Top 10 Best Navigation Systems 2022 Pick By Experts

For somebody that been using TomTom for the last 10 years, what a DISAPPOINTMENT. CAN’T BELIEVE that that’s the best TomTom that the TomTom company can come up with. Not only that it’s AWFUL GPS, and the SLOWEST EVER MADE, they even took features out from my beloved GO 930 the best GPS ever made, that I’m still using to this day !!! Unfortunately, Doesn’t have the traffic on it. The TomTom company should’ve never left the TOMTOM HOME system and moved to the MY DRIVE system, which is basically a stolen idea from Google Maps and Google WAZE, which is very confusing system, since all those UPSes shows you is discthat you have to follow, but the problem is it doesn’t show you the roads next to it, so you will know, especially when you come into a split of roads on the highway, and you have a split second to make a decision because of the traffic behind you and, you’re having trouble to decide WHICH ONE TO CHOOSE. (Instead of showing JUST ONE ROAD that the GPS makers think, VERY WRONGLY, That You Understand. The TomTom home was the SIMPLEST AND THE MOST CLEAR AND UNDERSTOOD system EVER MADE to this day. They would’ve had the Best GPS Ever Made if they just added the “GOODIES” that they have on this one to the GO 930, but the problem with tech companies like that is that they only listen to themselves, not asking customers that ACTUALLY BUY AND USE THEIR PRODUCTS AND NAVIGATE 50 times more than them, as a driver of Uber lift, and a Yellow Cab Driver for over 12 years here in New York, that navigates 50 times more than anybody out there including truck drivers, that I actually was for 10 years, because OBVIOUSLY we’re the one that KNOW BEST WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE to the FUTURE NEXT GPS, because I navigates at least 50 times a day weather with customer or by myself.1Just clicking on it you have to be VERY PRECISE to just get the GPS to function. 2. It takes the GPS FOREVER to REACT to what you are telling him to do. 3. It doesn’t even KEEP THE CITIES that your driving or the last street address that he used for more than 24 hours, it keeps ERASING the MEMORY, which SLOWS DOWN putting the address, and again the features that they already had on the old tomtoms BEFORE, they just TOOK IT OUT, which is RIDICULOUS, what a waste of time. 4. When you have a lot of favorites places on the GPS, with the old tomtoms all you had to do is click on the letter like J for JFK airport, and find it immediately, now, with this one, again, THEY JUST TOOK IT OUT, if you can believe it. 5. The quick address finder features that they have is USELESS, because it will show you all the states in the United States for example for this address if you’re looking for, so as a taxi driver that been using it for a while now, you should just put the city in the United States that you are driving at and make the GPS CONCENTRATE on that city ALONE, so you can put the address Way Faster and Not Waste Time,,, surprisingly, even when I put the city of New York which is New York City, it still shows me streets in Brooklyn, which is again a waste of time and very stupid, because I didn’t ask for a Street in Brooklyn, I asked for a Street in New York New York. 6. The GPS is so slow, that most of the time I just use Google on my phone which is WAY FASTER, and which have much more PRACTICAL KEYBOARD that INCLUDES THE NUMBERS AND THE LETTERS on ONE KEYBOARD, which is GENIUS, and is THE ONLY GPS that has an EXPLANATION whether to stay on the SERVICE ROAD or on the MAIN ROAD., When you are driving on a BIG BOULEVARD which happens a lot, so the TomTom company obviously DOESN’T EVEN BOTHER LOOKING AT THE COMPETITION to learn from and to learn NEW THINGS about what to do. As a driver for Lyft and Uber for over a year now, as anybody that is driving for the App companies knows, in the Drivers App the navigation option in the settings IS ONLY for Google Maps or WAZE, so that should definitely raise a Red Flag to the TomTom company !!!The only good things about this GPS is that surprisingly, in Difficult Traffic Situation, since I think, it uses its own satellites, it has better ideas about what to do (from my experience), to overcome traffic situation, Not Always, but Most of the Time then Google, because it seems like the TomTom is UPDATING itself Way Faster Than Google, and it is a Portable Device, so as far as I know, there is more space to put a bigger antenna or whatever it is inside so it would gather more information about what’s going on. Unbelievable !!!!!!! $200 GPS – really? I wouldn’t even pay $100 for this GPS. I am a loyal customer to TomTom so I do have it with me but, as I said before I only use it for Difficult Traffic situation, if I don’t like the recommendation of Google, so most of the time I don’t touch it and is just collecting dust, and if the traffic conditions are good, I still used to this day my beloved best GPS ever made the GO 930, which very disappointedly, it looks like they stop updating those old tom-toms, which is very sad, but I still think that I will continue to use, because they are superfast to put an address, and they do the job, except I only trust Google for the destination, because it’s more accurate and reliable, but for the navigation itself I still do use my beloved GO 930 regardless.NOT RECOMMENDED. Hopefully, the TomTom company will READ this review and IMPROVE The Next One FOCUSING on ALL THE POINTS THAT I MADE.

