I also like Garmin, but not as much as I used to. If I ever get another one, I'll look around at competing brands.

Garmin's good points: Nice designs, rugged and durable (the outdoor models), quick ongoing updates to unit firmware and software (not maps, though). With most models you can do routings on a PC and xfer to the unit.

Bad points: The maps are average, but not top of the line. Some models come with bare minimal maps, and you have to buy separately the detailed maps you want, such as the driving/road maps for an outdoor/handheld model. Map prices are not cheap. The nuvi models already have the detailed road maps built in. Until you become familiar with Garmin's various map options, it is confusing exactly what's what. And the POI in the road maps always seem to be missing something somewhere when you really need it, grocery stores that have been open for five years, or roads or turn-navigation that is identified by 'street name' on the maps, but on the road while driving are named by route number (The unit map displays Columbia Road, but the intersection is signed with RT 99, and RT 101, but no Columbia Rd, ... it's can be frustrating).

A 2008 release of North America maps is supposed to be an improvement on the prior versions. But, another bad point, you have to purchase map updates. They are never, ever free nor continuously updated, unlike and not to be confused with continuous and no charge updates for the unit firmware and map-viewer software you run on a PC.