If you’ve recently purchased a new or used car from your local Toyota dealer, one of the best ways to get more enjoyment out of it is to add a GPS device. But with so many on the market, how do you choose the best one? According to the reviewers at CNet.com, these are the five best GPS devices available today.
Garmin Nuvi 880
Although expensive, the Garmin Nuvi 880 has a number of features that make driving much easier. Text-to-speech, Bluetooth and MSN Direct services are ideal for looking up streets and traffic conditions along your route. It also has some of the best speech recognition capabilities of all the devices on the market.
HP iPaq rx5900 Travel Companion
This particular GPS device is ideal for traveling. It has a number of travel tools and it’s also equipped with Bluetooth and wireless capabilities in a sleek device.
Magellan Maestro 4250
You can operate this device simply by speaking, making it safe for driving. It also has text-to-speech capabilities with Bluetooth technology and traffic monitoring devices.
Mio C520
The sleek design for this GPS device also offers a large touch-screen for easy navigation. For even easier use, it has text-to-speech functionality and multimedia capabilities. For all of the features that it offers, it is one of the more affordable options on the market today.
TomTom GO 930
With this sophisticated device, you can simply speak an address and it will give directions. In addition, it offers 3D graphics of intersections for extra safety. A wide-screen also makes this particular device easy to use.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:40 am
Which GPS System? has personally tested and evaluated all of the leading GPS systems so to give you an easy and simple recommendation of which ones you should choose.
The nüvi 880 is one of Which GPS System?’s top picks with the following review:
The good: The Garmin Nuvi 880 crams in a number of features, including text-to-speech functionality, MSN Direct services, and Bluetooth, into a compact design. The portable navigation system offers the best and most accurate speech recognition capabilities we’ve seen to date.
The bad: The Nuvi 880 is expensive, and route calculations can be sluggish.
The bottom line: As we’ve come to expect from the Nuvi line, the Garmin Nuvi 880 offers an impressive feature list and solid performance, but it’s the accurate speech recognition that really pushes the Nuvi 880 over the edge and makes it one of the best GPS we’ve tested to date.
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