My latest acquisition

[filburt1]

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...1&loc=101&sp=1

Should come on Wednesday or so (2-day shipping but I ordered it just before midnight on Friday). I will never be lost again

[ajaspers]

Cool

[assassingod]

Sweet, my dad had a GPS for when he was a pilot (He also used in when we went hiking :ermm: )

[FWF]

wow thats a good price aswell....looks like i might have to look into buying one

[Chris M]

Originally Posted by FWF

wow thats a good price aswell....looks like i might have to look into buying one

There is no point

The TomTom GPS unit for use with a PDA with bluetooth is much better

Satan

[filburt1]

Originally Posted by hellsatan

There is no point

The TomTom GPS unit for use with a PDA with bluetooth is much better

Satan

I just drove around with it and it was awful:

1. My house, albeit 3.5 years old, is not on the Maryland map. It's on Mapquest and pretty much every other map I've used. UPS and FedEx know where it is.

2. Every time I make a turn, it initially says that I'm off-route until coming out of its stupor and realizing that I made the turn correctly.

3. When indicating to get on highway exits, it doesn't say on the screen or verbally to get on N/S/E/W, or moreover, "turn now" or something, which is pretty pointless. Even an exit number would be fine.

3. It takes forever for it to lock onto the road; often I'm shown as several hundred feet to the side of the road, which is interesting.

4. The maps are poorly labeled; on an intersection of two highways near me, the number of one of the highways was dumped right on the intersection of the two, making it completely useless to label (being ambigious).

5. The software is incredibly unintuitive, offering no one screen or wizard to simply enter in two addresses and find the route between. Get a clue, Pharos!

6. An unfortunately slicing in the maps made it such that have to load two of them (north and south Maryland) for many routes. I only have 32 MB of RAM in the PDA and both maps take up about 25 MB so I can't install much else.


Anyway, I'm returning it to Buy.com. My first experience with them was good (except for the product) so lets see how the return works.

(I also got a 500VA UPS system today but that's not important )

[filburt1]

Originally Posted by filburt1

I just drove around with it and it was awful:

1. My house, albeit 3.5 years old, is not on the Maryland map. It's on Mapquest and pretty much every other map I've used. UPS and FedEx know where it is.

2. Every time I make a turn, it initially says that I'm off-route until coming out of its stupor and realizing that I made the turn correctly.

3. When indicating to get on highway exits, it doesn't say on the screen or verbally to get on N/S/E/W, or moreover, "turn now" or something, which is pretty pointless. Even an exit number would be fine.

3. It takes forever for it to lock onto the road; often I'm shown as several hundred feet to the side of the road, which is interesting.

4. The maps are poorly labeled; on an intersection of two highways near me, the number of one of the highways was dumped right on the intersection of the two, making it completely useless to label (being ambigious).

5. The software is incredibly unintuitive, offering no one screen or wizard to simply enter in two addresses and find the route between. Get a clue, Pharos!

6. An unfortunately slicing in the maps made it such that have to load two of them (north and south Maryland) for many routes. I only have 32 MB of RAM in the PDA and both maps take up about 25 MB so I can't install much else.


Anyway, I'm returning it to Buy.com. My first experience with them was good (except for the product) so lets see how the return works.

(I also got a 500VA UPS system today but that's not important )

Just came back from the UPS store...now we see how good Buy.com is. I hope they do well because they often have some excellent prices.

[Velocd]

Wish they had a watch-size GPS version of some sort. I could use it for my long morning runs around this large and unfamilar college town I'm living at. :ermm:

Where is that James Bond tech store when you need it.