I was very excited when Garmin announced this product, including such features as 3D maps, speed warnings, and rerouting due to traffic, among many new bells and whistles. Unfortunately, the 3D maps are not yet available for my city (Calgary), and the other features are hit and miss.I had previously purchased the Go 600 from TomTom because it provided speed warnings. Specifically, I want to be sure I don’t accidentally speed in playground zones, which are unavoidable in my neighborhood. Unfortunately, neither product works as advertised. The speed limits for the playground zones are not included for my neighborhood. I tried informing TomTom about the missing playgrounds two years ago, but they still haven’t been added to the map. I recently tried to inform Garmin about the same thing, giving them very detailed information, but was told their map vendor doesn’t accept residential street updates.As for the maps, both devices have some errors, but I know enough about my city to generally ignore it when it happens. Sometimes I’m forced to turn around once or twice to figure out which road to take. The DriveSmart 55 doesn’t give enough information to get me through some of Calgary’s more complex exits. In particular, there is one exit on the right, which then immediately splits into two further exits that take you in opposite directions. The Go 600 guides you through it flawlessly (it repeats keep left about half a dozen times). The DriveSmart doesn’t tell me to exit on the right until it’s too late, and only tells me once to keep left after I’ve exited. If your radio is a little loud, you can easily miss it. You can increase the volume of the DriveSmart in one of the menus.A new feature about the DriveSmart that I like is that it warns about cameras at intersections, at least those that are known. Another nice feature of the DriveSmart is that it is a little more explicit when it comes to traffic lights. Specifically, rather than tell me to “turn right” like the Go 600 does, the DriveSmart tells me “turn right at the traffic light”. That can be very handy when there’s more than one possible turn.The DriveSmart also warns you if there is a speed limit change coming up ahead, so you get a heads up before the actual change. Sometimes the speed limit signs are easy to miss due to untrimmed trees or tall vehicles, so the heads up is handy. I should add that all warnings on both devices only warn you by beeping. Again, that’s easy to miss if the radio is on, and requires that you look away from the road and onto the device to know why it beeped. I had hoped that the DriveSmart, being a much newer device, would have at least had the option to have the device speak the warnings. I have yet to find a setting for that.Finally, a minor nuisance with the DriveSmart is that the suction cup on the window keeps falling off. That’s because I always pull the GPS off the window and put it away in my car’s storage compartment to avoid a break-in. By the time I get back to the car, the suction cup has usually fallen off. With the Go 600, the GPS simply lifts out of the cradle, and I can put it away. The Go 600 cradle has only fallen off a couple of times in the years that I’ve owned it, which you have to expect since the suction cups eventually lose suction and need to be reattached. The DriveSmart suction cup falls off every two or three times I pull the device off the suction cup.One other point of comparison is the size of the devices. I bought the GO 600 because I wanted a large screen (6″), but was barely able to squeeze it into the corner of my 2017 Honda Accord without it blocking too much of my view. The DriveSmart 55 unit is a 5.5″ display, but it’s almost edge to edge, so the device fits easily into the corner and is very easy to read while you’re driving.All in all, I’m disappointed with the DriveSmart considering that it’s three years newer than the Go 600. I continue to use the DriveSmart for now to see how well it works in other parts of my city, but I will probably sell it and resume using my GO 600. It’s unfortunate.EDIT: I bypassed Garmin and entered the edits directly on the vendor’s maps (at here.com). It remains to be seen if they’re accepted and if they propagate to Garmin. The vendor’s discussion boards are a ghost town, so I’m still waiting to find out how long it might take to get to Garmin.I’m giving the DriveSmart three stars for now. If the vendor does indeed not accept updates to residential streets, then I would give this two stars since the playground zone data is years out of date.

