At the start of each month, we look back to see what were our reader’s favorite reviews for the previous month, which seems to be a pretty good indication of what many folks are researching as potential purchases. The big news this time is on the handheld side, where the Garmin Montana 600 debuted in the number three position. On the auto side, five-inch screens and lifetime map updates continue to dominate as the most popular feature sets. And there’s no change at the top of the charts, as the Oregon 450 and nuvi 1450LMT retain their top positions. On to the charts…
Top ten auto GPS
- Garmin nuvi 1450LMT
- Garmin nuvi 1450
- Garmin nuvi 2460LMT
- Garmin nuvi 1490LMT
- Garmin nuvi 2460LT
- Garmin nuvi 3790LMT
- TomTom XXL 540TM
- Garmin nuvi 1490T
- Garmin nuvi 2350LMT
- Garmin nuvi 3790T
About Rich Owings
Just happened to bump into the congressional hearings on the LightSquared Wireless Network hearings and its impact on GPS. I own a Garmin GPSMAP 62st. Assuming the next round of testing of the bandwidth succeeds and this makes it through committee and is passed by Congress, what will its effect be on the performance of those of us who own these nice hand held GPS units? My online research does not sound promising, and a Garmin engineer has stated it would be impossible to retrofit millions of GPS units with a yet-to-be designed and constructed filter that LightSquare says will solve the problem . . . I will be most interested in your commentary on this topic.
It probably won’t affect consumer units, but we really don’t know for sure yet. The bigger issue right now is with the high-precision models used by surveyors, etc.