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Originally Posted by z80  Here are some good reasons.
(a) the DVD Video player function.
(b) the MP3 player function.
(c) the bluetooth phone function.
(d) the music quietens when the mobile phone rings
(d) the music quietens when the GPS announces directions
(e) it has an external GPS aerial as standard
(f) it is much more difficult to steal
(g) it is intergrated with the ambient lighting in the car
(h) it integrates with steering wheel controls
(i) it has a reversing camera feature
(j) unit will keep accurately mapping when GPS signal lost due to inbuilt gyro etc.
(k) Ipod interface
if I still had my Tom Tom XL and had to purchase all those items seperately i would have a much less elegant solution.
For perhaps not that much less money.
I didn't want suction cups on my windscreen and wires all over the dash...
My unit is the Ecllipse AVN6000 (aka Fujitsu Ten) AVN6000 | Products | Eclipse
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Argh! Mine hardly has those features! Mine's a VDO Dayton that came factory with the car. I agree with point j - but apparently there are portable GPS now with gyros so that advantage is lessened (even with all the other additional inputs to help.) It has a CD (not DVD) drive, but I think the only thing I can put in there is the Nav disc.
I guess the only "features" I get are d), e), f), g), j). I didn't realise a GPS unit would necessarily come with a reversing camera feature. I'm also assuming that an external antenna gives better reception, right?