El dispositivo promete hacer muchas cosas, siempre y cuando tenga una conexión estable con el celular (para uso de datos) y los auriculares, mediante Bluetooth. El Rider 550 tiene fallas reportadas de Bluetooth con varios modelos de iPhone, y TomTom lo sabe desde hace tiempo pero no ha corregido estas fallas (se puede verificar buscando en Internet “fallas Bluetooth TomTom Rider 550”). Asimismo, hay algunos inconvenientes en la calidad del audio con los auriculares. En mi caso costó trabajo emparejar un iPhone SE y un Sena SMH5, aun cuando el soporte técnico de TomTom los reconoce como dispositivos compatibles. La solución fue no conectar el GPS ni el celular al wifi de la casa al momento de emparejarlos, es decir, el Rider 550 únicamente tiene conexión de datos a mi celular (con mi plan de datos actualizo mapas) y al momento de emparejarlos me aseguro de tener apagado el wifi de mi celular. Aún así en año y medio de uso, la conexión Bluetooth no es estable con el iPhone. No he probado con Android pero por lo reportado en foros es muy estable la conexión entre dispositivos.Sin el celular y los auriculares conectados el Tomtom pierde mucho atractivo, aunque sigue siendo un dispositivo muy bueno en cuanto a rapidez y capacidades. Es una lástima que tras más de aproximadamente dos años y medio o más de que salió al mercado este GPS, TomTom no haya corregido el problema y su soporte técnico sea tan deficiente, al menos en México es inexistente. Toma esto en cuenta para cosas de garantías.Definitivamente es un dispositivo que vale la pena comprarlo pero en oferta. Tiene muchas opciones para el trazo de rutas, avisos, etc. La ventaja de usar un aparato de estos en lugar de tu celular es que, entre otros beneficios, en caso de emergencia siempre tienes tu celular contigo y no en el manillar de la moto, pero si no sirve o sirve a medias el Bluetooth pierde atractivo.

