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Haven't got it on my Sprint yet, but I spent a week driving around Montana with it a couple of weeks ago in a rental car, and it worked great. Accuracy and directions were excellent. Screen is very readable in full sun, the Quest should work fine just checking the screen for directions if you don't want to bother hooking up an earphone setup to listen to the audio directions. But if you ride often in heavy traffic, an earphone setup would be safer, keeping your eyes on the road and cages.
I was debating between getting the Quest, which requires loading maps from a CD, or the Quest 2, which has the whole US preloaded (for about $200 more). I decided to save the 200 clams and was pleasantly surprised to find that I could load the entire Northwest -- AK,BC,WA,OR,ID,MT into the 115 MB memory. Loading and changing maps is easy, just takes a few minutes.
As others have said, if you plan a lot of cross country riding across the whole US, get the Quest 2; otherwise, you should be able to fit all the maps you need for a given trip into the Quest. It is the big cities that take up a lot of memory, and I try to stay out of those as much as possible when touring!
One downside is no Garmin mapping software yet for the best computers -- Macs. So for now Mac only owners might prefer the Quest 2. But I just run the Garmin software on my old Windows laptop.
Have a RAM mount on order that screws neatly onto the clutch bracket -- from GPScity.com. Looking forward to my first road trip with the Quest in a few weeks up to Dawson City, Yukon, and old gold rush town on the Yukon River. OK, so there are only about 3 turns to make on that 900 mile ride, and I could probably do it blindfolded, but up in the Yukon and BC it is nice to always know how far away the next gas is. :-D
P.S. The Alaska Highway -- America's Autobahn
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