06-29-2011, 05:30 PM
The iPhone is a good stopgap GPS for occasional use (if you have a windshield mount and car charger for it). However, it is much better to have a cheap garmin nuvi if you use GPS all the time. Reasons: larger screen, louder voice, bigger buttons, higher precision GPS receiver.
Pretty much every review I've seen rates the low end garmins as the best. I had a 255w (until it was stolen). Also note that high quality add-in maps for foreign countries seem to be more universally available for the garmin than for other brands. When we went to Costa Rica, garmin was the ONLY GPS for which you could buy an accurate map.
Pretty much every review I've seen rates the low end garmins as the best. I had a 255w (until it was stolen). Also note that high quality add-in maps for foreign countries seem to be more universally available for the garmin than for other brands. When we went to Costa Rica, garmin was the ONLY GPS for which you could buy an accurate map.