Three Hundred Dollar SPEAKING GPS?

[MEXICOWANDERER]

Me? Try to read a GPS while driving? It's would be a recipe for disaster. Especially downtown USA.

But what a shock I got when I priced a GPS with audible voiced directions.

Do they REALLY cost $200-300 dollars? Fat chance of me affording THAT.

I do not own a tablet, and I have a Mexican cellular. But I am getting weary of three hour fifteen mile drives finding medical offices with no signage name, and three quarters of downtown San Diego buildings without visible street addresses.

Someone shouting "ONE MORE BLOCK THEN TURN RIGHT!" would be a godsend.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

shepstone wrote:
Am I missing something? I thought they all did voice prompts ?

This happens when someone outside of the country with awful Google access has no one to ask. When I finally got to ask a question on Google, up jumped the pricetags. No, I do not know what I'm doing in this subject. It's the reason for me asking...

[DutchmenSport]

On our trip to Florida, our TomTom finally died. We were somewhere in Alabama and finally found a WallMart. Our phones (mapping programs) were awful trying to find a Wall Mart. Finally found the Wall Mart after venturing through 2 different cities. Got a new TomTom for $125.00. Nice change, it has nice features the old one did not have, and especially like that 3d look, and the ability to see the road ahead about a mile when zoomed out. Ours is Samantha as that is the voice she has.

We discussed using our phones exclusively. However, if you do not have cell phone service, the maps are pretty much useless. Too risky. TomTom (and Garmin) don't depend upon the internet except to import the latest maps once a year. They rely on Satellite GPS positioning. Works anywhere and no dependency at all on the internet. For us, it was most logical to get a new TomTom.

Found out we could have gotten the same TomTom for about $75 over the internet from WallMart, but where would it ship to since we were in Alabama on the road and we needed it right then!

Did I say, her name is Samantha because she talks?

[shepstone]

Am I missing something? I thought they all did voice prompts ?

[MEXICOWANDERER]

I need vocal shrieks and prompting. When I start engraving the lord's prayer on a grain of rice I can use a device with the screen size of a postage stamp.

1St Street
2nd Street
Lemon Ave.
Third Street
Sixth Street
Campus Boulevard

What? No street parking? Well there was a Wendy's back a-ways. How did the the street numbers jump from the two thousands to the six thousands? Ohhhhhhhh, the sign is on the CROSS STREET SIDE of the building. You know the one way street that I couldn't turn at.

"Hey buddy you calla cab? Yeah I can take you there. Let me adjust my turban. It'll be around nine bucks, maybe four minutes"

[pianotuna]

Connect the phone to wifi. Find the location. Activate the directions. Plug the phone into the cigarette lighter outlet. You won't be able to add more locations--unless you go to somewhere with free wifi.

A prepaid track phone from Walmart would also work.

No way am I going to buy a gps for $300--not unless it can do dishes.