I bought my wife a Garmin Nuvi and made sure to get the wide-screen version. Later I realized that the wide-screen actually has limited benefit since on the screen the "car" stays in the middle, and the direction of travel tends to be from the top of the screen to the bottom of the screen - that's the short dimension. All the stuff off to the sides (the wide dimension) is usually fairly unimportant to us.

Other than that silliness, it has done everything she needed it to do.

It is a lower-end model - maybe the 200W or 250W or something like that. I don't think she needed the extra features of the higher end models (play music, display pictures, ...). It does give verbal directions, but it does not speak the street names - that is one feature I think we wish it did have.