Very solid GPS with all the essential functions you would want besides voice recognition.

The GPS market has arrive a long way within the previous couple of years. A ten years in the past, there were very couple of after-market GPS units, they were mostly expensive, and they were also mostly mediocre. The best units cost more than a thousand, and whilst they’d get you from here to there, didn’t function a lot of bells and whistles. Factory set up GPS units–then restricted mostly to higher finish cars–generally cost $2-3k.

A growing number of portable GPS units have arrive to market within the previous 5 or so years. With time, the hardware has improved, the software has (for the best types) gotten fairly good, and costs have (especially within the previous yr or so) dropped tremendously. (That final point–the great drop in price–has forced many producers out in the market. At this time, it is mostly dominated by names like TomTom, Magellan, and Garmin). There’s also now competition from higher finish smart phones, the majority of which possess a GPS unit constructed in.

(Amazingly–or maybe not–the cost of factory set up automobile GPS systems has stubbornly remained around $2,000!)

Whilst there was significant brand name attrition within the GPS market, there is no shortage of choices. That is because every producer now provides an nearly ridiculous number of models, many of which are only modestly various.