2010 Nav comments

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by Armand

True it won't announce street names like Garmin (though it does announce highway names) but it does display street names on the nav. A quick glance at the Nav can solve that problem.

I've tried that, and if you soom in close enough to be useful in terms of seeing the label of the next street in cities, it typically is not smart enough to move the label in close enough to show in the screen. I have found that to ensure you can see the label of the next upcoming street, you have to zoom out so far it loses its utility for determining the next street (in cities).

But you can set it up so that the split screen will give you your latitude and longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds! Quite useful if you're a boat.

As to the speed of initializing a position, yes, that is an advantage of the Nav over the Garmin that I forgot to include -- the X5 Nav clearly has much more computing power than the low-priced Garmins and has less lag for most tasks. The Garmin is reasonably quick to initialize if you are not moving, but does take some time if you are moving while it is initializing.