I was in the market for a second GPS unit. I was going to buy the same Navman usin that I already have. Howver I am enperienced GPS user now and I know what feature were lacking in my old unit. A couple of features I was looking for include

text to speech
Ability to avoid highways
Ability to enter my own route if I know a certain road has a ton of lights or contruction
Live traffic
A detour feature

Based on the recommendations of some friends I was looking at the Garmin 750 & 760 gps units, After a bit of research I discovered that somting about the Nuvi line. The Avoidances menu can be used as a round-about way of forcing the nuvi 760 to exclude highways. Unfortunately there’s no way to avoid, or exclude, specific roads or highways – a feature sorely missing from Garmin’s entire nuvi product line.

I then turned my eye to the Magellan 4250 which I saw at buy.com for $119 refurbished. The live traffic feature has a free trial for 3 month ans then is $60/year. That’s not too bad.

Most GPS system make you choose avoidance options (avoid highways, avoid tolls etc..) as part of the main menu system and it applies to all routes you enter. The 4250 et’s you choose a route method while entering an address. After you can further tweak the chosen path by browsing the maneuver list and excluding any roads you want to specifically avoid. You can also use the methos for detours bu there is also a dedicated detour option.

It looks easy to enter multiple stops (way points) if you want to plan a trip to different points on the same trip.

This is a lot of GPS for only $119.