Can you recommend a portable GPS auto navigation unit for me to purchase online in America to be given as a gift to an Italian (carried in luggage)?
I've heard that some GPS units that have European maps, while they text in meters and kilometers, still speak the units in "piedi" (i.e., feet) and "miglio" (i.e., mile) instead of in kilometers.
Also, the power supply and charger would need to handle 220v gracefully (without too many adaptors) and probably also USB (luckily there is at least one power USB standard on this earth!).
Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA, but given in Italy as a gift?
> Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA, but given in Italy as > a gift?
Order the European version of your favorite GPS unit from http://www.amazon.co.uk . You also have the option to have it shipped direct to Italy, which should save you a little luggage space, and shipping cost. -- Mike Russell - http://www.curvemeister.com
Stamba <sstresn...@gmail.com> writes: > On Jul 3, 1:47 pm, Susan <susanwilli...@aol.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:33:57 -0700, Mike Russell wrote: >> >> Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA, >> >> but given in Italy as a gift?
>> Garmin only makes American units so you'll have to buy a TomTom or Magellan >> instead.
Jonathan Schneider wrote: > Stamba <sstresn...@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Jul 3, 1:47 pm, Susan <susanwilli...@aol.com> wrote: >>> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:33:57 -0700, Mike Russell wrote: >>>>> Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA, >>>>> but given in Italy as a gift? >>> Garmin only makes American units so you'll have to buy a TomTom or Magellan >>> instead. >> You are completely misinformed! http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/ontheRoad/
> There is a very valid point. Garmin's idea of addressing outside the > US stinks. The address lookup features on my GPSMAP 60C are absolutely > useless.
Well, i live in Europe and using nuvi 200 without any problem at all - so i really do not understand what you are talking about?
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:24:45 +0200, Stamba wrote: > *any* GPS for which you can find maps will work anywhere in the world - > Magellan, Garmin, TomTom, Navigon, Mio, PocketPC with iGo or GarminXT ...
It has to speak decent Italian and the menus must be in Italian. Will every GPS do that?
>> Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA, but given in Italy >> as >> a gift?
> The only GPS that you can buy in the usa that works in europe is the tom > tom one.
Why is that? Why does Garmin offer so many international maps if the unit will not work out of the US?
To answer a couple of questions that came up in other postings, with the Nuvi 350 (and others, I'm sure) you can have the readout in either miles or kilometers. You can choose Italiano as a language in both a male and female voice.
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:12:19 -0400, Edwin Pawlowski wrote: > Nuvi 350 (and others, I'm sure) you can have the readout in either miles or > kilometers. You can choose Italiano as a language in both a male and female > voice.
You can make the nuvi speak Italian but you can't make that Italian not make you laugh. Even set in kilometers for the text, the words spoken are in feet and miles!
Of course, the nuvi says it with an Italian accent.
Tom wrote: > Can you recommend a portable GPS auto navigation unit for me to purchase > online in America to be given as a gift to an Italian (carried in luggage)?
> I've heard that some GPS units that have European maps, while they text in > meters and kilometers, still speak the units in "piedi" (i.e., feet) and > "miglio" (i.e., mile) instead of in kilometers.
> Also, the power supply and charger would need to ha
