I was in RadioShack yesterday and there was a gentleman buying a few TomTom ONE units. I have been looking into getting a GPS unit. There was a lull in the checkout so I asked him how he likes the TomToms. He said he really liked them and they worked great unless you were in a large city like NYC, the buildings can block the signal but it comes right back.

At Amazon the TomTom ONE sells for $389. So with the $100 rebate your looking at $289, not too shabby.

The other units I had been comparing are the Garmin C330 or the Garmin C340.

The C330 is selling for $309 and the C340 is selling for $399. Apparently the biggest difference is that the C340 says the streets name in the instructions like “take left at Spring Street”. I guess that’s pretty cool but is it worth $90 ? The C330 seems to get rave reviews at Amazon.

The other low priced unit I was comparing is the Garmin StreetPilot i5 for $269. It’s hard enough to compare units sometime from the same manufacturer. It gets a little harder to compare the TomTom to the Garmin Units.

Either way it doesn’t look like you can go wrong with any of these units and they are seem god enough for those of us that need a unit 4-5 time/year. To be honest my current “co-pilot” isn’t the greates navigator in the world. A GPS unit can save my marriage, and $300 is a lot cheaper than a divorce !