I've had both garmins that said street names, and ones that didn't. The one that said street names helped me no more than the one that didn't. You're basically paying an extra $50 for that feature.
I'm terrible with directions, but if the unit tells me to turn in 500ft, I get in the appropriate lane and prepare myself. The street names are irrelavant at 500ft since I can't read a tiny sign that far away anyhow. It's all about personal preferance.
I just returned a garmin 350 at costco. Orginally cost me $270. It featured bluetooth, TTS (speaking street names,) and an mp3 player, all of which were useless features to me. Went and bought the nuvi 200 for $153. I like this unit a lot more since it has an internal antenna, and i saved a lot of money.
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