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Originally Posted by RickinMA  my sister has a magellan portable unit and it's great that she can look up a restaurant then call ahead for seating - do the garmins and tomtoms both include phone info in their POI info?
without much experience with them, they all look pretty similar - any particular features you like about one brand vs another? |
The garmins have Phone in the POI's and allow you to dial from it as well as enter your own phone info to existing or custom POI's. Not sure about the TomTom's.
From what I have seen between the TomTom and Garmin, at least this area is that the Map software on the TomTom's may be slightly more up to date. However the Navigation system is superior on the Garmin. Not sure either would be a deal breaker. I figured my choice was easy, as I went from a magellin years ago, to a Garmin and was much happier with the Garmin. After many years of being happy with the Garmin, and from some of what I had seen up close between the two. I figured I would stick with Garmin.
edit 1 - BTW, if you decide on a Garmin model and want to see how it works, you can download the manuals from the website. This was useful when I started looking. May be able to do the same for TomTom