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"Kyle Boatright" wrote:

From my buddies at the airport to this newsgroup, there is a lot of interest
in the Garming 396. No doubt it is a fine system with great features.

Why don't I hear anyone talking about the AnywhereMap WX, which seems to
have a roughly equivalent feature set for $800-$1,000 less up front cost?

Thoughts?

Anyone own (or borrow) an AnywhereMap WX and care to comment?

KB


I would recommend a Google search, but here's my quick opinion:

For weather display, AWM is decent but not complete. For navigation,
AWM is decent by not complete. For portability, reliability, and ease
of use, AWM is fair to poor.

The Garmin 396 isn't perfect (can't stand that horizontal screen
orientation), but its features are much more complete and very well
implemented. Garmin's support is also outstanding. AWM support was
always very responsive, but the end result was usually, "I don't know
when that bug will be fixed," or "We don't know anything about that
problem," even though AWM staff would specifically respond to posts
about the problem on their own forums. I don't think that I have ever
seen more over-promising and under-delivering in my life than from the
AWM folks.

AWM also does not include auto-route street mapping, marine
capabilities, or XM audio capabilities, if any of that matters to you.



JKG