Re: GPS
- From: Scott Gardner <gardners14@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:34:22 -0500
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 02:02:12 GMT, "Solo Rider" <none@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Thumper" <roadapple@(nospam)bigfoot.com> wrote in message
>news:jyLkf.1270$Of1.973@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> After being hopelessly lost in Palo Alto. I decided to buy a portable GPS
>> unit. One that I could use in my cars and on my bikes, with different
>> mounts.
>>
>> I was looking at a Garmin 2620 and C330. Now I see on their website that
>> they have a new model, the 2720, which is voice activated.
>>
>> What do I need a voice activated GPS for when I won't be able to hear it
>> nor, due to wind noise, will it be able to hear me?
>>
>> I also looked at a TomTom today.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>> Thanks
>
>Garmin 276C. Better screen and several mounting options. Use it in my
>cages, bikes and boat. The 376 adds XM radio if you are into that...
>
I have the 276C as well. With the long battery life, I can use it on
my bike with a RAM mount and don't have to worry about running power
cables for it. I put the permanent adhesive mount in my car, and use
the bean-bag mount if we take it in my wife's car or the truck.
True, it would be nice to have one of the hard-drive based units and
not worry about loading maps, but with a 256MB card, I can load the
maps for the entire country west of Denver, Colorado on one card,
including auto-routing information so the GPS can calculate routes
on-the-fly without a computer. Even on the more-dense East Coast, I
can load a 300-mile wide swath from Virginia up to Canada on one card.
But what really sold me on it was the screen. I has the same 3.8"
screen size as a lot of the other units out there, but with a
resolution of 480 X 320 pixels, it has more than triple the pixels of
the 2620, double the pixels of the C330, and 40% more pixels than even
the new 2720. It really allows for a lot more information on the
screen, while still maintaining readability - think of it as
displaying your computer desktop at 1024 * 768 instead of 640 * 480.
The 276C doesn't have satellite weather updates, traffic alerts, or
satellite radio, but if you don't need those, it's a great unit.
--
Scott Gardner
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