GPS Comparison - Can It Be Done
Is it really possible to compare different GPS models and come up with any reasonable conclusions? There are certainly plenty of reviews that you can read online, so you'd think it would be easy to decide which is the best GPS. You'll even find a plethora of charts comparing the attributes of different models. What you have to realize, though, is that the majority of the reviews and comparisons you will find are the result of someone's opinion rather than cold, hard facts.
The facts are easy to compare, and you can make these comparisons yourself. Things like the size of the screen, and whether a unit has touch screen capabilities, text-to-talk, maps of the U.S. and Europe, Bluetooth, and other technologies are easy to put side by side and compare. If you take a minute to stop and make a list of the various features you want in the GPS you buy, you'll easily be able to compare your list to the attributes of different models until you find one or more that match. However, that still may not narrow the choice down a whole lot, because there will probably be several different models that meet all of your factual qualifications.
The comparison gets a little trickier, however, when you start looking at less factual qualities. All you have to do is read a cross-section of online customer reviews, and you'll be able to see that the opinions vary widely. What one person considers a bright, clear display might be labeled hard-to-see and fuzzy to someone else. Everyone has their own ideas about what they're seeing and using, and the more of these varying opinions you read, the more confusing the comparison process will become.
What you can do from reading these reviews is form some general consensus of opinion based on what the majority of the people are saying. In other words, you can compare the comments of one reviewer to those of another. If enough people agree on certain points, then it's probably all right to believe what they are saying. Some of the reviewers who have actually owned more than one brand or model will give you comparisons between the different models, but, once again, these comparisons are only based on their opinions.
Doing comparisons these days is much harder than it used to be. For example, back in the early days of TV, there were a handful of brands. Each brand used a certain type of technology. If you saw your neighbor's Sylvania and really liked the picture quality and other features about it, you would be able to go to the store to buy your own Sylvania. All you'd have to choose is the size of the picture tube and the type of cabinet you wanted, because you knew you'd be getting a TV that would be very similar in quality to the one you'd liked at your neighbor's.
With the GPS of today, however, this isn't the case. There are many different brands, and within each brand there are a variety of different lines. These lines of products are even broken down farther into several different models in each line. You'd have to be some kind of a genius to be able to compare all of the brands, lines, and models in order to come up with the perfect GPS. In this way, comparisons just aren't as easy to do as they used to be.
Since it isn't easy to compare non-tangible attributes any more, you're pretty much back to making a list of the actual features you're looking for and looking for models that match. Trying to compare at any other level is going to boggle your mind and leave you even more confused than you were in the beginning.
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