I wanted free traffic, so I wound up with another Garmin. I decided that I liked the bluetooth. I didn't want another unit that would have the same hardware as the 265WTs that gave me so much trouble, so I would up buying the 1490T.
It has a bicycle mode, so when I'm cycling across the country, I won't get lost
The voice synthesis isn't quite as bad as the 265Wt, but it is still crude.
After leaving it plugged in to the unswitched cigarette lighter on my rental car today while at work, I turned it on and the screen was incredibly dim. It was difficult to tell if it was on or not. When I unplugged it, the screen brightness was normal. I tried everything I could think of (no manual, no support online for this model) and finally figured out a work-around. It somehow set itself to 1% brightness, but it was difficult to tell because it was so dim. I was able to increase the brightness in 10% increments, so it's now OK at 51% brightness on car power and 50% on internal power.
For those of you trying to decide what to buy, I recommend against Garmin. Three bad units out of sample size of three is really bad.
