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sale which worked out with the discount for opening their credit card
plus the A/C adapter to about half what I would have paid to get the
Nuvi 660 which I was almost ready to go with. While the C550 does give
"turn at Reagan Road" I don't find that as necessary as I had once
thought now having had the opportunity to use the C 530.
I have obtained a Roots camera case and can carry the C530 on my hip
when wandering around a town and wanting to return to my automobile
which normally I never could remember where it was parked and I have
added another set of power cable and ball socket to our second
automobile and find that the units work well connected to the
ball/socket and then placed in the cupholders.
The unit is accurate and while it may not take me the route I might
normally use, it gets mw there and is very quick to recalculate a
route.
The sensitivity of the C530 is outstanding and as long as there is a
window, I can be a dozen feet away and it still has 5 bars up for
satellite reception.
Prior to obtaining the C530, I have tested about 6 other brands and
they are absolutely no competition to the Garmin unit.
MW
Mitchell Regenbogen wrote:
> Jack Erbes <jackerbes@adelphia.net> wrote in
> news:RKednXrePL55d- fYnZ2dnUVZ_r2onZ2d@a
delphia.com:
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> I agree that those are desireable features, and for some, like you, deal-
> breakers. Others, like me, don't need their GPS to provide a historical
> record of their travels, certainly not at a cost of several hundred
> dollars extra, and generally travel to one destination at a time. By
> "important GPS-related features" I meant only accurate maps, ability to
> acquire and maintain a satellite connection, and get you to most
> destinations accurately. I mentioned the c550 since I was responding to
> a post about a nuvi, which is in the same general ballpark.
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