Disclaimer: This is not about the most fancy or full-featured GPS unit, but it is about a decent unit for an affordable price.
If you’re swimming in cash, by all means get yourself a Nuvi or a TomTom for your navigational pleasure, sure. If not, check out this Pharos portable GPS unit. At $99.99 shipped it is not only the best price I’ve seen for this unit, it is the only Text-To-Speech unit I’ve seen in this price range.
Read the reviews and make an informed decision, as always, but if you’re wanting a pretty good GPS for not much money, this may be the deal for you.
ARGH, Pretty Mir, one day too late! We got a TomTom YESTERDAY, specifically for the text-to-speech.
(Did you know that you can download John Cleese into your GPS for a mere $12.99?)
It comes in pink too!
We have this, and it works great, except the maps are obviously a few years old. It can’t find the local elementary school (built ~5 yrs ago), and on the road, has directed us several times to non-existent points of interest (restaurants that had obviously been boarded up for years!)
If your neck of the woods is fairly stable construction-wise, by all means, this is a great unit. If there’s lots of development, construction, re-routing etc…this unit won’t help much.
The Magellan 3100 can be had at Buy.com for $99.99 after a rebate. I assume the maps are current. My 3140 (same generation, but with maps of all North America) is a pretty good machine. (I sold off a Garmin Nuvi 200 to get the 3140, mainly because the Magellan has much quicker satellite signal acquisition plus text-to-speech.)
I should have included a link to that Buy item:
http://www.buy.com/prod/magellan-maestro-3100-portable-gps-system-refurbished/q/loc/111/207875323.html