Most folks by now have a favorite brand of GPS, and I’m no different. My favorite was the one in my 2011 Sonata Hybrid. But, this isn’t about a Hyundai product; it’s about a Garmin product…and Garmin is my second favorite GPS. Garmin has built itself a reputation and, depending on your experiences, it is either a good reputation or a bad one. For me it is a good one. I am accustomed to the display layout and the functions of the Garmin, so moving on to this model is not about learning everything all over again, but more about learning its updated features.I haven’t used the Alexa function yet and may not ever use it. I have an Echo for my vehicle and rarely use it since it requires access to my phone. Until wifi is available for vehicles separately from a smart phone, I will probably continue on without Alexa. Aside from the much larger screen on this unit compared to my previous one, the resolution is much improved. The jaggies are just about non-existent, making the display a real treat to see. This is on a par with the Sonata unit in terms of display clarity, although in most other areas it doesn’t quite measure up. One area in which the Garmin is light-years ahead of the Sonata model is allowing coordinates to be entered as destinations for times when you don’t know the address. Most GPS units allow this, but Hyundai elected not to. The unit has a nice selection of points of interest that are easy to search through, and they cover a broad spectrum of what is available (though no GPS has the resident memory to list everything). I have really come to appreciate the traffic alerts that Garmin includes for free with their units, alerts that have saved me time on numerous occasions. The lifetime map updates are also nice, though you won’t get them on a regular basis and there is no guarantee they are really up to date. I get warnings when I am approaching a school zone as well as warnings when I am above the posted speed limit. I know from past experience that it is possible to get warnings when approaching a traffic camera, too, though I have not had this Garmin long enough to notice if I get those warnings. I used to have to download camera locations from the ‘net and load them into my Garmin, so that may still be the case. I will research that. Garmin gives you free software to help you to maintain your GPS, something Hyundai didn’t do. I can install updated firmware if it becomes available and, of course, load any new maps that are available. You are free to tell this unit how to calculate a route: fastest time, shortest distance; you can even set up some custom avoidance areas for those times when conditions warrant it. The suction cup mount on this unit is an improvement over the one on my last Garmin, a nuvi 2599. That older suction cup lost its tackiness rather quickly and loses its grip on the winshield in less than a day on the highway. This new unit has a very nice suction cup that is keeping its tackiness and holding the unit onto the windshield tightly with no signs of coming loose. I have to admit, I was a huge fan of the sandbag mounts and used to use them exclusively. I don’t know if they are still available, but they were, in my estimation, the best mounts I could buy. Some states don’t (or at least didn’t) allow windshield mounts due to a fear that a collision could hurl the GPS back into someone’s face. I don’t know, but it seems to me that in a wreck you would have more important things to consider than a GPS; however, since those states prohibited windshield mounts, the sandbags became almost a necessity.Well, I have covered just about all of the features that I consider important. Saved places, various configuration items such as the icon that represents your vehicle, have not changed drastically and should all work pretty much as before. Calculating your arrival time during a route is still as useful as ever, although this is another area in which my Hyundai in-dash unit was better. The Hyundai calculated an arrival time when I began my journey and that time stayed nearly constant during the entire journey. Not so with the Garmin. It changes as you move on down the road…even if your speed doesn’t. The closer you are to the destination the more the arrival time changes. The only times the Hyundai unit arrival time varied was if I stopped for some reason or during traffic jams. This is not a deal-breaker as I have a very good idea of my arrival time without ever looking at the GPS. It’s just about differences in implementation. Oh, and for the record, the reason I refer to my Hyundai unit in the past tense is that the car was rear-ended and totaled last summer. I can recommend this Garmin based on my use of it; however, your decision must be based on your preference if the brand you like is producing good units. I don’t want to sway anyone into a purchase that might be regretted later on.

