family, friends, etc).

You might have to look around a bit to find one, as they just released their next generation stuff (although the 320 does look very nice, it's more expensive).

You can also talk to Barb - he has the same one. It's certainly not the best GPS on the market, but for the price I can't think of anything better.

- Justin

Be careful with touch screens. My tom tom go has a sensitivity issue and when I hit bumps sometimes esp. in the summer when it's hot and the screen seems to expand I get random TOUCHES where the screen starts jumping around and random buttons get pressed.

I don't know if it's just the unit I bought was defective but it's about 3 years old and extremely annoying. If I had to do it over again I'd skip the touch screen crap and get one that has easy to use buttons or something.

I run the Magellan roadmate...something...it kicks ass, has a bazillion points of interest, allows you to save your own, touch screen, typically takes less than 1 minute to "find" itself, and has great battery life(more than 3 hours)

+1...have the same thing and it is awesome!!!

i played around with the magellan, along with the tomtom and a few garmins, today at circuit city. the guy at circuit city advised me against tomtom, not quite sure what to take from that. my favorite that i used was the garmin nuvi. although it is a little pricey, i'd still rather have a more updated model as opposed to the garmin c330 that was on sale but looked very outdated. the tomtom is still on the back of my mind and as is the magellan. i'm probably gonna go back tomorrow and play with the tomtom and the magellan because the garmins are slightly out of my price range. any other recomendations or advisories?

I use an Atlas..........but i'm old school like that.