C530 vs Nuvi 200

I use to have the 530 and now the nuvi 350. Here are my own personal opinions...

Nuvi
1) Better size, easier to take with you
2) able to view coordinates and altitude (not sure about the 200 though)

C530
1) better antiglare screen
2) better sound

My coworker wanted one and I told her if she didn't care about the size, go with the C550 (that is the one that she was looking at vs the nuvi350). The nuvi had the travel kit (which she didn't care about) and the nuvi had the ability to view altitude and coordinates, which she really didn't care much about either. She got the C550 and is very happy with it.

You can even hack C530 to have text-to-speech.

Yeap, I modified (better then hacking...lol) my C530 to do TTS.

Thanks a lot for the comments
I have read Garmin has disabled the hack in the new versions. Can I downgrade somehow?

Yes, you can, but forgot where you can download it from, MM told us where. Do a search, cause I can't remember.

Hello, I was just looking at your response and I would definitely like to know how to hack the unit so it will have the text-to-speech option.

Please email me back.

It is on this page, however, just as a warning, it may affect your GPSr in unintented ways. Just a disclaimer. It worked for me, but I have heard where it didn't work for others.

http://geepeeex.googlepages.com/text2speech

Go here ...

http://gpsinformation.org/perry/

Scroll down until you see the folder for your model/family, click on the folder and you will see the various versions of the firmware.

Download the one you want and run it.

Displaying the coordinates and altitude is one of the main features I felt the Cxxx were missing The other one IMHO is a better detour system, e.g., like Magellan's. On a side note, I had used a Nuvi 350 for a day and I wasn't impressed by the TTS feature.

After quite a bit of research, I have found that YES, the Nuvi 200 can report and route to a specific coordinate. Needless to say, I ordered a Nuvi 200.

Thanks again to everyone. I hope I won't get disappointed by the screen
I'll keep you updated

I bet if you used it for awhile, vs the non tts voice, you would reconsider that option. however, I hope that you enjoy the 200 and I am glad that you found out that you can input coordinates.

So it finally arrived (from Amazon.com, Dallas warehouse):

For reference, the version numbers are:

SW: 2.60
Audio: 2.20
GPS: 2.10b
City Navigator Lower 48 States NT 2008

I guess I'll upgrade it to the latest version now... (3.40)