The Garmin ones do look quite nice, especially the
fancy ones, but the pronunciation of road names like A5132 would annoy me constantly - the Garmins pronounce that "Ay five thousand one hundred thirty-two", which is just
wrong. They do have nice map displays though, although still not as clear as my old (and broken)
Navman S50.
Can't do the phone thing either, as I don't have a nice phone
:(
Consensus seems to be TomTom (and from what I've been reading, the
GO LIVE 1000 appears to be well-liked) so I'll give it a go - maybe there's an option to change the map colour scheme, or maybe I'll (!) just get used to it.