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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

My 10 year old Garmin GPS is dying, and not something I will trust for a road trip so I needed a newer version. 10 years in GPS is like 10 years with smart phones. It has lots more features.

I bought, the old Garmin 1490 at a local store. Their web site says they are still there, but the phone numbers are all out of service. Another victim of Amazon. So I started looking for model information to see what was perfect for me. Of course is is hard to ignore Amazon for that type of item. I figured out what I wanted from Amazon but it was going to take a week to get it from a third party reseller. So I checked with the local Best Buy. They had it in stock and had free shipping. I could drive the 8 miles and fight the Best Buy buying experience, or have it shipped to me. Free shipping was the clincher. I order it at 11:30 and it was delivered at 3:30 the same day. In the end it was 10 bucks more than the Amazon price, but I had it now and on my recent trip to Montgomery, Al and back it worked great and it has many features that are way better then the old one. It connects via Bluetooth to my phone so Waze and GPS info is added to the GPS.

So confused. You bought a stand-alone GPS for driving somewhere?