I have never used one and I am going to need one (or would like one) soon. It's going to bounce from two cars or else I would buy an "in-dash" head unit. I can afford up to $275 but prefer the $250 mark. I looked up some but I dont know which brand or features are good ones to have.
What is the best I can get for that price?
Thanks in adavanced.

 

i myself use a tomtom it ran me 150 and its great. the only reason there are higher priced gps is basically because the size of the screen

 

I have a Navigon myself, ran me about $170, and its great, no complaints or anything.

 

Garmin! 205,205w(wide screen),255(text to speech),255w. Garmin!

 

I just got a Garmin nuvi 260, thing is amazing!

 

garmin nuvi ftw

 

my sisters got a garmin 205, gf has a navigon, dad has a magellan and had a mio. Mio broke after a year, dont really like the magellan. both the garmin and navigon are good
I use my windows mobile phone with tom tom and garmin software both, i like the garmin software a lot better though

 

Garmin Nuvi 780 it has a lot of features and is real easy to hear while driving ,, You can down load music on it , it has a battery so you can take it out iof the car , Different modes for driving Streets , Walking across land ,, Fully loaded 09 maps of the US ,Flashes weather reports if there is threating weather in the area you are driving , It was around 250.00 ,,

 

What about a TOMTOM 340S XL?

 

TomTom is OK....but check nuvi 255w bc it comparable to the 340s XL But IMO garmin is best out there you may pay alittle more but it is worth it.

TomTom always have a problem with keeping the sat signal, dont know if they fixed that with there new models this year.