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Love the hands free calling feature as well. Very easy to operate. Great value. Bought this for my daughter and she loves it. Easy to use and gets her where she is going very easily.
I've checked out other brands, but I like this one the best. This is the second Garmin that I have owned. I like this one better that the first.
I recommend this product for I just bought one for myself and my son for Christmas. I recently went to Florida and rented one of these for the week. Excellent choose, very easy to use and program.
listings too. love the bus. I love my GPS It's great. the bluetooth works great better then using the speaker on my phone.
I knew I wanted the GPS loaded with maps of both the USA and Canada, some systems don't come with maps of Canada unless you purchase them. The screen size is 3.5 in which is right for me. It has Blue tooth functionality. As for additional features like MP3 and picture viewer, thought it would be neat, but not essential. Now where I live there is no MSN coverage, but when I went to Las Vegas I had coverage and down in the southern part of Maine there is coverage. The next feature I wanted was turn by turn with text to speech as I liked the idea of hearing the street names as I approached them.
I would recommend this GPS as very good. This is my first GPS so I did lots of research on the web to figure out which was the best one for me. The first step was to decide how much I wanted to pay which was no more then $200. The price at the time I purchased the c580 was only a few dollars more.
Otherwise I could find no real difference. The difference was that the c580 had MSN Direct services free which gives you local gas prices, real time traffic and movie times free for a year. I have really liked the GPS as I have found it extremely accurate. My only recommendation before you buy a GPS is to do your research and read the reviews of the folks who purchased it to get a good general sense of the product.
The display and voice are very clear. I began my research at CNET, Amazon, Best Buy and Circuit City plus a few other sites on the net I can't remember now. The MP3 player works well, but because of the size of speakers, not really that great to listen to music. The second step was to decide on features.
I have no plans to extend my membership once it expires. I came down to the choice between the Garmin c580 and Garmin c550. I also wanted a GPS that was rated as very accurate and fast. I read their reviews and also the reviews of the folks who actually bought the devices.
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