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Garmin's 265 models seem to be right at the best price vs performance point and are the model to get unless you need some of the fancier features. Personally I think the 3.5" screens are a little to small and are a little over crowded with information so I would get the 265WT model instead of this. But if you don't mind the screen size, this unit is a good buy.

i think this is the perfect size. the wide version i have feels a bit clunky compared to the gf's 265T.

i swear by my 265t. has the features i need. comes with free lifetime traffic for in city driving. for this price, i might get one for my parents since it's pretty easy to use and the displays are big and bold unlike the magellan gps units. friends that have tom tom hates theirs

Why some other 265t only has 9 months free traffic or msn, is there any difference? and what about the map update, does it cost $ every year?

I bought the 4.3" refurb from TigerDirect a week ago. I have had some lock-up problems that seem to be associated with the volume control, it would turn on but without voice and the "beeps" when using the touch screen. When I would go and try to adjust the volume that's when it would freeze. It would unfreeze after a few secs but still w/o any volume. I would power cycle 3-4 times to get the volume functional. I just called Tiger, customer service seemed very good, I just received an email with the You Print UPS label. I am returning this one and going to try one more. For the $129 and a 4.3" we will see. Tiger said they have sold lots. It did pair easily with my phone and navigation seemed good.

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Here is the bottom line regarding portable GPS units. You need not read anything else on the subject but this.
Each GPS manufacturer must launch or pay to have launched their own GPS satellite(s). The GPS unit in your car can only "speak" to it's own company's satellite. The satellites in turn "speak back" to the individual GPS units. That is why they were so expensive several years ago. Now, with so many privately owned GPS satellites orbiting our planet, the costs have come way down due to reverse economics,supplemental demand, global warming conditions brought on by 8 years of Republicans and other geophysic,economic and hedonistic,intrinsic factors.This has happened many times recently with Garming and TomTom since they are the most popular. If too many people are using their GPS at the same time, the satellites overload and can actually crash into another planet, star, meteor or asteroid...or worst case back down to Earth in highly uncivilized, population centers being a distinct, yet most efficient and attractive gravitational possibility.Additionally, GPS radar microwave beams can be warped and/or "wrapped" from satellites that are about to transpond and overload because of too many people beaming to them at once. Beam and microslurry overload causes the satellites server platitudes to reject or discard any more signals. The result is dissention or cumulative resonance and other causal acute disturbances from RFP,laser and even low frequency,subsonic particular mass ensembles. Those that hold dissenting opinions are non-factoid morons.

You all must now read what I know as the knowledge I hold is huge. I am a Phd in Interplanetary Physics and Orbital and Satellite Trajectory Vectors. So what I state here is unequivocal both in fact and recent history.
Most of you are clock punching ilk who have been deprived of intelligence genetically and of education financially. Not so for me. Thus it behooves you to heed my enormous knowlege.
Here is the bottom line regarding portable GPS units. You need not read anything else on the subject but this.
Each GPS manufacturer must launch or pay to have launched their own GPS satellite(s). The GPS unit in your car can only "speak" to it's own company's satellite. The satellites in turn "speak back" to the individual GPS units. That is why they were so expensive several years ago. Now, with so many privately owned GPS

Garmin's 265 models seem to be right at the best price vs performance point and are the model to get unless you need some of the fancier features. Personally I think the 3.5" screens are a little to small and are a little over crowded with information so I would get the 265WT model instead of this. But if you don't mind the screen size, this unit is a good buy.

gassyjoe why would you repeat? Mine locks up all the time and I had it replaced. The new one came with it already opened in the box and the FM traffic receiver does not work. I got that from newegg. Features good -- performance bad.

The GPS unit in your car can only "speak" to it's own company's satellite. The satellites in turn "speak back" to the individual GPS units. That is why they were so expensive several years ago.

The bigger companies have more units communicating with the distinct possibility of overload or crash. This has happened many times recently with Garming and TomTom since they are the most popular. If too many people are using their GPS at the same time, the satellites overload and can actually crash into another planet, star, meteor or asteroid...or worsed case back down to Earth.

Also, the beams that are transmitted as the GPS units "speak" to the satellites can cause beam deflection errors which usually occur on bridges or the entrances to tunnels. Additionally, GPS radar microwave beams can be warped and/or "wrapped" from satellites that are about to transpond and overload because of too many people beaming to them at once.