Top GPS Guide

Along with a raft of attractive features, Mio’s current premier GPS device offers a 4.3-inch screen and a thin and elegant profile. You’ll get 12 million points of interest to help look up locations; a media player for enjoying music, movies, and photos; and a built-in 2-megapixel camera for creating your own visual favorite-places list.

Glengarry Glen Ross types who roam about Midwestern towns wearing flannel suits and felt fedoras while hawking vacuum cleaners, aluminum siding, and snake oil? Not anymore, but there are certainly modern incarnations of these lonely road warriors: sales reps and roving consultants who can’t quite swing the Lexus with its own navi yet.

The Mio DigiWalker C720t was seemingly made with these nomadic business types in mind. It can point you toward clients, of course, but also pulls quadruple-duty as a serviceable business card scanner that syncs up with Outlook, a camera with geo-tagging capability (useful for tagging potential expansion sites) a hands-free Bluetooth speaker, and a music player that scrolls lyrics to soulful ballads on the wide 4.3-inch screen.

Packing features like this into a single unit is a standard parlor trick for GPS devices these days, but Mio pulls it off reasonably smoothly. With the exception of occasionally having to back out of the map mode to use another feature (as opposed to accessing them via buttons on the map screen) we experienced nary a snafu when traveling with the C720t. When the road beckons, there’s no better assistant to have riding shotgun.

In-car navigation isn’t for everyone; the price alone will cause many people to forgo this technology in favor of the good old paper map. However, if you drive for a living, or like to visit different places on the spur of the moment, GPS can make the driving more enjoyable, leading you to major attractions or guiding you through quiet, scenic back roads.

As a business tool, GPS can be a tremendous aid for field service or delivery personnel, or if you frequent different cities on business trips. As the technology advances and we start seeing more real-time traffic report capabilities, it will be easier to avoid the bumper-to-bumper grind.

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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by admin
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