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Recently, a leading tech publication has chosen five of the best GPS navigators in the market, and 4 out of the 5 gadgets were Garmin devices. Laymen and experts all agree that Garmin presently gives rise to the best GPS navigators in the market. So if you are in the market buying goods for one, you can't go wrong with this brand.
Even when you have chosen the brand, making a final choice may still be rather a daunting task ask Garmin formulates a wide range of navigators. For me, I am always for the lookout for a product that gives me the best value for my money. I look for a product that gives me what I need without all the unnecessary bell's and whistles. After a heap of research, I at long last settled for the Garmin Nuvi 255W. Here is a quick look at what I got.
First of all, the price was right. At the time of writing, it costs around $180 a piece, which is as much as I would spend for a navigation gadget. Despite it is price, it does come with a wide array of features. The 255W is so much more than a GPS device. With just a click of a button, you may find the nearest gas station, restaurant, or mall and find the shortest route to get there. Finding the best route tow reach your destination all the time will aid you save time, energy and money.
You would think that a GPS device of this price would get you a little 3.5" screen. The Garmin Nuvi 255W has a big 4.3-inch touch screen that displays very clear images even in bright sunlight. The huge screen makes it much more comfortable to view, in particular while you are driving. It likewise has 6 million point of interests and comes with maps of the USA (including Alaska, and Hawaii), Canada and various more. The Garmin Nuvi 255W likewise incorporates galore functions that were once only found in more pricey navigators. It comes with text-to-speech functions, bicycle modes, effigy viewer, currency converter, calculator mode and much more.
Get the big picture and huge features for a little price with nüvi 265WT. This widescreen navigator takes you there with preloaded maps and turn-by-turn directions that call out streets by name. It adds a crisp, widescreen display to the nüvi 265T and comes with lifetime traffic and hands-free calling to simplify life on the go. Like the rest of the nüvi 205-series, this portable navigator is priced right and ultra-easy to use.
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Its sunlight-readable, 4.3" display is easy to read, from any direction.
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924 of 938 persons found the following review helpful.
 Good unit for the price
By John S. Dean
Spent a weekend reviewing respective GPS appliances to replace my less than 1 year old Mio C320 (avoid these like the plague) that had it is battery die in regards to 4 months after purchase. Went back and forth along the entire line of Garmin devices, and ultimately settled on this one for the blue tooth and traffic, neither of which I'll in all probability scarcely ever use, but nice to have when I want them.
963 of 995 humans found the following review helpful.
 Map database leaves something to be desired.
By Larry K.
I got this unit for Christmas, 2008. Although this is the basi GPS that I've owned, I've been passenger on numerous trips with a friend who has Nuvi 350 so I was already intimate with Garmin. The unit I purchased had the 2009 maps, and the firmware was reasonably recent. Firmware, etc has since been modified to most recent version(s).
My choice came down to the nuvi 265WT, 765T or 760. The 760 is a premium unit for a bargain price due it's being last years model, while the 765T had the features I wanted but is still highpriced since it's a new model. In the end I opted for 265WT since it had the updated/new features that the 760 didn't have and was at the price that I was more than willing to spend. I did not actually consider other brands, altho my impression is that other brands offer more "bells and whistles" but suffer in the areas of ease of use and reliability.
The unit has worked fine, no troubles to speak of, altho my actual time spend driving with it has been fixed so far (spent lots of time just "playing" with it, though).
[update 9/11/09]
I've now used for a week of commuting to work and running errands. I use for commute because of the traffic reporting.
traffic -- haven't came upon a backup that it didn't warn me about, but have driven through a couple of non-existent backups. I've also found that it may take various minutes for the traffic status to be displayed after power-on, most times *after* it has picked a route.
routing -- the route it gives me to work is rather strange. It routes me off of the freeway onto an expressway that has various lights. I tried it once, and sure sufficient it took longer than predicted, even with light traffic.
reliability -- The unit has "glitched" 3 times in the last week. Once it just turned itself off, another time it jumped from the map to the speedometer screen (by itself) while the voice became very distorted, and another time the backlight setting was not as I had left it.
[end of 9/1/09 update]
My greatest complaint has to do with the POI database. For example, I searched for local cinema's... it did not have the 20 screen cineplex that is nearest to me. When I searched for local Staples Office Supply locatings the nearest it found was 50 miles away, even altho there are at least 4 within 15 miles. I didn't show a nearby Britannia Arms. A big territorial buying goods center is still called by a name that was dropped 5 years ago. etc...
The POI management software (such as it is) could use more flexibility. For example, when searching for Staples, the unit was "busy" rather a good deal of time searching. There appears to be no way to put a limit the search distance.
I think the map update policy is in need of revising. A two month "grace period" is not actually reasonable to the buyers. Most of these are sold in Nov & Dec, and the maps are quintessentially modified in the Spring, beyond the 60 day cutoff. Garmin must be guaranteeing map updates for at least 6 months, if not a year. Or, one free update within 2 years or something similar. Another gripe is the Garmin request for an "account" to register the unit. Yet another user name and password to forget.
[update 1/9/09]
At 2009 CES, Garmin declared a new map update policy. For $120 you get lifetime updates ("up to" 4 times a year) while a single update will be $69, which (I think) is less than before.
[end of 1/9/09 update]
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