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Five Things to Consider Before Buying a GPS System {Switched.com}
Jul 30th 2008 2:18PM I have been in the mobile electronics industry for over 5 years. If you are looking to purchase a product that is quality and that will actually get you when you want to go, I would recommend only the Garmin navigation for the portable GPS units, for the fact of the ease of use for users. By which I mean the "search all" option. Other GPS' require either the city name or zip code. Garmin does not. Garmin only requires the State name. I live in Baltimore County, not Baltimore City, MD. And we consider everything in the County or City "Baltimore". The units themselves will not find the address you are looking for with an improper city name. Garmin saved you that step of having to know every piece of information. As long as you know a street number and name it will find it. As far as in-dash navigation they are all fairly good. I would prefer the Kenwood Navigation just because they paired up with Garmin for there navigation software. But for the most pair the units are designed better than the portable units. And they give you more features that you may want or use. Such as HD Radio, Satellite Radio(XM or Sirius), Bluetooth, Real-Time Traffic Updates, Ipod Connectivity, USB Input, Extreme Control over the sound of your system with a very detailed graphic equalizer, SD Card Reader, HDD(Hard Disk Drive) Navigation(Where you can store music on the unit itself and the maps are not on a DVD Map Disc), Rear Camera Input(to view what is behind you before backing up(for larger SUV's)), DVD Player, MP3, AAC, WMA, The RDS feature where it will show artist name and song title information from your local radio stations.
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