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Old 05-07-2008, 05:54 PM
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Re: GPS installation - WHY is it so difficult?

iguidance was ok... tomtom worked better IMO.... Garmin worked flawlessly out of the box.. when I used iguidance.. I never got it to speak the street names.. so I ditched it in prefereance to either garmin or tomtom.. (garmin has the awsome find the food feature searchign for restarunants and so on) hopefully with newer renditions of pdagps software they will accually send the proper commands to the gps chip and prime the chip like the garmin does... but... as nickles says.. gps software is really a mater of prefereance.. and what features are important to you.. and what you like... garmin will install only the maps you need.. tomtop needs to have all the maps.. or entire mapsets.... I dont rember if iguidance needed the entire mapset as well or not.. all of tem require hefyt space on your sd card... tomtom needs 1gb... garmin can use as little as 200mb dependant on the maps in stalled (reminicence of mappoppolious) so far.. all have voice directions.. but I havent found one that will speak the street names yet...
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