I’m a little surprised TomTom hasn’t updated their RIDER series more often. It seems like they’ve ceded the market to Garmin.

As far as I see it, the 220 doesn’t have the fuel warning and has a smaller screen than the 660 has. Probably more battery life, who knows, but I have a 660 and can probably predict the 220 will be just as impressive, maybe less. Which is not very.

I do not think that it justifies the price – the processor speed is so slow that by the time you are at the corner, it wants you to turn at THAT corner in the “next” 15m – and then it decides to recalculate because I overshot.

Trying to store trips based on the log is actually not so easy as you have to reset the log every time.

And in addition, why should you have to select the avoidances in the Settings panel, and not before the trip? Tomtom does this; if it finds a trip with the toll roads or what not, it asks you if you want to take Toll or Non-Toll – this is so handy.

In addition, I often wonder if the software ever gets tested before they release updates to it, because the last few updates have had one bug or another.

Oh yes, and that integrated cabling that you have to SOLDER inline to the power supply – I’m sure that having the cable too short was a fantastic idea!

As for the ridiculous idea of requiring a “weather cap” – how stupid is that? You have to order replacements in too, and they can get stolen. I consider myself lucky that mine hasn’t been stolen.

Also I am now having problems with the touch screen (AFTER THE WARRANTY EXPIRED?!) and it requires more force (which can eventually lead to damage) and it requires calibrating every 3-4 weeks.

If this is the best set of “improvements” they can do, I am not recommending it.

I think the next GPS I’m getting may well be a Tomtom because clearly Garmin has no idea what they are doing.

I could think of SO MANY improvements to their GPS too.

so I take $1000 for a zumo 660 subtract $200 for a real good GPS take the $800 left over and pay my cell phone bill for a year.