This is my first gps I have ever owned. After long hours of research i found this unit to offer the features i wanted with a price I was willing to pay. On the first run out of the box, it acquired the GPS signal in less then 3 minutes. I have taken it on the road multiple times since then. Its Text to Speech feature works great with sometimes jerky but easy to understand street names. On my trips down the road it kept the gps signal no problem, the voice prompts were spoken in proper timing with multiple warnings when changing roads. One of the problems i noticed is that the Poi are limited to mostly restaurants , hotels, gas stations, and certain electronic stores. Also general attractions are limited. Though if your willing to typing locations manually this can easily be fixed. When using this device in a large city i found that the end destination is not exactly correct. Even with the built in poi, it seems to tell me i have arrived at my destination sometimes a 1/4 mile early. Sometimes it tells me to continue to drive even when i have reached my destination. This bug is not noticeable when using it on a long trip to a different city or state, but as far as accuracy down to the foot, it defiantly does not do that. The multimedia player on this device is good. It plays any normal format of video, audio, and pictures. The picture quality is good considering that this is a gps, not a dvd system. Over-all i highly recommend this system.