Which better navigon or tomtom

Overview Prices Specs. Garmin Nuvi W. Scroll down for more details. Has lifetime maps. Which are the most popular comparisons? Price comparison. General info 1. The bigger the screen size is, the better the user experience. The device has a standard memory slot such as an SD or micro SD card slot that enables you to extend the built-in internal storage with affordable memory modules, or easily retrieve data, such as photographs, from the memory card.

Resolution is an essential indicator of a screen's image quality, representing the maximum amount of pixels that can be shown on the screen. The resolution is given as a compound value, comprised of horizontal and vertical pixels. There is less chance that you will run out of battery during an adventure. Navigon has a pretty sophisticated lane viewing system that allows you to visualize different exits.

Real life scenario : I tested directions to a local restaurant, and interestingly I got three different paths. Sygic recommended taking an exit closest to the destination, as did Google and Navigon, doubling back just a bit. TomTom suggested taking an earlier exit. For the same driver profile take all tolls, avoid HOV lanes on a longer trip to Philadelphia, TomTom suggested a route that takes minutes miles. The program is free you do have to create an AOL account but the program has turn by turn with voice.

It does everything my TomTom does, but has more up to date info on store locations, etc. I can play XM Radio or iTunes and the sound will dim when I have to make a turn and the voice will let me know which way to go. Now I just need to find a good mount and charger for the iPhone 4. I might have to check out that mapquest thing just to compare.

Hardware and technical stuff. Anyone used one of these? Are any of the choices notably better than the others? Dear hivemind: please help. I use Google Navigation on my Droid all the time, it is awesome. Stay tuned for our review of TomTom's mount, shown in the photo above at right. These things suck juice like nobody's business. Operate without a charger, and your phone will become a brick within the hour.

This means you should paste in addresses for your most visited friends and colleagues. Instantly it appears in your navigation app too. If you pause your music though, you can't double-tap the home button to start it again. You'll have to exit your navigation app, go into the iPod interface, and start it up. They are both very reputable sources of road data now, and it would take you a long time to identify any differences, let alone one's clear superiority over the other.

In other words, at this point, since it's one or the other, source of road data doesn't really matter. The map makers named above are constantly updating, but they don't publish updates even to monthly subscription services instantly. It takes months—sometimes weeks if you're lucky—for map data to go live, and most tweaks are new housing developments and other things you might not notice. Also, map makers may spend a lot of time and effort on an area where you don't live, and never get around to fixing your particular neighborhood problem.

There's an intersection in Poughkeepsie, NY that has been wrong in Navteq's database for five years, because hey, it's Poughkeepsie! So it doesn't make sense to argue that you should spend over 2X the money for a subscription app that isn't as good as the fixed ones—even if you have to buy expensive map modules or new versions of them in a couple of years.

On the flipside, many people driving with three- or four-year-old Garmins are pretty happy. That was always a signature of Magellan who like Garmin doesn't make an iPhone app at the moment. Every app tells you when you are approaching a turn. They do so at different intervals. While it seems from a comparative standpoint that the intervals themselves matter, they do not after the initial breaking-in period.

You just acclimate to the instructions you're getting from your own device, and make safe driving maneuvers based on those instructions.