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• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 23 reviews

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, 6.1 oz

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• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 4 reviews

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, 6.1 oz

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  3.0 stars Good
• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 24 reviews

The Bottom Line: The Sony NV-U83T is a seemingly attractive in-car GPS with a large display and useful navigation features, but it shows its ugly side with poor directions and subpar performance.

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, Street name announcement, 8.8 oz

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  3.0 stars Good
• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 27 reviews

The Bottom Line: The impressively equipped Pioneer Avic-D3 offers an array of advanced navigation and media playback functions, but the system's poor hardware design limits its usability.

Specs: In-dash, LCD monitor, Navigation system with DVD player and LCD monitor, IPod compatible, DVD player, LCD display, GPS navigation system, CD, DVD, CD-R, CD-RW

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  3.0 stars Good
• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 47 reviews

The Bottom Line: With an improved display and the addition of text-to-speech functionality, the Mio DigiWalker C230 is a solid and affordable entry-level portable navigation system for GPS newbies.

Specs: 20 channel, Automotive, Navigation instructions, Street name announcement, 5.1 oz

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The Bottom Line: The Garmin Nuvi 500 is a satisfactory multimode GPS, but serious boaters and outdoor enthusiasts should consider dedicated devices.

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, 7.6 oz

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  3.5 stars Very good
• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 54 reviews

The Bottom Line: Sporting a sleeker design and interface, the affordable Magellan Maestro series offers drivers an accurate in-car GPS device with useful trip information, thanks to its partnership with AAA.

Specs: 20 channel, Automotive, Navigation instructions, 8.5 oz

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  3.0 stars Good
• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 42 reviews

The Bottom Line: The Magellan Maestro 3100 is an affordable, simple, and basic portable navigation system for first-time buyers, but you can get better performance from other similar systems.

Specs: 20 channel, Automotive, Navigation instructions, 6.5 oz

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• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 18 reviews

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, 7.3 oz

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  4.5 stars Spectacular
• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 15 reviews

The Bottom Line: Aside from some usability niggles resulting from its compact size, the JVC KD-NX5000 offers about as many car tech features per square foot as you can get.

Specs: 15 channel, Automotive, Navigation instructions

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• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 3 reviews

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, Street name announcement, 6.7 oz

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• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 22 reviews

The Bottom Line: Despite ease of use and an affordable price tag, the entry-level Magellan RoadMate 1200 portable navigation system suffers from various performance issues.

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, Warnings, 4.94 oz

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  3.0 stars Good
• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 2 reviews

The Bottom Line: The new Navigon 2100 Max features some nice additions, including a larger screen and advanced lane guidance, but the portable navigation device is still tripped up by sluggish performance.

Specs: Automotive, 5.6 oz

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• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 67 reviews

The Bottom Line: The flagship model of the Garmin c series, the StreetPilot c340 offers text-to-speech functionality and traffic information.

Specs: 12 channel, Automotive, Warnings, Navigation instructions, Street name announcement, 9.5 oz

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  3.0 stars Good
• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 11 reviews

The Bottom Line: Despite a sleek design and an attractive feature set, the HP iPaq 310 Travel Companion shows an ugly side with inaccurate route recalculations and poor voice directions that makes us say pass for now.

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, 6.6 oz

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  3.0 stars Good
• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 11 reviews

The Bottom Line: With a built-in navigation system and a decent range of media playback options, the Kenwood DNX7100 cannot be faulted for its breadth of features, but the system is let down by its counterintuitive media-selection interface.

Specs: In-dash, LCD monitor, Navigation system with DVD player, LCD monitor and radio, IPod compatible, Rear-facing camera capability, 50 Watts x 4, In-dash unit integrated, Amplifier, DVD player, LCD display, Radio tuner, GPS navigation system

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  3.5 stars Very good
• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 116 reviews

The Bottom Line: For early adopters, the TomTom GO 910 is the GPS gadget du jour, offering the latest and greatest in portable navigation systems. That said, we wish it had a better mounting system and a more up-to-date POI database.

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, 12 oz

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  3.5 stars Very good
• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 48 reviews

The Bottom Line: The Magellan RoadMate 2200T packs some of the latest navigation features into a nice, sleek, and affordable package.

Specs: 20 channel, Automotive, Navigation instructions, 7.8 oz

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• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 2 reviews

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, Street name announcement, 6.6 oz

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  4.0 stars Excellent
• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 22 reviews

The Bottom Line: The Pioneer AVIC Z-1 is an impressive all-in-one aftermarket head unit incorporating most of today's in-car technology features. Despite a few usability glitches, it is a competitively priced car tech package.

Specs: 8 channel, Automotive, Warnings, Navigation instructions

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• Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1 review

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, Street name announcement, Voice command recognition, 5.2 oz

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• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 2 reviews

The Bottom Line: The Panasonic Strada CN-NVD905U is a stylish, user-friendly entrant to the in-dash navigation market. It delivers decent GPS navigation and media playback, but doesn't raise the bar in either department.

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions

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• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 42 reviews

Specs: Automotive, Navigation instructions, 6.1 oz

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