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User Submitted Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006 With GPS Locator[Old Version] Reviews (cont...)Date: 2007-03-21 What's it for? This item is great, but I bought it as a Street Navigator and that seems secondary to the software. It should open up ready for you to type in an address and go, you have to find this feature. Date: 2007-03-19 Good Product Liked it. Easy to set up. GPS receiver is very sensitive. Detailed maps are exportable to my PDA. All around good deal! Date: 2007-03-18 Great way to travel I bought this GPS navigation system to be used on a road trip my wife and I planned from the Boston area to the Miami area with numerous stops on the way. The GPS performed excellent picking up satellites in the worst of conditions in just moments. Positioning and turn info were flawless except where roads had been moved due to new construction. It even found the smallest of roads and address out in the hills of TN. The only complaint I have is that the software does not tell you how many miles/hour you have driven or how many are left. It does tell you the whole trip time and distance but it does it assuming that you have started at a set time each day and finished driving at a set time. People don't travel that way. They drive until they reach a destination where they can spend the night at a hotel/motel that has often been booked in advance. These problems have a work around if you record your odometer miles and time of start and stop each day and use paper and pencil or calculator to add and subtract the known. I believe this choir could be eliminated very easy by the software with just a little more tweaking. Over all its' performance is better that the two none PC connected GPS systems I already have. FYI: Purchasing an external amplified PC speaker would be well worth the money since notebook speakers are to soft to be heard well over the road noise while traveling at 65/70 MPH. Date: 2007-03-16 I prefer DeLorme. I have been using DeLorme for the past year. I travel via car from Florida to Maine to Minnesota to Texas, so I give it a pretty good workout. I bought the Streets & Trips to try out and/or give to a co-worker. I installed the software and immediately realized that I couldn't store an address book. One of my complaints about DeLorme is that I can only store 200 addresses. I like to save my office, home, customers, restaurants, and hotels, so the lack of an address book is a deal breaker for me. One other item I noticed is that when you search for a location of interest like restaurants, DeLorme returns about 50 times the number that Microsoft did. I did like the GPS antenna. Date: 2007-03-08 Cheap and very useful while travelling After looking at many GPS devices in the market. I found Microsoft Streets 2006 with GPS is the best for your travelling. Before deciding what GPS to buy it is important to know how frequently you use GPS. Spending hundreds of dollars on GPS if travelling only 5 times a year is just waste of money. Looking this frequency I bought MS streets 2006 with GPS. The product is real good. I didn't find anyproblem with this and accuracy of details is excellent. It guides till we reach 10-20 yards and that is pretty much accurate unless you are changing lanes in downtown in every 50 yards. The voice clarity is good. If you have FM tramitter then connecting to LAPTOP will ease you hearing part of the gps. this is because as we travel anywhere from 65M per hour it is difficult to hear the laptop voice... I recommend this product for those who occasionaly go may be 6 -10 times a year.
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