Did you get one?
Spoke to a flying mate today, just sold his 296 for $900 on web, then bought 495 from Aeroshop for $1,890. Extremely happy with it, refresh rate much better, you don't realize until you see the difference including the panel page, 10 times more detail on the terrain page, voice prompts for terrain "terrain, terrain, pull up, pull up" same as 430's, plus screen MUCH brighter so much so that on half brightness seemed brighter than 296.