GPS Devices

Thanks everyone for all of your input. J.











"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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Keith Willshaw wrote:
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Incorrect. My GPS has bluetooth which I use to connect to my
bluetooth enabled phone to retrieve traffic information and it acts
as a hands free unit.

Keith

If you have your phone with you, then in effect your car is partially
bluetooth enabled.

My car has no bluetooth devices. You could use the GPS/Phone
combo in ANY vehicle including a horse and buggy

Does it let you use car radio for the spoken instrtuctions?

No it has its own speaker

Keith

My point was this: If you have your bluetooth phone in a canoe or
golf-cart, then your canoe or golf cart are effectively bluetooth enabled
while your phone is in them.

The OP's statement was that you needed a blue tooth equipped car.

The interface in a bluetooth-equipped car is
different because you can actually hear the gps instructions through the
radio, and it's the car that gets all the optional updates. You can also
use your phone legally, because it becomes hands-free in a bluetooth
equipped car.

My TomTom acts as a hands free unit for the phone

Keith

Keith Willshaw wrote:

The TomTom has in my opinion a better user interface than Garmin
and its map sets were much cheaper when I bought mine

I found myself in a vehicle with both an active TomTom and Garmin GPS.
The Garmin worked much better, to the point that we ended up using the
TomTom as a map light. And in my opinion, the Garmin had a better user
interface. This is, of course, one data point and one person's opinion.

I would not buy a GPS for another person unless I had a very good idea
of that person's preferences and how they planned to use the GPS.

"Robin Stober" wrote in message
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Keith Willshaw wrote:

The TomTom has in my opinion a better user interface than Garmin
and its map sets were much cheaper when I bought mine

I found myself in a vehicle with both an active TomTom and Garmin GPS. The
Garmin worked much better, to the point that we ended up using the TomTom
as a map light. And in my opinion, the Garmin had a better user
interface. This is, of course, one data point and one person's opinion.


So the Garmin worked so well you needed a map light

Keith

Tom tom, yes. adn Garmin. garmin can have other cool features for dudes u know...

Keith Willshaw wrote:
"Robin wrote in message
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Keith Willshaw wrote:

The TomTom has in my opinion a better user interface than Garmin
and its map sets were much cheaper when I bought mine

I found myself in a vehicle with both an active TomTom and Garmin GPS. The
Garmin worked much better, to the point that we ended up using the TomTom
as a map light. And in my opinion, the Garmin had a better user
interface. This is, of course, one data point and one person's opinion.


So the Garmin worked so well you needed a map light

Actually, we were trying to figure out why the TomTom thought it was
driving through a cornfield.

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"K" wrote:

If you have your phone with you, then in effect your car is partially
bluetooth enabled. Does it let you use car radio for the spoken
instrtuctions?

Careful. Increasingly using phones and GPS units is not allowed while
driving. You will need a navigator.
I use maps from Google Maps.