A Garmin fan-boy "reviews" the TomTom Go 740 Live
Gizmodo - Why TomTom Sucks - Tomtom go 740 live
In my opinion, the primary function of a GPS device is to, based on your preferences, determine a reasonably fast or short route to your destination, and then provide real-time guidance to you - the driver - to keep you on that route. If it fails to do that, then the other features are meaningless.
My year-long experience with my Garmin c550 showed me that Garmin falls flat on it's face with regard to guidance - unnecessarily telling me to "keep left" to avoid accidentally exiting the highway that I'm supposed to continue on, and failing to tell me to keep left/right, or turn in some instances when it really would be helpful.
My year-long experience with my TomTom tells me that with regard to the core functionality mentioned above, they are head and shoulders above Garmin.
The article really should be titled "Why dumb-a** people shouldn't work for a gadget blog".
Gizmodo - Why TomTom Sucks - Tomtom go 740 live
In my opinion, the primary function of a GPS device is to, based on your preferences, determine a reasonably fast or short route to your destination, and then provide real-time guidance to you - the driver - to keep you on that route. If it fails to do that, then the other features are meaningless.
My year-long experience with my Garmin c550 showed me that Garmin falls flat on it's face with regard to guidance - unnecessarily telling me to "keep left" to avoid accidentally exiting the highway that I'm supposed to continue on, and failing to tell me to keep left/right, or turn in some instances when it really would be helpful.
My year-long experience with my TomTom tells me that with regard to the core functionality mentioned above, they are head and shoulders above Garmin.
The article really should be titled "Why dumb-a** people shouldn't work for a gadget blog".
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