2011 Expedition Navigation vs Garmin Nuvi

[rwinegar]

Picking up a new 2011 Expedition with navigation next week. Over the years I have grown so used to my trusty Garmin GPS. It has never failed me. How do the turning prompts, turning arrows, voices, etc on the Ford navigation compare with a Garmin GPS? Are turn prompts and turn arrows given well ahead of the actual turn? I've heard that the Ford navigation does not announce "recalculating" when deviating from the mapped route. Is this true?

Thanks.

 

[rwinegar]

Looks like I may have come to the wrong place for answers.

 

[smo0othride]

Picking up a new 2011 Expedition with navigation next week. Over the years I have grown so used to my trusty Garmin GPS. It has never failed me. How do the turning prompts, turning arrows, voices, etc on the Ford navigation compare with a Garmin GPS? Are turn prompts and turn arrows given well ahead of the actual turn? I've heard that the Ford navigation does not announce "recalculating" when deviating from the mapped route. Is this true?

Thanks.

I dont know about the recalculating issue, but I know I still use my garmin nuvi over my indash navigation. The nuvi is so much more user friendly and I think it has more features, like I'm not sure if the expedition nav system allows you to type the name of a place and then search by that name. Another thing I like about my nuvi is it lets you save random coordinates even if it's not on a street, and navigates u back to those coordinates.