What is a good, cheap portable GPS Unit I can use in my car.

I have $200.00 to spend. I need a reliable GPS unit for my car. A unit that I can take in and out of my 2007 Toyota Corolla.

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Hard to go wrong with a Garmin of TomTom, here's one in your budget: http://www.comparemaster.com/produc...t=ppc&crsource=pricegrabber&crkw=010-00656-10

 

Good info Techguy (Mike)......also......mschechter edit your post, take out your e-mail address, unless you want a bunch of spam in your in box. There are "spam-bots" roaming forums like this.

Or if one of the "Mod" sees mschechter post here, could you notify mschechter ?

 

I have the TomTom Go 720, and it beats the pants of my previous Garmin unit. It's lightning quick to pick up the location when turned on, and has been very accurate in navigation. I don't know about the TomTom 1, but the Go 720 has text to speech if you use the computer voices, not if you use the custom ones, I have to believe the One is the same. OTOH, I was pretty happy with the Garmin as well, it did the job. All of them will have their idiosyncrasies.

I like the TomTom feature of on-line map corrections, my Garmin did nothing but update the firmware on-line.

 

If you connect it to the computer before a big trip, it downloads the positions of the GPS satellites and greatly speeds the acquisition of the signal. My TomTom is pretty quick to acquire the satellites if it's been inactive for a few weeks, but it's lightning quick if I've just updated the positions of the satellites in the last couple of days.