Most folks by now have a favorite brand of GPS, and I’m no different. My favorite was the one in my 2011 Sonata Hybrid. But, this isn’t about a Hyundai product; it’s about a Garmin product…and Garmin is my second favorite GPS. Garmin has built itself a reputation and, depending on your experiences, it is either a good reputation or a bad one. For me it is a good one. I am accustomed to the display layout and the functions of the Garmin, so moving on to this model is not about learning everything all over again, but more about learning its updated features.I haven’t used the Alexa function yet and may not ever use it. I have an Echo for my vehicle and rarely use it since it requires access to my phone. Until wifi is available for vehicles separately from a smart phone, I will probably continue on without Alexa. Aside from the much larger screen on this unit compared to my previous one, the resolution is much improved. The jaggies are just about non-existent, making the display a real treat to see. This is on a par with the Sonata unit in terms of display clarity, although in most other areas it doesn’t quite measure up. One area in which the Garmin is light-years ahead of the Sonata model is allowing coordinates to be entered as destinations for times when you don’t know the address. Most GPS units allow this, but Hyundai elected not to. The unit has a nice selection of points of interest that are easy to search through, and they cover a broad spectrum of what is available (though no GPS has the resident memory to list everything). I have really come to appreciate the traffic alerts that Garmin includes for free with their units, alerts that have saved me time on numerous occasions. The lifetime map updates are also nice, though you won’t get them on a regular basis and there is no guarantee they are really up to date. I get warnings when I am approaching a school zone as well as warnings when I am above the posted speed limit. I know from past experience that it is possible to get warnings when approaching a traffic camera, too, though I have not had this Garmin long enough to notice if I get those warnings. I used to have to download camera locations from the ‘net and load them into my Garmin, so that may still be the case. I will research that. Garmin gives you free software to help you to maintain your GPS, something Hyundai didn’t do. I can install updated firmware if it becomes available and, of course, load any new maps that are available. You are free to tell this unit how to calculate a route: fastest time, shortest distance; you can even set up some custom avoidance areas for those times when conditions warrant it. The suction cup mount on this unit is an improvement over the one on my last Garmin, a nuvi 2599. That older suction cup lost its tackiness rather quickly and loses its grip on the winshield in less than a day on the highway. This new unit has a very nice suction cup that is keeping its tackiness and holding the unit onto the windshield tightly with no signs of coming loose. I have to admit, I was a huge fan of the sandbag mounts and used to use them exclusively. I don’t know if they are still available, but they were, in my estimation, the best mounts I could buy. Some states don’t (or at least didn’t) allow windshield mounts due to a fear that a collision could hurl the GPS back into someone’s face. I don’t know, but it seems to me that in a wreck you would have more important things to consider than a GPS; however, since those states prohibited windshield mounts, the sandbags became almost a necessity.Well, I have covered just about all of the features that I consider important. Saved places, various configuration items such as the icon that represents your vehicle, have not changed drastically and should all work pretty much as before. Calculating your arrival time during a route is still as useful as ever, although this is another area in which my Hyundai in-dash unit was better. The Hyundai calculated an arrival time when I began my journey and that time stayed nearly constant during the entire journey. Not so with the Garmin. It changes as you move on down the road…even if your speed doesn’t. The closer you are to the destination the more the arrival time changes. The only times the Hyundai unit arrival time varied was if I stopped for some reason or during traffic jams. This is not a deal-breaker as I have a very good idea of my arrival time without ever looking at the GPS. It’s just about differences in implementation. Oh, and for the record, the reason I refer to my Hyundai unit in the past tense is that the car was rear-ended and totaled last summer. I can recommend this Garmin based on my use of it; however, your decision must be based on your preference if the brand you like is producing good units. I don’t want to sway anyone into a purchase that might be regretted later on.

I got this TomTom 550 Rider when I saw the price at about $330 in the USA because the comparable Garmin units are about $500. I have very mixed feelings about this unit so far (I’ve had it for about 1 month and haven’t been able to truly test all features).My intended use is as my motorcycle GPS. In particular for full day(+) rides. And these are rides where I want to control and plan out in meticulous detail the route to take. Or perhaps I’d be receiving the planned route files from a friend ahead of time and would need to be able to load the route on the TomTom. If I’m just going straight to some specific-but-unknown address near me, and the ride is

There are many reviewers complaining about certain features, so I want to provide tips about things people are having trouble with. Hopefully, you will have good luck like I did.To link a smartphone, you must precisely follow the sequence in the instructions. Do not assume you know how to link it just because you have connected other Bluetooth devices. It is more complicated because linking to the app is involved, and you will also end up with two Bluetooth connections (one is low energy). Once linked, the phone usually does not appear to be connected until the TomTom is out of range of its familiar Wi-fi network. So, do not assume bluetooth is not working if the device is connected to Wi-fi. Following these tips and connecting with an iPhone XR (iOS 13 or 14 so far), mine is working reliably. If you cannot get Bluetooth to work, they give you an option to use your phone’s Wi-fi hotspot to link. You could also buy an optional RDS traffic receiver cable (or use one from an older unit you may own), which will provide less-detailed traffic, but still reasonably good, and trouble-free. If none of those are working, but you park at home within range of your Wi-fi network, the unit will connect to Wi-fi upon start-up and get an initial traffic data download before you start your trip from home. The app does not use much data or battery in my experience.Voice control works if you use the allowed commands exactly as documented. For example, if you speak an address and include the state, it will not understand. It also has trouble with background noise and background conversation, which I think is to be expected. Voice control cannot be used to search for points of interest (it can display saved places). Staying within the limitations, it can work. If your phone is connected, it may be easier to use the MyDrive app to input destinations, which can use your phone’s built-in voice recognition for POI searches. It is very easy and quick to send destinations from the MyDrive phone app or the MyDrive web page.This is a good GPS. Compared to a Garmin, there are various small differences, and Garmin has some extra features, but overall, they are roughly equal, except that this provides better routing. This to me is vital, and the reason to buy one. I am very glad to have found this, and it will retire my still-relatively-new Garmin units (Garmin DriveSmart 51 and 55), which work great, except often provide poor routes. The biggest thing I will miss from Garmin is the audible and visible alerts it gives when a speed limit drops.I was reluctant to buy this after reading other reviews, but I am glad I gave it a try.

