Garmin - nuvi 1690 Review

Okay, we have nicknamed this 'GLADoS' after the evil computer from Portal.

It does really well once it's up and running, but if you don't turn it on the same place you turned it off, it can take upwards of ten minutes to locate you.

It can only be used in a car. Try to use it while walking and the map spins like a gyroscope. You can't even use it as a map because it's constantly rotating. 

Once, in the rain, it told me to take a right hand turn onto a one-way road. Thankfully it was nighttime and I was not killed.

It has toll avoidance- kinda. There's no intelligence there whatsoever. I was driving from Cleveland, Ohio, to Bangor, Maine, and I told it to avoid toll roads. Instead of telling me to get off at an exit, drive ten miles on a back road, and get back on the highway, it told me to drive a few hundred miles west, then North around the great lakes, and up into Maine through Canada. This would add about three days to a 15 hour drive.