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Old 03-17-2008, 02:22 PM
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Re: Vote for Best GPS Software (more complete poll)

I tried Tom Tom and iGuidance and went with iGuidance. The biggest difference for me was that Tom Tom didn't say the street names out loud, and I found iGuidance doing that was a huge improvement. I had someone tell me that the latest version of Tom Tom does do street names, but I haven't seen that verified.

However I use it with a Bluetooth GPS receiver even after the ROM update. The internal GPS is slower to update than the BT GPS so when I tried it I missed turns where it didn't give the next direction quick enough if you're doing a lot of quicker turns.

I still use both Live Search and Google Maps for looking up things however, they are both much more up to date for finding businesses. I'll generally use one or the other to find the address for something, and then plug that address into iGuidance.

One thing that I don't like is that you do have to pay for map updates. I've only been using it for about six months and I haven't updated the maps yet, but I don't like the idea of paying $80 for new maps in the future when the software itself was $110.
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