Taking a weird route to the track this weekend that requires an assload of turns. I've got GPS on the phone, but that requires looking at the phone while driving.
I bought a Garmin on the way home tonight but haven't taken it out of the box yet.
I could get a talking GPS app, but how does that work if I want to listen to music?
Google maps turn-by-turn is a free app and it talks. I have it on an Android and it's decent.
My wife has the mapquest app on her iphone and that one's damn good as well. The female voice is a little bossy on it, though. 
What about the whole music thing?
You know they have a KITT Garmin voice now? 
EastCoastMojo wrote: You know they have a KITT Garmin voice now?
Wow.
For the music thing. When listening to music on the phone the directions will interrupt the music for a second and then the music will resume.
Awesome...I may take the garmin back.
For what it's worth, I still love my Garmin.
We use the co-pilot live app for Droid. As with others, it will interrupt the music ( pandora or sometimes audio books) when directions are announced.
One nice thing about co-pilot is you can program a route on your computer ahead of time and load it onto the phone for when you want to take a specific route that may not be intuitively direct.
gamby wrote: Google maps turn-by-turn is a free app and it talks. I have it on an Android and it's decent. My wife has the mapquest app on her iphone and that one's damn good as well. The female voice is a little bossy on it, though.
This.
Worked great when we went to Nashville last year, only had one address screw up, where we manually entered the address and it took us about 3/4 of a mile away from where we were trying to go.
Other than that, it's been good.
My Garmin is ok most of the time but a little wierd picking routes some times. My maps (those paper things) often show me a better way.
I use the free Google directions app on my Droid X. Works really well and I don't have any extra E36 M3 to carry around except a phone charger. GPS + display on all the time == dead battery in about an hour otherwise.
No help, but slightly related: I have a TomTom. It gives voice directions. You can download a ton of different voices. Simpsons, Star Wars, celebrities, etc. Some free, some cost. I happen to have Juan Pablo Montoya as the voice on my GPS. But I'm thinking of changing it, in case he directs me into a jet dryer.
I use mapquest on my iphone. Its free. If I am listening to music from the phone as well, it just turns briefly silences/turns down the music for each voice direction, then the music resumes. I have a dash mount for it.
I would use google, but it doesn't talk to you on the iphone.
Something interesting I've noticed using google navigation on my android phone is that if you plot the exact same driving directions in google maps it may give you an entirely different route.
I'm a big fan of Google Maps navigation as well. I do keep trying Waze, as I like the concept, but it's not as polished as Google. I also have a ClarionMiND, which we'll use on longer trips, so we don't have to swap phones to let the passenger text or Facebook when we swap drivers.
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