By M. Laytos
As a person who does a lot of driving for my job a GPS was a must. I’ve been through many GPS’s from Tom Tom (One, 720, 920), Garmin (360, 760, 765T), and one or two other brands.
I decided to upgrade my Garmin 760 and my first choice was the 765T. Man, what a let down! It seemed slower at everything my 760 had done and was not worth the upgrade. When I purchased the 765T they had all the Navigon devices there. I wasn’t going to pay $[...] for a GPS (plus the states cut) so I looked at the Navigon 7200T. It was on sale for $[...] and also had a $[...] rebate for a total cost of $[...]. I had seen the device on the net and was familiar with Navigon from what I read but never owned one of their products. So now my dilemma became buy the $[...] garmin 765T or the $249 Navigon 7200T……….
Well I think I did what a lot of people do. I looked at the price of the Navigon and said to myself “There is no way this device can be good as the Garmin”. MAN WAS I WRONG! Like I said, the Garmin 765T was brutal.
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By M. J. Holland
After much research (and after upgrading from the 7200T because the sale price made it hard to pass up!) I am thoroughly pleased with the 8100T. As mentioned, I did EXTENSIVE research, and was originally going to purchase the Garmin 765, which is also a great unit. By feature list, here’s why I opted for the 8100T:
Largest screen available: I had an in-dash unit in my previous car, and I wanted something large and easy to see. 4.8″ really does give you more viewing real estate!
Feature set: with voice address entry (which, once rained in the environment it will be used has worked flawlessly!), Exit guide (see what’s ahead and get there with a screen touch) and the 3D Terrain View, not offered by any competitor, the choice was obvious!
Lifetime Real Traffic: I need traffic that works, not some dumbed-down ad-based version. this has worked like a champ and the option to auto-reroute or manually ask to recalc. is a great feature!
Inexpensive Map Updates: at $79 retail (even less on Amazon!) you get 3 years, 3 YEARS of map updates (up to 1 per quarter!) including POI’s! That’s a fraction of the next competitor!
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