I've switched over to gmaps for navigation on my android phone, I had a 2-3 year old Garmin, which was decent, but the maps were outdated and it was going to cost $90 to update them. So I bought an android phone instead! The speaker quality is worse than the dedicated GPS, but overall, the functionality of a smart phone is sooo much better.
With my dedicated GPS, I had to know exactly where I was going, know the spelling, etc. With my phone, it will spell correct for hard to spell city names, give me suggestions, or even let me easily search for restaurants/points of interest/etc near where I currently am, and read reviews and go to the website to check out menus and such, all with relative ease. This is a big leap in quality over a standard GPS.
Also, its a lot more flexible, I can simply type "target" or "gas" or "food" and I will get a bunch of results. You can do this to an extend on a GPS, but my phone has a much better interface for it.
Sorry if that rant made me look like a google salesman, but smartphone > GPS.
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