Thinking About Buying A Gps

[Sojourner]

[quote name='rkwright' post='1836949' date='Apr 15 2009, 11:18 PM']haha condescending voices eh? "Turn right NOW! NO NO YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG - MAKE A U-TURN"[/quote]
Seriously it does get annoying. Every time it says "recalculating" it sounds more and more annoyed with you.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Terra Firma' post='1836950' date='Apr 15 2009, 11:21 PM']Seriously it does get annoying. Every time it says "recalculating" it sounds more and more annoyed with you. [/quote]
"Now please, get into the right lane. Make a right turn. Don't make me tell you again. Well you screwed that up. Get into the left lane and we'll try this again. Honestly, I don't know why I bother with you."

[Mercy me]

I general I find that I like thee GPS voices better than my back seat driver's.

[philothea]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1836951' date='Apr 16 2009, 12:23 AM']"Now please, get into the right lane. Make a right turn. Don't make me tell you again. Well you screwed that up. Get into the left lane and we'll try this again. Honestly, I don't know why I bother with you."[/quote]


With [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001VEJEGK?ie=UTF8&tag=amberdine-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B001VEJEGK"]the TomTom XL 340s GPS[/url] you can purchase/download celebrity voices, like Mr. T or John Cleese to tell you directions. I do kinda hope Mr. T scolds people when they make a wrong turn!

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='philothea' post='1836988' date='Apr 16 2009, 12:05 AM']

With [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001VEJEGK?ie=UTF8&tag=amberdine-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B001VEJEGK"]the TomTom XL 340s GPS[/url] you can purchase/download celebrity voices, like Mr. T or John Cleese to tell you directions. I do kinda hope Mr. T scolds people when they make a wrong turn![/quote]
That's awesome!

[littleflower+JMJ]

Make sure you watch the Office episode where Michael used a GPS.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='littleflower+JMJ' post='1837002' date='Apr 16 2009, 12:13 AM']Make sure you watch the Office episode where Michael used a GPS. [/quote]

That's one of the ten or so I've ever seen!
So good.

[CatherineM]

I wonder how my husband is going to handle having the dashboard talk to him. He already thinks the TV talks to him occasionally.

[Nihil Obstat]

Ooh, how about a Johnny Knoxville voice that swears at you when you miss turns and stuff!
I can't type (even censored) what that would be like.

[SaintOlaf]

[quote name='philothea' post='1836988' date='Apr 16 2009, 02:05 AM']I do kinda hope Mr. T scolds people when they make a wrong turn![/quote]

I pity the fool that doesn't make a U-turn right NOW!

[img]http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/01/04/mr_t.jpg[/img]

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='rkwright' post='1836949' date='Apr 16 2009, 01:18 AM']haha condescending voices eh? "Turn right NOW! NO NO YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG - MAKE A U-TURN"[/quote]


[quote name='philothea' post='1836988' date='Apr 16 2009, 02:05 AM']

With [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001VEJEGK?ie=UTF8&tag=amberdine-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B001VEJEGK"]the TomTom XL 340s GPS[/url] you can purchase/download celebrity voices, like Mr. T or John Cleese to tell you directions. I do kinda hope Mr. T scolds people when they make a wrong turn![/quote]

I was just going to ask if this was an option for the Garmin gps systems. It cracked me up when I saw it was available for my TomTom. If I hadn't been buying the map upgrades I might have gone ahead and spent some money on a funny voice.

[Sojourner]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1837218' date='Apr 16 2009, 09:31 AM']I was just going to ask if this was an option for the Garmin gps systems. It cracked me up when I saw it was available for my TomTom. If I hadn't been buying the map upgrades I might have gone ahead and spent some money on a funny voice.[/quote]
Maybe I can live with old maps ... I'm not sure if I can live much longer without Mr. T helping me out when I get lost.

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='Terra Firma' post='1837250' date='Apr 16 2009, 12:24 PM']Maybe I can live with old maps ... I'm not sure if I can live much longer without Mr. T helping me out when I get lost.[/quote]

I don't know what Garmin offers, but TomTom even has some free voices you can download. I listened to a ton of them when I was last doing updates (since then I've gotten a new laptop and don't have the software for the gps installed on this machine). They're so funny.

[CatherineM]

If they have voices for mine, I want the computer voice from Star Trek.

[StColette]

Stay away from Navigon or at least the particular model Micah and I bought and then returned. It had some serious software glitches. They are normally a good product, but it seems the particular model we bought had some huge issues.


I like TomToms for the fact that you can do the Mapshare, which helps keep your maps updated, however, you do have to rely on others to update correctly.