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Default Shopping for a Garmin
On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 13:02:09 -0400, wrote:

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Do you already have an Android or Apple smart phone? If so you may
find that mapping app to be as good as a Garmin. My Android phone
even has pretty good speech recognition for destination searching. I
think the key is to use a phone with a large, brightly lit screen.
Mine came from Amazon at a very reasonable price and with a very nice
screen:

http://www.amazon.com/Studio-5-5S-Quad-Unlocked-White/dp/B00IWCCYY8


I find it strange that everyone seems to think talking on a cell phone
is a huge danger but screwing with a GPS or any of that other dash
mounted computer hardware is just fine.


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Of course the safe thing to do is to pull over while you set the
destination and check the route. After that the phone just talks to
you without any intervention.
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