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UPDATE: This model has been discontinued. For current recommendations, please refer to our auto GPS buyers guide.
NOTE: MSN Direct is ceasing operations on January 1, 2012.
The Garmin nüvi 285WT
The similarly appointed nuvi 265WT has lifetime NAVTEQ traffic instead of MSN Direct; otherwise it is identical to the 285WT.
UPDATE: This model has been discontinued. For a list of current TomTom models and their features, please see our TomTom comparison chart.
The TomTom XL 340
EDIT: Currently unavailable (as of 12/3/2009).
UPDATE: This model has been discontinued. For a list of current TomTom models and their features, please see our TomTom comparison chart.
The TomTom ONE 125 SE is set to be this year’s Black Friday star, with Walmart set to sell it for $59. The ONE 125 (pictured) was last year’s hit, and not only has the price dropped dramatically from the $99 we saw last year, TomTom has even added text-to-speech!
Technically, the ONE 125 SE is exclusive to Walmart, but we expect it, or perhaps a similar model with another moniker, will be available online Friday. If so, we’ll have it on our GPS Deals site’s Black Friday pages (I’m going out on a limb a little bit here, but you might want to check the site at 9 a.m. Friday). Otherwise, get in line at Walmart.
Our contest has now wrapped up and the three winners should be getting set up with their TeleNav GPS Navigator apps, even as I write this. Congratulations go out to @MyBellaMia, @mazzmn and @madamerkf. And a great big thank you to the folks at @TeleNav and to all of our new followers too.
Here are the gritty details on the selection process for anyone interested. Our 72 entrants were assigned a number in sequential order, starting with 1 for the first entrant and 72 for the last entry received before midnight last night. Winners were selected using a random number generator (results and screenshot below). The first three numbers (15, 31 and 9) were our winners, who were notified by DM earlier today that they had won and needed to respond with a valid email address, which all three did, wrapping up the selection process.
UPDATE: This model has been discontinued, replaced by the nuLink 1695.
The Garmin nüvi 1690
UPDATE: This model has been discontinued. For current recommendations, please refer to our auto GPS buyers guide.
The Garmin nüvi 1250
UPDATE: Contest now closed. Thanks for your entries; we’ll be contacting and announcing the winners shortly.
Thanks to the folks at TeleNav, we’re giving away three one-year subscriptions to GPS Navigatorvia a Twitter contest. To win, simply do both of the following steps:
The fine print:
UPDATE: This model has been discontinued. For a list of current TomTom models and their features, please see our TomTom comparison chart.
The TomTom GO 630
A lot of new topo map products have shown up on Garmin’s website. Some of these may have been available for awhile, but most appear to be new. I’ll also note that they seem to be different than the offerings from Garmin’s long running third-party MapSource developer program. In addition to the U.S., Canada, Great Britain and Australia, I’m now seeing:
