I like Garmin but all these new gps models are unnecessary. I have the Garmin Nuvi 5000 and with a new system update they could have added these new features of the Nuvi 1490t to it. Also at the same time the Nuvi 1490t takes away some of the nice features of the Nuvi 5000. Garmin is thinking more like a business trying to make money than a business trying to make good quality product!

Garmin – First of all there is no perfect GPS unit. I have now owned 2 garmin (765T & 1490T) and a Magellan 1475T both tops in their brands.
Magellan 1475T slow processing, sometimes past a turn before it tells you to turn. Searching for San Francisco it came up with every San XXX in Mexico. Tech support said they were working on the problem when I emailed them. I have to say the sound was loud enough and the quality was great.
Garmin 1490T – My unit took 2 days to charge the battery. After one day it could not find the satellite so I had to charge it for a second day. If it was not plugged into the car charger it would randomly loose signal. The unit had loud enough sound, better than all other garmins. It seemed like it could produce quaility sounds but the voices were not good and the ones that called out the actual street names were so cheezy they skipped syllables in the words. After downloading the software update got more voices but they too had problems. Then when I went to favorites the unit would reboot. Freeway lane displays were far too short to do any good and 0.9 mile warning to transition a freeway to exit is not enough. Blue tooth is not worth using unless you are going to punish the person on the other end of the call. The FM transmitter was worthless because there are no open FM areas in Los Angeles and the power level was to low to take precedence.

Garmin 765T. Other than the following, the same as 1490t above. The speaker was so small and the sonics so bad that unless you mount it on the front window, you will never hear it in traffic, even with the windows up. Traffic re-routing did work good. Single was not a problem.