The real decision is which is better-TomTom or Garmin (I have both). Both are good gps devices and each has some good points that the other does not have. For the way I use a gps, there is no real comparison-TomTom is more suited to my needs. Granted Garmin does a bit better job of lane guidance. However there are far too many pluses for the TomTom. It has much better/more detailed maps. It does a better job of finding the best route. With TomTom itinerary/trip planning is much easier, especially if you want to choose an exact route to follow such as Route 66 or the Lincoln Highway.The final straw was this morning. I typed in a local address (major street in town) on the Garmin and got the message, no such street. Did the same with the TomTom and it took me exactly where I wanted to go. Also the TomTom uses a regular cable for power and traffic to power in the car….Garmin requires that you use their cable.This is an update: My wife and I made a road trip from North Carolina and back. We used both the TomTom and Garmin to make a comparison on a long trip. We were on the interstate most of the way out except for last 300 miles. I input the exact route I wanted to go (north of Los Angeles). TomTom took us exactly the way we wanted to go. The Garmin insisted the shortest and fastest route was going through downtown LA. This was neither the shortest nor the fastest route. For some reason it appeared that Garmin insists that using the interstates is both the shortest and fastest. Never could make it go the way we wanted to go.On the way home, we drove through the Rockies. The route we wanted to take was done for both. TomTom worked flawlessly. Gramin stayed confused, insisting we use the interstate by wanting us to go far out of the way and not the route we wanted to go. At one point the shortest and fastest route was the way we wanted to go (verified by both TomTom and Google maps) while Garmin said another route was faster and shorter….It was 4 hours longer and 200 miles further. Still insisting we travel by interstate.After this trip there is one thing good I can say about the Garmin-it shows the elevation of our current location. That is sort of neat but not really necessary for travel. Without a doubt, for both local driving and long distance road trips, TomTom is head and shoulders about Garmin. I totally recommend TomTom to those who want a GPS that is easy to use and takes you where you want to go

I bought a Garmin Nüvi 350 about 15 years ago, and it has worked exceedingly well for me. Sadly, it started showing signs of age – it has difficulty acquiring satellites when it first wakes up, it sometimes freezes for no apparent reason, and the limited memory makes it difficult to refresh the maps. And because I’m 15 years older, that screen was starting to look rather small. So it was time for an upgrade.So far, I have been very pleased with the Drive 52. I enjoy the larger screen and the much improved and brighter graphics. Something that I had not been expecting but really appreciate is that I can clearly read the screen when wearing my sunglasses –tinted/polarized lenses made it nearly impossible to read the screen on the Nüvi.Obviously, the 52 is a new model, but it has a lot in common with the Nüvi – so much so that it was very easy to import several hundred ‘places’ saved in the Nüvi. I opted to not use the suction cup windshield mount – I don’t like having something obscure a portion of my vision, and my experience with suction cup mounts is that they are not reliable. It’s all too common to return to a parked vehicle to find the GPS lying on the floor instead of in its normal position – this is especially a problem in warm weather because air trapped under the suction cup expands when heated popping the cup away from the window glass. So the fact that it was possible to mount it using the Garmin air vent clamp that I bought as an accessory for the Nüvi was a welcome feature. I was also able to use the same power cord.That said, there are still a few things that I’m still learning about. Some are minor differences – such as the fact that ‘home’ is stored as a trip planning input rather than in the list of ‘places’ – and some are new features. I especially like the ability to create and save a multi-stop ‘route’ that I can use repeatedly. Wife and I go to a resort a couple of times a year, and this feature means that I can store the route including our favorite stops along the way.Attaching the GPS to an air vent mount in my Subaru Forester also means that it doesn’t stick up above the dash to advertise to the world that there is something in the car that might be worth stealing. The fact that the GPS is just below the dash-mounted radio and CD player isn’t inconvenient in use, and unlike the Nüvi, the 52 seems to be able to receive satellite signals just fine in that position.One disappointment was the error message indicating that the most recent map plus my saved places consumed a significant fraction of the available memory, and suggesting that I invest in a microSD card to expand memory capacity. While I understand that market forces impose limits on what can be included in the base model, one would think that it would include enough memory headroom for a few years of use and updating; after all, memory is pretty cheap these days.I like the chime alert when the posted speed limit is exceeded, but I would prefer to be able to set my own threshold. Especially, in around-town driving where the posted limit is low, the chime sounds so frequently that one could develop selective deafness and start ignoring it. I think it would be better if the user could choose to have the chime alarm at a selected point above the posted speed limit, eg 5mph.One other criticism is that the options available with the Drive 52 potentially offer too much information. The 52 is mainly intended to be a navigational aid for drivers, but potentially it could provide too much information, thereby becoming a distraction to the driver. Frankly, if it were up to me, I would move the route and trip planning features, and all the reference information out of the device itself and into Garmin Express, making Garmin Express a trip planning tool as well as a device management tool.

