Garmin 250 3 5 Inch Portable Navigator

The Garmin Nuvi 295W is another coup for Garmin. The 295W provides a fresh view on a classic, well liked Garmin product. The Nuvi 295W has awful features such as Wi-Fi® connectivity, a 3 MP camera with auto-focus, dual orientation capability and a heap of more. With Wi-Fi you have full desktop web connectivity with an HTML browser for surfing the web in select coverage areas. You may check and send e-mail, including Hotmail®, G-mail®, AOL® mail, POP3 and IMAP. The software goes a step further to concede you to view email affixations of Microsoft® Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, PDF and JPG files. You may also search customer-rated points of interest (POIs), such as restaurants, hotels and more, using Google™ Local Search. Physical Specifications · Dimensions - 4.4"W x 2.3"H x.6"D (11.2 x5.8 x 1.5 cm) · Display - 3.55 inch diagonal / 480 x 272 pixel display with glass, dual-orientation, 65K colors, anti-glare resistive touch screen · Lightweight - 137 grams · Battery - rechargeable lithium-ion with up to four hour battery life · High-Sensitivity Receiver · Not Waterproof - don't drop it in the toilet The Nuvi 295W comes with elaborate City Navigator NT street maps for the U.S. and Canada. The maps include closely 6 million points of interest such as stores, restaurants, hotels, amusement venues, gas station, ATMs and much more. It likewise has a cityXplorer maps which provide the latest elaborate roads and points of interest for metropolitan areas. The most essential feature of any GPS is the capacity to speak street names so you do not have to take your eyes off the road to read the street name on the display. The Nuvi 295W comes with voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names to your destination. Additional Features · The Nuvi 295W has other helpful features like a calculator, stop watch, calendar, checklist and numerous more. · It comes with travel tools such as a JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter and current and 5-day weather forecasts. · It has photo navigation where you may download pictures from Garmin Connect Photos. · It is compatible with the free Garmin Garage where you may download habit vehicles and voices. · It has a distinctive 3 megapixel camera with auto-focus. · It will receive an optional microSD card for further and added maps and expanded storage. What's Included with the Purchase Nuvi 295W, Preloaded City Navigator NT for North America, Vehicle Suction Cup Mount. Vehicle Power Cable, USB Cable, Dashboard Disc, and Quick Start Manual For more data in regards to the Garmin Nuvi 295W, read the resource selective information at the end of this article. ----May 7, 2008For peace of mind on the go, nüvi 255 leads the way with voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions that speak street names and optional MSN® Direct to get you there on time and keep you informed. It's packed with millions of destinations and maps for North America or Europe. Like the rest of the compact nüvi 2x5-series, this portable navigator is priced right and ultra-easy to use. Navigate With Ease nüvi 255 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator® NT street maps, including a hefty points of interest (POIs) database with hotels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more. It even announces the name of exits and streets so you never have to take your eyes off the road. Simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, and nüvi takes you there with turn-by-turn voice directions, 2-D or 3-D maps and smooth map redraw rates as you navigate. Its digital elevation maps show you shaded contours at higher zoom levels, giving you a big picture of the surrounding terrain. In addition, nüvi 255 accepts habit points of interest (POIs), such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs. With HotFix® satellite prediction, nüvi calculates your position more quickly to get you there quicker. Take It With You Like the rest of the nüvi 2x5-series, nüvi 255 sports a sleek, slim design and fits comfortably in your pocket or purse. Its rechargeable lithium-ion battery makes it commodious for navigation by car or foot. With it is "Where Am I?" emergency locator, you always recognise your location. Simply tap the screen to get your precise latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest address and intersection, and the nearest hospitals, police stations and fuel stations. Go Beyond Navigation Navigation is just the beginning. nüvi 255 includes some travel tools, including JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. With photo navigation, you may download pictures from Garmin Connect™ Photos and navigate to them. The 255 is compatible with our free Garmin Garage™ where you may download animated vehicles that show your emplacement on the map. It likewise comes with Garmin Lock™, an anti-theft feature. Enhance your travel experience with optional plug-in microSD cards such as Garmin Travel Guides for elaborated selective information on attractions. Compare all Garmin nüvis Click the button beneath to compare by series, user type, and features. All nüvis come with elaborated NAVTEQ maps containing more than 6 million pre-loaded point of interest locations.

