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(More customer reviews)I had a garmin 205 in pearl white before I bought the Tom Tom ease in white also. I love the Garmin-esque simplicity with the "plan route" and "browse map" options on the start up menu. IMO i think that this unit is way better than the Garmin for a few reasons.
1. The ability to have a tomtom portal downloaded to your computer that prompts map updates, voices, etc. It reminds me of my nokia pc suite and I love it!
2. It has way more options that the garmin. (a) switching the keyboard to QWERTY which garmin does not have.(b) Celebrity voices downloads to add a little fun (c) Options to change the start up Images(I like this because I hated the butt ugly start up landscape image on the garmin). (d) I think the pixels and icon images are a lot better than the garmin which looks a bit cheap, I think i've said enough about the dreadful graphics on the garmin.
3. The map share/corrections community is awesome.
4. The Tom Tom comes with a USB charger, my ex-garmin didn't.
5. The attached mount and lock on the TOM TOM is priceless. Lord knows how many times my garmin mount got lost or fell off my windshield almost causing me an accident.
*Its like Tom Tom in general is like Mac; Young, modern and hip and The Garmin like microsoft; trying to be cool but still is old and stuffy:D
***In defense of the Garmin 205, perhaps there are more options and better graphics on the higher end models, but I bought that one specifically because I wanted a 3.5" screen GPS. I like my gadgets small and portable .
* In comparison to the garmin 205 and Tom Tom ease, I think the exterior of the garmin looks a lot better because of the shiny pearly finish. The extra shiny coat, makes dirt glide off easily unlike the tom tom where the finish is more matte. The hard plastic is microscopically more gritty, less aesthetically appealing and captures dirt more easily; like nail polish without a top-coat if you catch my drift.
*The garmin has a micro sd slot, tom tom doesn't. Well, to each his own. I don't miss this feature because I never downloaded anything.-In summary of my long-winded review, the Tom Tom ease is a better base model GPS. For the 3.5" screen lovers, looking for a simple, flexible, option-laden, cool, fashion forward GPS with a preference for white, Go for this.
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