Darrell KSR
03-22-2013, 10:50 PM
My favorite GPS is the one on my phone, Google Navigation, by far the best I've ever had. I have owned Tom-tom, Navigon, Magellan, and Garmin. But my phone is always "iffy," and I'm usually using it for something else, and, doggone it, they just don't make phone screens as large as they used to (cough cough).
So I use a Magellan 1700 that my wife bought for me a couple of years ago with a 7" screen. Large enough I don't have to squint for numbers, addresses, highways, etc. But the maps are outdated, and I went to look for a map upgrade. They make one with a lifetime map subscription, but of course, that's not the one I have.
I don't know what I was expecting, but the first price I saw was $99.99 for a "lifetime" subscription. Heck, I may break the GPS any day, and you can probably find the thing for about that price new.
There are two others--and I'm not sure what the difference is between them, but one is $79.99 that looks like that one I would need that says it is a one year "subscription" enabling up to 4 upgrades in one year (but no more) and it says it has the "Latest Freeways, Highways, Major Road and Local Streets, New and Updated Points of Interests (POI)."
Then finally there's a $49.99 upgrade that just says it's the latest maps. Maybe that would be good enough for me. I still think that's too high, but I guess I'm just out of the loop.
So I use a Magellan 1700 that my wife bought for me a couple of years ago with a 7" screen. Large enough I don't have to squint for numbers, addresses, highways, etc. But the maps are outdated, and I went to look for a map upgrade. They make one with a lifetime map subscription, but of course, that's not the one I have.
I don't know what I was expecting, but the first price I saw was $99.99 for a "lifetime" subscription. Heck, I may break the GPS any day, and you can probably find the thing for about that price new.
There are two others--and I'm not sure what the difference is between them, but one is $79.99 that looks like that one I would need that says it is a one year "subscription" enabling up to 4 upgrades in one year (but no more) and it says it has the "Latest Freeways, Highways, Major Road and Local Streets, New and Updated Points of Interests (POI)."
Then finally there's a $49.99 upgrade that just says it's the latest maps. Maybe that would be good enough for me. I still think that's too high, but I guess I'm just out of the loop.