I bought myself one of the Garmin 360s for Christmas and I absoultely love it

I particular like the fact that its only 5 ozs smaller than my Palm E-2 love that I can stick in my shirt pocket rather than leave in the car with WAAAS capability ( do the Tom toms have this/) I can actually use it when on foot.

The Europe maps are expensive but a friend tried an on-line demo (link was provide by Garmin) for a small village in Spain where his wife's family is from and found it very accurate

mike

i have the garmin c320 but i can't see very well because of how large it is. so now i bought an acura unfortunately it's not interface wise as good as the garmin

I had my TomTom 910 set to the computerized American female voice when I took it to France. I quickly discovered that "roundabout" (France, too, is full of them) is not in her recorded vocabulary, so she had to guess at it, as she does with street names. I switched to the computerized British woman, who knew how to say "roundabout," and is easier in general to understand.

I love my TomTom 910.

I am using Inav on my IPAQ HX2495. It is ultra portable, and I still have the ability to use it for emails and web browsing at the hotel. Tried the laptop route but too bulky for the car, and not easy to view when checking the route. I can still preplan at home by enetring all my favorites, and adding a new destination on the fly is simple but should be done at a stop. I have tried Co Pilot and Tom Tom but prefer Inav.

I was reading a PC Mag articles on GPS nav systems and it said in particular to handheld/mobile systems, that a GPS cannot tell direction unless it is going at least 10mph, thus making the handheld units (used for walking) not a good idea. Is this true?

Here is a whole thread on the subject that was here previously. I usually don't preach about "doing a search" but it might have been beneficial in this case.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...eferrerid=5290

Not in my experience. It might be more accurate at a higher speed, but my Garmin Nuvi can sense me moving it around at arms length while standing still. The speed and direction are smoothed out over a couple of seconds so it pretty much reflects what's going on unless you're dodging alligators or something. I've used the pedestrian mode on the Nuvi once and it looked OK to me - it certainly told me I was walking down the street in the right direction, and it showed when I turned down the wrong street (just testing ).

EDIT: I guess you're reading this article. I will mention that the guidance I received in pedestrian mode was specific to a pedestrian - it directed me down the Atlantic City boardwalk, which I think it would not have done if I was in automobile mode (at least I hope not).

I have a Garmin GPSMap 60 CSx. It has the ability to switch to a "Pedestrian" mode, and I have not had the problem you describe when in this mode. It tells direction and gives an accurate estimate of how long it's going to take to walk to a destination.