Everything that it says it does, it does. Wonderful! We bought a Magellan 4250 before and it was slow, hard to use, and if we wanted to check out POI's we had to cancel our route first. Not user friendly at all. But the new Sony is everything we need and lives up to our expectations of a GPS system.
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on the plus:
br /-very short boot time (almost instantaneous)
br /-excellent screen
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br /on the minus:
br /-on occasion the suggested route is not optimal
br /-the way it handles the Favorite Destinations:
br / . - you can only set 4 favorites
br / . - if you need to deal with more than 4, your only options are to:
br / . . - search in a list of recent destinations (but these can not be renamed - so you need to remember the address!!!)
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br / . . - start the search from the beginning every time
br /-the option to "Save This Location" does not save the actual address, it is meant to be used as a phonebook entry, which can be confusing the first time you use it.
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br /As a side note, with Garmin 650 you can rename as many of your previous destinations as you want, making it a lot easier to find a place that you visited.
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This one is really great!
br /I used TT and Garmin.
br /Now, I have Garmin 5000 which is 5.2" screen.
br /But, this new Sony high-end gps is much better than others.
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br /Bluetooth works fine.
br /Choosing map color.
br /Speaker is good.
br /Nice finishing!

Just bought this Sony GPS and I have tested it and it is awesome. Sony is the best that I have seen, everything works perfect as stated. Watch out Garmin!

This GPS, overall, is a guite solid, and works as intended. My only gripe is far is the route the GPS calculates. One really needs to review the path because the route may not be as efficient.
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br /As an example, I planned a trip from New Jersey to West Florida. At north Richmond, the GPS calculates a path South 95 to 295, then back to South 64/95. Why didn't it just continue South 95? That's over 10+ miles to take that route.
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br /Bottom line, be sure to check the route and add some intermediate destinations to force the GPS to follow your route.
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br /New rating: *** (3 star)
br /Update: I lowered the rating because I'm just not that happy with the routes the gps calculates; it may take local roads when there are interstates in the same path. Why is that a problem? Comparing the gps route to my route, I can end up with the shorter time. Some have commented that the gps calculates also on historical traffic patterns. From my experiments, I just don't think so. Maybe I'm being too critical, but I was under the impression the gps would know some of the 'obvious' routes.
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br /Again, check the gps routes and test yourself.