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308 of 309 humans found the following review helpful.
Don't compensate more, this has everything you need
By George Rausch
Let me set the scene for you: I arrive in Los Angeles at the airport, turn on my GPS scheme and instantaneously am ready to navigate. I then spend two days driving around Los Angeles not knowing where anything is located and haven't gotten lost once...

The nuvi 255, as in my review title, is everything you need. Don't spend more because you think you'll need to talk for navigation or that you want to connect to a heap of navigation service or whatsoever else they're selling. This is a small, FAST, device that you may without apparent effort carry with you when it isn't in your car. And folks, that's part of a portable GPS system: you may take it with you so it doesn't get stolen.

I will give the following heads-up. The primary time you calibrate the GPS system, it may take up to 10 MINUTES. Be patient, stand in a huge open field, and don't move the device. Just let it sit. After that primary setup, you'll be walking on sunshine. Second, charging the device is easy. All you need is a usual USB cable that is applied for most electronics. The downside, it doesn't show a progression bar on the screen as to when a charge is complete. Third, when you turn it on, make sure you have clear views of the sky from all directions. Otherwise, the scheme may not initialize properly. Plus, if you're in a city with tall buildings, you may be out of luck for getting signal (i.e. NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago). Normally, the difficultly comes from initially turning it on. After that, it's great.

This device is FAST in recalculating routes. Mere seconds and boom, you're back on track. No downtime whatsoever. This is genuinely amazing.

You are given the option of navigation as a pedestrian or in a car. That is genuinely outstanding if you're on foot. You may without apparent effort switch among the two.

NOW... my word of advice. SPEND THE MONEY to get the 255 with the "text-to-speech." When you're driving in traffic in an unfamiliar place, you don't want to have to constantly look over to read the street names on the device then find them on the street. It is worth the extra cash.

All-in-all, I would commend this to anybody and everyone. As I said to a friend today, it isn't many times that I buy a piece of electronics instrumentation and have my expected values met and surpassed. As I carry on to use it, new things carry on to amaze me.

140 of 142 people found the following review helpful.
Very nice entry-level GPS.
By Mathew D. Lowenstein
After spending a few weeks researching this and that, I decisive to go with the Nuvi 255. I would have liked a 255W, but just couldn't warrant the cost. Besides, the 255 screen is sufficient. I chose it over the 205 for the extra maps and text-to-speech, which is a genuinely nice function.

PROS:
The size seems little until you in truth mount it on your windshield. Then it's just right. And the GUI is very simple and straightforward. There are a lot of "aftermarket" vehicle icons that may be just dropped onto the unit. It charges comparatively speedily through a USB cord. I think with a little ingenuity, I'll be capable to mount it to my motorcycle bars too. This thing is half organizer/phone book, half Nav system, which since I don't have an I-Phone is in truth cool. It's outstanding to be competent to look up a phone number and call a restaurant without booting up my PC.

CONS:
Even even though there's 6 million POI, it's missing a good deal of surprising ones (a Walmart and a Lowes plaza, for example) that have been around for a couple of years. So to get there, you have to find something near them and that's a pain. Same with roads I KNOW are there, but not in this 2009 map software. Then there's the town names that seem questionable at times. My only other little gripes are that you can't change the text-to-speech voice...unless you want a lame elf voice or Death or something. And for some reason, mine doesn't want to charge if the unit is in use, which is kind of aggrivating.

VERDICT:
Seems solid, easy to use, and a genuinely decent product. Sometimes I recognise better than the direction engine (I'm sure you get that with any GPS), but if I didn't, I'd trust it. Seems to lack features of an upmodel unit, but for the money, I feel I've gotten a good value.

113 of 118 people found the following review helpful.
Job Well Done
By AC
I purchased the Nuvi 255 as a substitute for my Nuvi 350. There is not one thing faulty with the 350Garmin nüvi 350 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech. The 255Garmin Nuvi 255 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator has safety features I want which include "Where Am I" that gives your emplacement by street address, city, state, zip code, nearest intersection and coordinates. This is necessary in an emergency in a strange and/or unfamiliar location. Another safety feature is the display of the posted speed limit directly above your actual speed. This helps to keep away from tickets and reminds one when it comes to safe driving.

Other improvements include a more splendid clearer display, revised touch screen graphics, an arrow indicating direction of next turn and a TTS voice that sounds like a real person rather of an elocution professor.

The 255 likewise has a world clock, unit converter, calculator and photo
display.

In closing, I saved the best feature for last--the GPS function is fast, flawless and exact.

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