Makes sense. Something that can tell you audibly that the next turn is coming up seems most useful, then, for driving alone, if you buy such a device at all.
Android phones use Google Maps (what else), and their speech module tells you when next to turn--though their GPS is sometimes imprecise. They'll say the correct street name and direction, in other words, but you may be a block away. Then again, you don't need to remember to remove/hide an extra thing if it's your phone, assuming that you don't have a regular problem remembering to pick up your phone from the passenger seat or whatever.
A 6" model sounds like it'd have a very readable map, which is a plus if you're figuring out the turns yourself. In some areas, both GPS and phone will refuse to tell you where to turn, and you do need to be able to do it yourself from the map. When darkforge's sister turned forty, she had a movable winetasting party, and we left the lands that the car's system knew (good thing I like maps).
Good luck deciding--it seems an issue of which features one needs most/least.
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Date: 2012-05-19 05:19 am (UTC)Android phones use Google Maps (what else), and their speech module tells you when next to turn--though their GPS is sometimes imprecise. They'll say the correct street name and direction, in other words, but you may be a block away. Then again, you don't need to remember to remove/hide an extra thing if it's your phone, assuming that you don't have a regular problem remembering to pick up your phone from the passenger seat or whatever.
A 6" model sounds like it'd have a very readable map, which is a plus if you're figuring out the turns yourself. In some areas, both GPS and phone will refuse to tell you where to turn, and you do need to be able to do it yourself from the map. When darkforge's sister turned forty, she had a movable winetasting party, and we left the lands that the car's system knew (good thing I like maps).
Good luck deciding--it seems an issue of which features one needs most/least.