Garmin GPS

I know I'm typing stuff that everyone else has known for years, but I got my Garmin car GPS today, haven't even taken it off the property yet and I'm already very impressed. The GUI is exceptionally smooth and easy to figure out, the online registration and map updating worked without a hitch (though I must admit that I'd already installed the Garmin driver in my web browser for linking to my hiking GPS), I can't even fathom that they seem to have every damned dinky little dirt road and address on those roads on the continent in there (I added a few people's addresses to "favorites", bluetooth pairing worked trivially (my first time even touching bluetooth).

The major selling point for me was POIs and the thing knows more about what's within 5 miles of my house than I do. OK, that's not too hard given my level of knowledge, but it's still cool. And I haven't even started to load 3rd party POIs yet.

I don't know if I'll ever use some of the gunk like the city Navigator add-on maps for exploring major cities on foot, but it's nice that they're there. Maybe it would help in London some day.