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We love our garmin purchased from Amazon. Our voice is Lola, and gives great directions. We can now find any place we are looking for.Easy to use and great directions, easy to follow.
Have own the device for more than year and are still pretty happy with it. However, we only use it when we travel outside our area which doesn't happen too often.
The price has really come down on this unit too, I paid twice as much for it two years ago. Simply put; I've had this unit for two years and its paid for itself several times over in the money I've saved on gas. Thats not mention the frustration it saves as well. I highly recomend the Garmim Nuvi 260. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, "It's the best gadget I've ever bought".
Did not have the exact same features as my previous model 260 from 2 years ago. How can the same model have different features. That was a surprise but I can live with it.
After a few hours of driving, I'd turn the device back on to find out how much further we had to travel and it would lose the programmed destination every time even though the battery still showed a full charge. 4 starsEase of use or intuitiveness. I would program in our destination, let the device program our route which was pretty much I-40 west the entire way, and look to see our approximate arrival time. Well, it got stolen and my brother happen to be moving overseas so he gave me his Garmin Nuvi 260.In my opinion, it's not very intuitive.
I left this on at one point and got what I thought was a decent amount of time out of the battery. For a portable device, if you turn it off to save juice then turn it back on, your destination will be lost.or at least it was on mine.Yes.I've done all the updates that are available.Overall, I'm glad I didn't spend my own money on this unit. Not everything about it was perfect, but it was very easy to use. So I'd either have to leave the device on or reprogram the destination each and every time. If you've never had a GPS unit before, I suppose this one would be very easy to learn and use.
3 starsBattery life. Instead of leaving the device plugged in because it already had a full battery charge, I would shut off the device. My TomTom One would keep the route stored until I cleared it out. Even though I follow its directions, in some cases after each turn it will say "recalculating".
My first GPS unit was a TomTom One and I really liked it. However, having owned a TomTom in the past, TomTom's ease of use and intuitiveness are head and shoulders above this unit. I can't speak for other Garmin's because this is the only one I've owned. I can't remember the exact length of time, but I think it was somewhere around a couple of hours. It would also process routes pretty quickly as well. What. I recently used it on a trip cross country.
It gets us from point A to point B pretty accurately. 1 starA lot of the times it was pretty quick to pick up satellites and pinpoint our location. There were a few occasion where the device knew where we were but had no idea in which direction I was driving so the little car just sort of looked lost. There have been several times while using it to navigate through LA that I've wanted to throw it out the window. One thing I do love is the fact that it tells you whether your address destination is on the right or the left side of the road.something my TomTom did not do.I don't think I'd recommend this to a friend as I'm sure there are better units out there in the same price range.
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