Tomtom should get brownie points for their (albeit nebulous)
connection to British cars and culture via John Cleese:
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/john-cleese-breaks-free-tomtom-gps-campaign-132
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(I've been present for the Cleese voice to yell "You stupid git! I
said make a right" )
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Miq Millman miq@bigllama.com
Tualatin, OR Big Llama Productions
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Scott Hall
<scott.hall.personal@gmail.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> 1) Smartphone. If you've got an Android or Blackberry, get the Google Maps
> app for it. I don't use a standalone GPS unit any more.
>
> 2) Barring that, I'll go home and get the model number off ours, which we
> bought at Thanksgiving for my mom before she said she already had one. It
> works fine, and I have to think at this point virtually anything from
Tomtom
> or Magellan (or the other Big Name I'm forgetting right now...Garmin!
> That's it!) will have to do just fine. Our was $75 on sale, works great.
> Think it's a Tomtom.
>
> Scott
>
> On 6/6/2011 12:51 PM, john niolon wrote:
>>
>> to keep it shop related... sometimes losing my way to the shop I'm
>> considering
>> buying a GPS for the car.
>>
>> I start looking and realize that each manufacturer has at least 76 models
>> available... I need something in the range of $0 - $200 and easy enough
>> for
>> an old man to use... as a backup plan I do have a 10 year old grandson
>> that
>> could probably program it for me...
>>
>> recommendations ??
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