TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Review: Dash Express GPS

Dash Express has changed the way I commute. Rather than scouting for good restaurants to take a date or dive bars to take the posse, I just hop in my car and find something directly on the Dash Express in seconds.

I have a basic TomTom, and it works well, but the Dash Express sounds great. The single most annoying thing about the TomTom is how it handles POI searches. When you search for, say, a BJs brewery and restaurant, it doesn’t tell you where each of them is located — it just lists them. To see where they are, you must set it as your destination, and if it wasn’t the one you were looking for, you must go through the same process again.

The Dash Express, though, hooks into Yahoo Local listings, so you have much more POI than other GPS units (which tend to be very incomplete), and even better, you can see each listing’s rating right on the Dash Express. That’s really cool.

I’ll leave the rest of the review to you, though. Stamatiou gives an excellent review, and shows both the Dash Express’s high points and where it is lacking.