Can we collectively realize that Sygic isn't the only voice navigation solution available? There's at least two solid ones: Mappero, and Navit. I just installed Navit using an install script from the thread discussing the Navit port on the N900, it works really well. Both use eSpeak, which like most open source projects, is rather flexible. In Mappero, you can even replace the voice files used with your own easily, and as far as I know, you should be able to do the same to eSpeak as a whole, thus changing Navit's voice guidance. (In a quiet room eSpeak will sound rather loud, but when you're driving it won't be noticeably loud. The ONLY issue is that you have to work a little to download the maps, and the voice navigation volume from eSpeak, near as I can tell, does not change with your N900's volume settings. Either it's on in the General profile, or it's off in the silent. [I don't use more than the two stock profiles - never needed more.])

It used to be that I'd recommend Navit over Mappero because it had both voice AND an internal routing engine. HOWEVER, I just saw a thing called "MoNav routing daemon" in FApMan (in Devel only for now), which basically is just that - a routing engine, so that all those programs that needed to go online to route, can now be written to use MoNav instead.... NOT suggesting you download this RIGHT now, but since Navit isn't being as actively developed as Mappero, this is extremely promising, and I would wager in months at the latest, possibly in days, we'll see the 10-or-so available mapping/navigation programs on the N900 using it (since most already use Open Street Map project maps for their mapping).

I'm guessing 6-3 months ago, users of the N900 could turn to Sygic because nothing better did exist back then, and the open source stuff wasn't up to par. But I would say it is, by now.

Anyway, I won't type up a full opinion about advantages of a Desire or an N900, but for the maps themselves, you don't even have to pay anything at this point. Just install Mappero, or dig up the thread and install Navit, and you're set.

(Okay, I can understand how I type "not" instead of now [muscle memory for 'not' more ingrained then for 'now'], but how the hell do I manage to type "great" when I meant to type "thread"?)