Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought the Garmin Quest as a factory GPS system was not available on my car. Also for the fact that it costs about 1/3 of the price of a factory installed GPS system. Overall I am happy with the unit however for anyone looking to buy this unit these are just some things you should be aware of: 1) You cannot just depend on the voice prompts to guide you on your way, you need to also glance at the map. The reason is that it has a limited vocab for voice prompts so it can be confusing. For example many times it says keep left/right when it wants you to go straight. A couple of times I thought it wanted me to turn left when it said keep left. Thankfully it automatically recalculated the route. Answer: anytime it says keep left/right or turn left/right just glance at the map to truly understand where it wants you to go. 2) Similar to the above it doesnt have proper voice prompts for rotaries. If you were to take the second exit on a rotary, the system would say "in x feet keep left then turn right". Look at the map you will see what you are supposed to do. 3) The screen is small, especially if you want to pan the map looking at alternative routes while in the car. Thankfully it does zoom into an intersection so you can see the lay of the land when you are coming to a turn. 4) I was driving in Manhattan and because of all the tall buildings it would have a hard time locking on to my position. Often it would announce "lost satellite reception". I ended up zooming into the map with the proposed route and started guiding myself as it lost my location for several minutes. It works much better in the suburbs. 5) The routing system was a bit weird. Even though I set the system to take me from Manhattan to Long Island on the "fastest route" it insisted on taking me through the small streets of Brooklyn instead of the highway. Tweaking the settings from best route (spends more time calculating the route) to quickest calculation (least time spent calculating the route) while still retaining the get me there on the "fastest route" setting finally got me using the highways. 6) So far the mapping has been pretty accurate except for once in Boston it asked me to take a left when there was a no left turn sign. Still to see how often map updates will be made available. New construction will throw the device off. 7) The directory of points of interest is very good. We were able to find all the restaurants we were looking for in New York (it also had their phone numbers so we were able to make reservations). Overall the device does work and does get you there. It can be a little confusing thats all. It is easy to use and enter data, easier than the Garmin streetpilot. As for losing satellite reception I am sure all small units like this would suffer the same problem. (FYI factory car based systems usually predict your position even if they lose satellite reception (they call it dead reckoning) - but they are much more expensive). The size is great we walked the streets of New York and it took us where wanted to go (you can set it to optimize routes for pedestrian vs car - this way it ignores one way streets). Voice prompts only work in the car not when you are walking as the speaker is built into the cigarette lighter plug. Still if I had to compare it to a factory car based GPS system I would say its 85% of the product for 30% of the money. Good value!