[TR] GPS Navigator

[terryrs at comcast.net]

Embarrassingly revealing question here:  

Can you read the screen while you're driving ...ahem... without putting you your reading glasses?

Terry Smith
New Hampshire

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From: "Bob Danielson" <75TR6 at tr6.danielsonfamily.org> 

> For Father's Day, my wife got me the Garmin Nuvi 350 which sells for $199 at 
> Amazon with free shipping. She read every portable GPS review she could find 
> including good old Consumer Reports. Whether you love or hate Consumer 
> Reports, they're doing GPS units on a regular basis now and they do a good 
> job of explaining features so you can decide what you need. For her it came 
> down to Garmin or TomTom and Garmin won based on the Amazon delivered price. 
> 
> We have built-in navigation in both of our "other" cars so I was interested 
> to see how the portable unit would compare. It's scary good. Maps on the 
> 3.5" widescreen are clear and easily readable, satellite acquisition is very 
> fast, voice directions are loud enough and the re-routing function is very 
> fast. One feature I love is the screen that shows you: current speed, 
> overall avg speed, moving avg speed, maximum speed, total trip time, moving 
> time, stopped time, trip distance covered and trip distance remaining. So 
> you can go between that screen and the actual map screen while your 
> traveling. 
> 
> Bob Danielson 
> 1975 TR6 CF38503U 
> Running w/ Throttle Body Injection 
> Toyota 5 Speed & Nissan LSD 
> http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org 
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