Bought to use on a 40 day, 11,000 mile, trip around the country. Used Trip Planner to choose routes of 28 segments. Installed 128G card to ensure enough memory.Problem 1 – once all Trip Planner data was transferred from the computer to the GPS unit, use of the Where To? function and any subsequent change to route preferences for these searches would want to change the saved Trip Planner routes. Seriously? The Trip Planner data isn’t secured? 1.1 – On routes that were built on the computer in Trip Planner, intermediary stops (Brown Flags) would be present that required physically visiting or the units would reroute until so done. 1.2 – On some routes, the GPS would suggest taking side roads, off the chosen route, that most often were unpaved, private roads. Thee roads were often less than a mile long and would merge back on to the chosen road. In some cases the unit would recalculate over and over trying to get a u-turn.2. More than once the location information was incorrect. For example, using the search for nearest gas station on a route east to west across Central Texas, the unit indicated a Valero gas station 13 miles away. After a 35 mile goose chase I was deposited in front of a cattle gate in the middle of nowhere in 110 degree heat. Thank God Texas has uniform cell coverage and my phone was able to get me to a gas station. My tank holds 4.2 gallons. I put in 4.18 and added about 1.5 hours to my trip IN 110 DEGREE HEAT.3. After approximately 14 days of use the unit stopped accepting power from the cradle. I was forced to keep external power via cord from a cycle battery source. This was marginally successful as vibration would loosen the cord connection in the back of the unit and it would go dark. After several attempts a creating a stable power input, out of frustration, I licked the power contacts on the back of the unit and clicked it into the cradle. Low and behold it came on. But it was intermittent and I would repeatedly have to lick it or moisten the contact bumps on the cradle.4. Near the end of the trip, day 36, the unit stopped taking Where To? searches. With the address entered, when Search was pushed it would power off. Every time. And still does.5. In Colorado I encountered back country locations where GPS did not function. Reception? Before my trip I read on a BLM site that in certain far north locations GPS can not be relied upon. I called Garmin to ask about this and was told that the satellite system works everywhere. It doesn’t.Useless for safe trip guidance and not heavy enough for a door stop.

Still getting use of all the features but I’m satisfied with the performance and would purchase again as a truck driver

I liked the interface of it. But it would not stay on the routing plus I couldn’t keep it on the 3d map view kept switching to north up and yes I updated just b4 I put it in trk.

We have been using our phones for mapping out our drives. One trip using the Garmin RV 890 GPS and we are sold! So easy to use and able to avoid roads we had no idea were weight restricted right around the corner from our home. This has been the best purchase we have made for RV

Works like a champ has built-in Bluetooth and Foursquare, Trip Advisor, and another different mapping system; they will give you the route to your destination but take a way that has more twists and turns and elevations to make the trip that much more fun, so great I bought a second one for my second motorcycle well worth the money.