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I recently used it on a trip cross country. However, having owned a TomTom in the past, TomTom's ease of use and intuitiveness are head and shoulders above this unit. Even though I follow its directions, in some cases after each turn it will say "recalculating". 1 starA lot of the times it was pretty quick to pick up satellites and pinpoint our location. 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. My TomTom One would keep the route stored until I cleared it out. I can't remember the exact length of time, but I think it was somewhere around a couple of hours.
Not everything about it was perfect, but it was very easy to use. If you've never had a GPS unit before, I suppose this one would be very easy to learn and use. I can't speak for other Garmin's because this is the only one I've owned. 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. There have been several times while using it to navigate through LA that I've wanted to throw it out the window. 3 starsBattery life.
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. What. It would also process routes pretty quickly as well. 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. Instead of leaving the device plugged in because it already had a full battery charge, I would shut off the device.
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. 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. It gets us from point A to point B pretty accurately. My first GPS unit was a TomTom One and I really liked it. So I'd either have to leave the device on or reprogram the destination each and every time.
I left this on at one point and got what I thought was a decent amount of time out of the battery.
The service from Retailtronics worked out very well. A replacement was sent and very pleased with the GPS and the service provided by Retailtronics. Garmin Nuvi 260 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator operates very well and extremely dependable. Initially a mistake in packaging and I was a bit premature in voicing a complaint.
I keep it with me in my car all the time but I dont always keep it out its easy enough to store in my car. Very user friendly. This GPS is easy to use and small enough to store. It is very easy to use as well would recommend to everyone.
I bought a Magellan Roadmate 1440 when I got back, and will never buy anything from Garmin again. Avoid. Fortunately I could make my way back once I'd got on I94 due to reasonable signs, but if I was back in MN in the backroads - I'd have been completely stuffed. This is completely unacceptable in a GPS/satnav device since you could be out in the middle of nowhere and then be completely lost. Even though the charging light had been on from the cigarette lighter the whole journey down and was still on now, the unit was completely dead. I had the Nuvi 260 model for about 1.5 years, maybe 2, really happy with it, and accurate maps even in some of the backwater parts of MN, but last month I was using it to get down to Chicago O'Hare airport, no problem, I collected my passenger, then tried to switch the unit on for the return trip - dead. It's never worked again. With no moving parts, and no accidents happening to it this should NEVER happen with solid-state electronics.
I shopped around and researched before buying and this was the best deal. Thanks Great Price for this Garmin GPS. Fast Shipping made it even better.
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