Stress Free Journey? Take a Look at a Garmin Nuvi 285W/285WT

It really seemed far-fetched to me when I discovered that for just one hundred and twenty nine dollars you can purchase yourself a brand-new Garmin Nuvi 285W/285WT. The features that this doohickey comes equipped with make it seem like it should cost much more. We can't go through each and every one in this report, but we can without fail go through the ones which excited me the most.

First and foremost you will respect the navigation feature of the Garmin Nuvi 285W/285WT. The Garmin Nuvi has approx 10 million preloaded map points to pick from for simple navigation. I know you may be thinking that this is just the run of the mill feature on all GPS gizmos in your car but this one is a bit different. The Garmin Nuvi 285W/285WT will speak the real names of the roads as you go along to get you successfully to the desired location. It is a text to speech feature that has proven to be extremely impressive.

The photo navigation feature of the Garmin Nuvi is another feature that'll make you grin like a kid on Christmas Day. There are six million installed points of interest from which you can just choose an image and you will be guided straight to your destination.

The beauty of the Garmin Nuvi 285WT is that it is not limited to just your car. The only thing that you will be missing as you walk with it in your hand is that you will not be able to charge its Lithium-ion battery as the car does when you install it on its dock. For instance you can make your travel plans, locations and schedule on your laptop and then wirelessly transfer them to your Garmin Nuvi 285WT. You can research the traffic status of whichever city you intend to go to and even plan on how much money you will have to budget on gas to get there. You can even check the latest news headlines with the free nine month trial subscription to MSN Direct.

One more feature that a lot of you will also appreciate is the Bluetooth technology. The Garmin Nuvi comes with a microphone and speaker so that you will be able to make and receive phone calls. With the aid of the touch screen, you can appreciate how simple this is in the car as you navigate via a photo of the White House!

In summary - the main features:

Voice Prompting
Bluetooth technology
6 million preloaded points of interest
Photo navigation
Touch screen (4.3 inches)
Programmable plus preloaded warnings for safety zones

I would certainly recommend Garmin Nuvi 285W/285WT - you just can't get a better specified GPS navigator of this build quality and speed for the same price.

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Large Screen Garmin Nuvi 5000 GPS Navigator - Top Reasons to Buy a GPS

With a 5.2" screen which is considered the largest in the portable GPS category as compared to the 4.3" or the 3.5" models, the Garmin nuvi 5000 GPS navigator is a bit expensive on the pocket with a price tag of $600+. But then it's targeted and designed for RV and truckers to give them easy to handle features and big clear display without causing much distraction.

The screen gives an extended view of the surroundings and is sun readable. A video input port is provided to connect your rear view camera for safe backups and parking. One can view the speed limits for highways and keep a log with a breadcrumb trail for 10,000 points. It has a FM transmitter and carries a whole lot of entertainment features for on the road fun. You can listen to MP3 music, audio books or view photos.

There are no internal batteries or provision for inserting some, which makes it an in the vehicle GPS navigator. Therefore you can't take it out to just use it outside your vehicle or with you for navigating on the foot. The Garmin nuvi 5000 is a good GPS for drivers specially for those who spend most of the time on road navigating their RVs and trucks. It strikes the right balance between useful features and on road entertainment. Speaking of entertainment, you can download and install alternative funny GPS voices and have more fun throughout your journey.

Top Reasons for buying a GPS

Why should you buy a GPS? Just because everone has been telling you to or do you your really need it? Find out for yourself by checking these cool points.

1. Show you incoming turns and alert you about them.
2. They can help you find your way if you get lost.
3. They can tell the speed of your car which you can point to as a record.
4. You can send or receive messages from other users of GPS units in your vicinity.
5. You can find emergency services nearby your location.
6. Great companion for camping out or hiking.
7. You can set your own waypoints for future references,
8. You can use portable ones to find your direction on foot as a compass.
9. Through bluetooth connect to your mobile phone for hands free operation.
10. Estimate the arrival time.
11. Use it to calculate the distance between two places.
12. You can avoid traffic jams with traffic updates.
13. View photos or Listen to music during traffic jams.
14. They can help you find your car in a busy or crowded parking lot.
15. If you feel hungry they can point to the best eating joints in town.
16. See speed traps before they catch you.
17. It's really cool to have a GPS device.
18. You can showoff to your friends who don't have a GPS unit yet.
19. They are fun to use.
20. You like our download-able funny alternative GPS voices too much to resist buying a GPS.

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Buy Garmin StreetPilot c340 or Buy TomTom One 3rd Edition - Which Portable GPS is the Best Value

So what brought us to the point of asking, "Do we buy the Garmin StreetPilot c340 or do we buy the TomTom One 3rd edition".

Maybe you too are in the market for a portable vehicle GPS system. We were looking for one in the under three hundred dollar range. This article tells a little of our story and how we went about narrowing our search down between these two units.

This past summer we had the opportunity to use a portable GPS on our trip to the coast. I was not especially impressed the first several hours of use as we were primarily traveling on Interstate roads, and those of which we were quite familiar. As we got closer to our vacation area, the Interstate stopped and we were forced to take two lane country roads the rest of the way to the beach. This was an area we had not specifically gone to before and had it just been me and our map, we would have been quite lost! Our GPS delivered us directly to our hotel, going so far as to tell us which side of the road it was on (that, I think I could have figured out).

Later in the week the "hook was set" when we decided to try out a new restaurant about one hour south of where we were staying. Not only did the GPS "find" our restaurant in its POI (points of interest) data base, but it routed us there, telling us how far it was and how long it would take to get there. I was quite skeptical of the time element, knowing the reputation for bumper to bumper tourist traffic, but our new GPS friend proved to be right and strategically routed us around the heavy traffic on some back roads we would never have taken on our own.

We returned from our trip and began the search for our own portable vehicle GPS systems to keep in our cars. These are the guidelines we used in our search.

• Size of unit -- Portability was important to us. The size, if too big can hinder you moving it from one car to another (or if too big, keep you from using it in a pedestrian situation)
• Does it allow you to choose between shortest routes, fastest route or toll free routes. Shortest is not always fastest if every other car is trying to use that road.
• Does it have text to speech capability, i.e., the audible voice actually speaks out the street names instead of "take next right". This is useful when streets are close together and keeps you from being confused or distracted from your driving. "Turn at Main Street" is preferable to "turn at the next right turn". It is also nice to be able to change the "voice" of the computer generated speaker/guide.
• Is the face plate readable and glare free--from different angles and in bright sun light, as well as at night time; can you adjust the brightness of the display at night.
• Does the unit have an internal rechargeable battery. Is there a car adapter for recharging as well as an AC plug to use inside your home.
• Preloaded map databases should be included. Most come with all of USA preloaded, but the degree of detail may vary from one model to another.
• Real time traffic reporting is a nice feature; unfortunately the current technology is dependent on the timeliness of local traffic reporting networks.
• Watch for included extra features such as bluetooth capability, MP3 player, FM transmitter, and iPod connections. You may want these, or you may want a less expensive unit without these.
• Check out the available mounting hardware -- look for this to come with the unit.

When trying to decide which GPS system to buy for our vehicles we found both of these units, the Garmin c340 and the TomTom One to be pretty similar in their features. The TomTom lacks text to speech capability, but also runs fifty to eighty dollars less than the Garmin. The TomTom has Home software so that you can update your unit database through your own computer. Both are touch screen driven and small enough to carry with you if walking around in an unfamiliar town.

We found that you can get great GPS units for under $300 that are basic, but more than adequate and very easy to use.

So which one did we choose? They are both great units but we do have a favorite. Also we recently noticed a great price on an older model of a Garmin unit.

Check out our web site http://buyportablegps.googlepages.com for more information including the results of our ranking and the "bonus Value GPS" that we came across.

Happy traveling! And maybe we will bump into you on our next adventure to a place previously unexplored by us -- made stress free by our new friend-- our Portable Vehicle GPS system!

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