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05 April 2010
Celtic Woman scores big with me.
I have long admired the Celtic Woman group. This particular CD was taken from one of their concerts and includes many of their great hits.
Aside from the fact that the ladies are charming, their music is enchanting. I strongly recommend this CD to all that enjoy old world harmony.
This one is the CD. What would really be great to get hold of one of their DVDs of the actual appearances.
07 February 2012
Garmin 3490LMT is EXCELLENT
1 of 1 found this helpful EXCELLENT is my overall opinion of the 3490LMT. I upgraded from a Garmin 1490T because I wanted the voice activation feature of the 3490LMT.
The Voice Activation feature is very good; but not perfect. Typically, I have to speak the address three or four times. But, it will usually understand it then, even if, ultimately the address is not found.
The screen on the 3490LMT is slightly smaller than my 1490T; but I don't think I can tell the difference. The map and map names are very sharp.
I have had one problem in Bluetooth pairing with my smartphone (Samsung Galaxy II SGH-1777). Initially, it would not pickup the Phone Book as the 1490T did. I reloaded the S/W, even though the system said it was current - and then, it worked fine.
Other than that, I have only had a few instances of erratic behavior such as hanging and not recognizing the initial Voice Command to open the voice menu. I generally just turn it off and back on and that cures it. Garmin only recommends that I reload the S/W. So far, I've had to do that only once in the two months I had it.
Its a good buy for the price (but checkout eBay for deals) - Garmin is pretty reliable and their customer support is knowledgeable.
24 December 2006
Good Product, but . . .
105 of 112 found this helpful I took it out on trial to compare to the Garmin C550. The Roadmate is pretty good in navigation mode. I had very little trouble on the road. But, changing something on the road is almost impossibly complex.
It is not as intuitive as the Garmin. Also, the instructions leave much to be desired.
A tremendous advantage over the C550 was the Trip Planner. C550 only allows one intermediate stop. As far as I could tell, the Roadmate is limited only by memory available.
I also liked the auto switch to split screen (TrueView) when approaching a turn or major intersection. The Roadmate provides excellent guidance as to which side of the road you should be on for an impending turn. It also handled complex Interstate intersection navigation perfectly. The C550 has this feature; but not as clear and concise.
The C550 includes Bluetooth and traffic alerts with an initial subscription included. The Roadmate requires add on features to do that.
Things I didn't particularly like; but not big issues, were:
Voice guidance is good, but does not say street name. It shows on the screen; but that requires a glance away from the road. C550 does.
The enroute screen does not orient to the direction of travel. I could not get it off of North (even though I set to the direction of travel).
The Trip Planner optimizes from closest to farthest (and looks good). However, if you do a "round robin", you might want to go in reverse. For instance, I did 14 locations plus Home on one trip (I do compliance audits). I wanted to start with the farthest and work back toward Home to avoid rush hour traffic. Had to setup the trip manually to do that.
And finally, most of the Electronics stores will charge a restocking fee of 15% if you want to take it back. However, at least at the moment, Staples does not do that. Of course, they may change that in the future; and also, their selection isn't as robust as Best Buy or Circuit City, for instance. But it is a good way to try out different models. They didn't stock the Garmin in store (but they had it on the web). So, I had to resort to paying the restocking fee on the Garmin with Best Buy.