Rate Your GPS

[drJ]

Rate your gps on the following criteria:
Brand & model:
Cost:
Color/ B&W:
What you like:
Display quality:
What you dislike:
Downloadable maps: Yes/No
Can you create customized routes?

[marc]

This belongs in GPS Info... so that's where it now lives

[maduko]

Brand & model: Zumo 660
Cost: used $600
Color/ B&W: color
What you like: waterproof, media player, bluetooth, saving routes and waypoints after a trip
Display quality: great
What you dislike: bluetooth audio quality w/phone sucks, but it's fine in my helmet; power button sticks sometimes
Downloadable maps: Yes
Can you create customized routes? Yes

I mounted mine on a Touratech lockable mount which is attached to the factory GS accessory bar. Makes it easy to see and reach.

[TomDac]

Rate your gps on the following criteria:
Brand & model: Garmin Nuvi 550
Cost: $250
Color/ B&W: Color
What you like: small size. Waterproof. Price was good.
Display quality: OK
What you dislike: no QWERTY keyboard option. snapping it into the RAM cradle I bought with it cannot be done with the power cord attached.. Grrr. so that means trying to blindly get the mini-usb plugged in or swiveling the mount to see where that little f_cker is.
Downloadable maps: Yes
Can you create customized routes? Yes

So far, I'm happy with this unit..

[adl]

I'm thinking of the 550 as my next gps unit, it looks like the best combination of cost/features.

[mikec]

Brand & model: zumo 665
Cost: $880 (GPS Discount) I got mine free with American Express Points
Color/ B&W: Color
What you like: Active weather radar
Display quality: Excellent
What you dislike: ?
Downloadable maps: Yes
Can you create customized routes?: Yes



Mike

[NeelsK]

Brand & model:Zumo 665
Cost:USD800
Color/ B&W:Color
What you like:Big screen, easy touch with gloves. Bluetooth
Display quality:Great
What you dislike:No Birdseye Imagery
Downloadable maps: Yes
Can you create customized routes? Yes


Brand & model:Oregon 550t
Cost:Cant remember
Color/ B&W:Color
What you like:Birdseye Imagery
Display quality:So so. Difficult in direct sunlight
What you dislike:No Bluetooth
Downloadable maps: Yes
Can you create customized routes? Yes

Use the 550t for offroad and 665 for onroad

[Soapkng]

Brand & model: Garmin Zumo 660
Cost: $650
Color/ B&W: color
What you like: Main display details (i.e. - altitude, ETA, dist. to turn, etc.). Also love the logs it records automatically...you can see trip time, altitude profile of the whole trip, etc.
Display quality: Good
What you dislike: Slow when you want to move map around..it 'redraws' over itself...very strange. Also not good at displaying street names...that sucks. And, when a call comes in (have bluetooth headset) the display always shows the wrong 'who's calling' (seems to be the same place calling each time and is definitely wrong).
Downloadable maps: Yes
Can you create customized routes? Yes, but have not used this feature

[gdayjr]

Why do you guys pay so much for a GPS.
I bought a used tom tom one xl, & a cheap ram mount on ebay, all for about $60 Australian.

$800
$600

Are you all crazy?.

[marc]

Originally Posted by gdayjr

Are you all crazy?.

Must be. We own BMWs, too.