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I bought this product since our PX had a roadshow sale w/ a $100 discount. Needless to say I bought the item, with a slight hesitation, since it was a good steal. I normally research a product and make comparisons before I purchase it.

I gave it a 3-star because when i took it our for a test run, after inputting my home address, it gave me the wrong location for my house. Granted it was only a block away from me. I went to work and other places I normally go to but when I ask for a direction, instead of taking the most direct route, it gave me a route that took me away from the interstate through city streets. I don't understand why it would do such thing even with the settings on "fastest route" enabled.

The battery life on this gadget doesn't last for 5 hours neither even with battery save on. Roughly 2-3 hours tops. The car charger is basically worthless since the unit doesn't use the external power and would continually run on internal battery. If you try to charge it with the unit off, it would take at least 8 hours for it to charge up in you car and that I quote from customer service. Needless to say, if you're going on a cross country trip, like I plan to do in the next few months, plan accordingly and choose what sites you want to visit. And, oh yeah, bring a Rand McNally map, too. It may come very handy.

Lately, I've had trouble with the software and I can't do any backups nor operate my device through my pc. What's up with that? It didn't even cycle through when I turned it on and it was stuck on the start up screen. It got pretty frustrating after resetting it for 5 times.

This may be a learning system since it's finally choosing the route I normally take going out the gate, otherwise, it'll take me on a right, left, right, left instead of taking the most direct and effecient route.

For Tomtom traffic, I don't understand why the subscription charge is in pounds or euro currency. It'll give your traffic updates for European countries but the Europe map is not even loaded into my system. No U.S. traffic subscription? I thought I bought a decent GPS model?

As far as operation and ease of use, I gave it a 5-star. Unfortunately, I don't have other systems so I can't make a very good comparison with a different product. In the meantime, it takes me I need to go with a few extra unnecessary turns.

If I you decide to purchase a GPS, ensure that you conduct a good research. It's an investment that you wouldn't want to regret.

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