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I too am a big fan of Tom Tom ... picked up a 630S on "Black Friday" last
year.  I was looking for the spoken street names and such, and I must say I
was a more than a bit disappointed with the mispronunciations of even common
names.  I was talking to my BiL, who has the Sprint Hero (HTC H/W running
Android S/W), he had similar complaints.  

Last year I wanted to get my mother a GPS for Christmas.  She still does a
lot of driving on her own, and I thought it would be good for her to have
something that could help if she happened to get lost or want to go
somewhere unfamiliar.  Last year I got a Sony NavMan U (I think) with speech
synthesis ... which I got for less than $100.  Now that I've heard the Tom
Tom I wish I had bought myself another NavMan!  I tested it out before
giving it to her; I found that it did a pretty good job of quickly finding a
route, and the spoken street names were very good.  If you happen to choose
a different route it would recomputed quickly.  I don't remember seeing the
Sony units recently, but if you do happen to find one give it a shot.  

Steve Buchholz

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I like the TomTom interface. It may not be the most sophisticated, nor the
most customizable, but it's ready to go out of the box.  This is nice when
you don't use it on a regular basis.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:

> I agree with the cell phone thing for certain cases, and the XMotion
> Drive app for iPhone is exceptional. The caveat is if you get a call
> (even if you don't answer) near a turn you may miss a beat.
>
> That said, I belive Bob to be looking for something with a larger
> screen. I've been looking a bit too and believe I would buy the most
> expensive TomTom I could afford at the time.
>
> -Cody (mobile)
>
> On Jan 12, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at jafo.ca> wrote:
>
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> > On 01/12/2010 04:48 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
> >> What do you like and can recommend?
> >
> > Just use your cellphone.  :-)
> >
> > A few months ago I got one of those Verizon/Motorola Droid phones
> > with the
> > turn by turn navigation.  There's good justification behind why
> > Garmin and
> > TomTom's stock dropped significantly on the day they announced the
> > new cell
> > phone would have navigation.
> >
> > So, you've got the Droid for Verizon, and they now have that Nexus One
> > phone for T-Mobile and I believe you can use it with any GSM carrier
> > like
> > AT&T.
> >
> > I've been very happy with my Android-based phones, and in particular
> > the
> > Droid.
> >
> > For example.  I hadn't been to one of my friend's houses in years,
> > but I
> > had a set of hard drives to drop off to him.  He called me and gave
> > me the
> > address.  I hung up and clicked the "voice" button and said
> > "Navigate to
> > <his address>".  "Turn right at Whatever Street" my phone said.  It
> > guided
> > me there and then when I was about a block away it brought up A
> > PICTURE OF
> > HIS HOUSE.
> >
> > And I always have it with me, no matter the car, because it's built
> > into my
> > phone.
> >
> > Anyway, that's my suggestion.
> >
> > There is a nice windshield mount, but I haven't tried it.  On the
> > 2005.0
> > S4 I pull out that "credit card holder" and put it in there.  It works
> > pretty well.  There's my Audi content.
> >
> > Sean