Post your GPS names

If you really need a name, why not just call it whatever voice you listen too, like Karen, Jill, Jack, or whatever. I have finally settled on Karen. Her voice fits my ears much better than the others.

But eventually, every piece of electronics becomes a FRED...as in Freaking Retarded Electronic Device.

She's Minnie (garMIN of course.) I've only had her about a week and she hasn't cussed me out yet, so we seem to be getting along well. (She does complain "recalculating" a lot!)

Sharon

Is it my imagination or is there a slight sarcastic tone in that "recalculating" comment? My wife notices it too and likes to say "recalculating" after she does only with a bit more sarcasm to make us both laugh. I think we have our voice set on Karen but have no name other than "She" for the unit. I think there was an H. Rider Haggard novel in which the character was known as Ayesha, "She Who Must be Obeyed." I think that would be too hard to say but would be appropriate. My mom and dad call there C340 Jill after the voice. My mom, in her 80s, always says, "How does she know all of that?"

Hey Sharon, I love Minnie. That is a great name for your GPS.

BB3

re: "She Who Must be Obeyed."

Abbreviate - cut it to "she-who"...

All the names listed sound english. Hasn't anyone noticed that the female voice on the nuvi 350 clearly does not speak english. Her emphasis is on the wrong syllable for a lot of common words like numbers. One street name that was Oak Dr. was given as Oak Doctor. Is she from India?

I just named mine "Damnit" for everytime I'm not listening to it and miss a turn...

I like it. She Who. Shehu.

BB3

For obvious reasons, my wife named our GPS Hillary because she says the female voice gets angry when she has to recalculate.------Earl Leeson

I, at first, was going to call my c530 Garmina. My wife did not care for that name so she christened her Gina. Since I had problems and had to return my original, my wife has named my new c530 Regina.

That is the name for the British female voice of my 2720, so that's what I call it.

I call my nuvi360 Silly... It seems to get confused when I get off of the road (parking lots and such) and it comes up with some really creative / convoluted ways to get me back on track. So it seems that Silly is appropriate.

Jason

I keep mine on the British accent and its like my fantasy crush, Mary Poppins, is right there to guide me on adventures. Now if it only would sing "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".

I have been calling my c330 Paula after my first wife. She was aways telling me what to do too!

I call mine Heather. When I first got it my wife started calling it Betty. I said no way. Ever since then, she has been Heather.

Betty, ummm....ugly betty would be even worse.

I decided to not have a name for it, cause I don't want to get emotionally attached to it...lol.

My Lady Friend's 11 year old Grandson named my unit Lila about 2 weeks after I got it a year ago ! I was always adjusting it , resetting it, trying different things and "Lila" was BZ telling me what to do ! Anyway, her grandson out of the clear blue sky said "Doesn't Lila ever shut up " - That's been her name since !

Ironically, I called it TomTom. I share my GPS with my family and for some reason, it seems easier for them to pronounce TomTom rather than Garmin or Nuvi.

When it doesn't work the way they want it to, they like to call it Dumb Dumb. =)

But when I talk to her, I do call her Jill.

I call mine a Garmin C550. I would like to call it a Garmin Nuvi660 but I can't afford it..

My 10 year old daughter hates mine. She always tells me to shut it off. Sometimes I go the route that it takes me, even though it isn't the best route and she tells me that I am dumb for listening to it rather then to her...lol.

Mine is a Magellan, so I call it "Maggie".

I am waiting the delivery of my nuvi680. I think I will call her "Miss Moneybags". I could not think of the James Bond female that Bond mixes with in his films. I will most likely change the name after I get her installed.

...'cause she's always on the move.

I call mine Elly.

There's a neighbor of mine who's name is Elly and she's always crabbing and nagging about something!

Pretty good name for my 7200 I'd say!

We call ours Geeps (for GPS). We've called all of ours this - it's easier than coming up with a new name each time we get a new model.

We've had Garmin GPS since they first came out, being boaters on Lake Erie. None of them spoke and we never had a name for them, though, till we got an iQue 3600. Only one voice, and she became Carmen the Garmin.
Gave that one to our daughter in college, and got a C550 earlier this month. Didn't want another Carmen, so we went male, and since my wife loves listening to clients from the U.K. with our travel biz, we went with the U.K. male and named him Garrett the Garmin.

My first GPS unit was a Garmin Street Pilot III that squawked whenever it became "confused" by me making a a move that it didn't recognise or like.

This lead to her being named, respectfully, "Gracie" after the late, and darling, Gracie Allen of Burns and Allen fame.

Since then I've moved up to a Garmin 2720 and although the female voices are much more softer sounding, she's still "Gracie" to me.

Jim

Her name was "Moneypenny"

Are you thinking of Miss Moneypenny? (M's sec'y.)

My brother called his Garmin "Gwendolyn." He and I both use the British voice, so I call mine Cecily.

Gwendolyn and Cecily are the Pigeon Sisters of The Odd Couple fame, but very few people remember that Neil Simon borrowed those names from the two young women in "The Importance of Being Ernest" by Oscar Wilde.

Hello to all...I'm brand new here!

'Maggie'...Our Garmin Street Pilot 7200

Hey folks, how about the Garminator (for Garmin of course), but then it will never say "I'll be back" or "Who's your daddy and what does he do?"

Really I did not have a name, but I got into the dicussion and just thought of it!

My 7 yr old grandaughter called the C330 "the lady in the box" which became "LIBBY".

FANG, as in the old Soupie Sails show. I kind of grunt like Fang alot, anyways. Jake

My GPS got no name but my 4yrs. old daughter call it the The Talking Map.

Gary

So I can say "Yes, Gary, Yes" as he navigates. - From Team America

Daughter calls it, "That dumb GPS". She hates that I will follow the route, even though we both know it isn't the best route. She says, "Computers aren't as smart as we are, but you still listen to it, so that makes you dumb"

My wife says that to me asainfire, not my daughter.

Not very original, but we settled on Jill's voice and eventually the name stuck. I was going to have it speak German to me (which, considering I don't understand German, would have defeated the purpose until I either learned it, or gave up and changed the language) in which case 'she' would most likely have been Brunhilde.

Jill. How very unoriginal.

The female voice giving me instruction on my Bluetooth-enabled car stereo/speaker phone is "Cam." Short for Camry, Cammie, Cameron, whatever.

Ours is Emma, because of the British accent.

this is actually short for the Bi**hing betty, she is always holloring at me.

I use the English "Dan" voice and my wife calls him Basil after the John Cleese character in Fawlty Towers which ran on the BBC years ago. Hilarious show by the way.

Greta for short. My daughter named it. I bought one for my sister in law (always lost) hers is called Tilly. (c340)

My son calls it Dady' toy.

Carmin.

Brings a fairly nice image to mind when saying it...

I have been considering calling mine " Miss Poi".

The voice is Jill, so her name is Jill. The way she gets sometimes when I don't follow her route, I would be afaid to call her anything else.

My mother-in-law is a retired school secretary and she kept calling it a GPA because she has that acronym burned into her brain(Grade Point Average) from her years working in the school system. So my wife and I call it our GPA now.