Advantages: Effective, efficient and useful - reasonably priced. Disadvantages: No facility for an easy battery change of replacement.
...Well I chose Garmin as the manufacturer because in my view their maps are better, and their technology reliable.
I pondered a Garmin Edge 705 which is specifically designed for cyclists, and comes with cadence measurement and heart rate monitor.
Sadly it also comes with a massive price tag - around the £320 mark.
So I moved downscale a bit to some of the upper ends of the Garmin family intended for cars. Some have an inbuilt option to give directions ... ...suggestion ! - hence the Garmin Nuvi 205WT.
2 Nuvi out of the box.?
There is a craze today for things to be operational straight out of the box. I personally consider this to be both demeaning to the purchaser, and a denial of some of the real thrills of buying new gadhets.
The real satisfaction to be found with buying a gadget is in being able to ignore the instructions for as long as possible, seeing how much of the gadget you can get to work ...
trevorbrock 06.10.2009
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