GARMIN nüvi 265WT 4.3" GPS with FM Live traffic

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I'm a content user of a Garmin nuvi 680 (an older model) with the exact same website traffic update function via MSN Direct. Don't count on traffic updates out in the boonies, but otherwise they operate excellent and have saved me time on several occasions. The MSN Direct service by means of FM radio is going away in early 2011. I've been notified of this and told that any payments I've made to that point will be refunded on a pro rata basis (I bought the lifetime access). I consider MSN is getting hedged out of the industry by wise phones and 3G updates which perform across a larger portion of the country due to cell coverage these days (and such coverage will only be expanding). I like my Garmin and don't program to replace it with a (smaller) smart telephone for navigation purposes. The last factor I want is a phone with such a huge show. :)

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I purchased a refurbished unit at a good value, unit operates excellent, has quick response when you miss your turn, recalculates new route rapidly. I am really satisfied with obtain. I also went on the internet the very first evening and got all the latest updates for unit with out any challenges.I have only utilized the FM visitors onle once but seems to operate fine. Cant install Garmin Games on this unit If you leave the Blue tooth on and screen at full brightness, it will drain battery fairly quickly. I accomplished have that issue, given that I really hard wired power cable to the unit.

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-absolutely free traffic-fast reload price-bluetooth -ought to plug into power to receive website traffic-traffic update as well slow(to me). I live in New York City. NYC site visitors pattern is too rapidly for it. -The GPS reset/reboot on me as soon as whilst I was driving. It was plugged into power and I didn't press anything. Don't know what occur.-The update computer software Ƙብ) from Garmin screw it up. It take longer to obtain sat and calculate trips now. Need new update.-A lot of persons worry about the pop-up from the absolutely free traffic. It's not that poor. Pop up is very little and only pop when you stop. I had the GPS for a month and only pop-up 4x. I don't even notice it even though driving.

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It provides voice directions, screen is fairly very easy to read. Terrible directions, at least in the New York area and suburbs. Trust me, if I didn't already know the location I would have been in trouble if I followed these directions. Requires you by means of absurd out of the way routes, sometimes via areas that you probably should certainly be armed to venture into. It also doesn't appear to know the difference between a excellent county and a US highway that goes by way of back alley techniques. If I still lived in Kansas it may be valuable, but then once more who requires a GPS in Kansas. Various occasions I would reroute to a nearby far better way, it would recalculate and insist on returning to it's original thought, regardless of actual circumstances. I'd only give it to a person in NY that desires a tour of the worst regions of the city, it seems to have an affinity for them. One particular last point, the promised one time map upgrade would not function, they have but to answer my e-mails to tech help. No telephone numbers on the help internet webpage. Google maps on my blackberry completely out performs it in terms of each satellite acquisition and the high-quality of the routing offered. The only actual cause for a dedicated GPS is to get voice directions and preserve the coppers off your tail for holding a telephone.

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A excellent selection of "Points of Interest". Light, easy to use. Arrival time is incredibly accurate IF the directions are precise. In July, we produced out 3rd trip from Upstate New York to Myrtle beach. This year, we decided to upgrade our GPS, and purchased a nuvi 265WT. Althouth we updated the maps ideal before we left to come home, the device had no knowledge of any of the road improvements throughout the final 2 years. We lost at least an hour by following the directions, and would have lost most likely an additional hour if we had not ignored the recommendations. We were disappointed in the all round navigation.

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Functions fine, free site visitors works out of the box Wanted me to drive through a cemetery to save time once, thought it was weird.

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Simple setupScreen sizeFast satellite acquisition, recalc speedMap update was easy, even though slow (over an hour). As it's a one-time event, no biggie. Was unable to locate a couple of extended-standing addresses in the Dallas region, even though it got me close. Does everything I expected.

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Its 'ah-mazing". It does even inform you exactly where are the restaurants about the region! I placed my order on Monday in the morning and I received this GPS on Tuesday! ɛ Newegg. none

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- Initial low price esp when on sale!!- GPS functions effectively for the most part!- You get 1 free of charge map update inside 60 days following the initial satellite location!- Model 255W is primarily the same but devoid of Bluetooth or lifetime targeted traffic attributes or Mini-USB cable for map updates! - GPS maps does NOT allow user to CUSTOMIZE routes!!- GPS maps keeps making use of the Major highways Straight to destination!- GPS maps does NOT consider Alternate routes which Might take longer mileage smart but nevertheless conserve time traveling (i.e. as an alternative of going "straight", the maps does NOT pick a route that goes "around" specific higher website traffic areas which may possibly be longer but will conserve time in that it avoids regional traffic)!- NO physical volume handle slider/rocker; should use volume control on screen which is dangerous when driving!! WTHeck was Garmin thinking? Oh, yeah... price as in cash!!!- Full manual is obtainable online ONLY and it's ᡪ pages. - Cell telephone Mini-USB cable IS compatible with GPS to avoid paying add. funds to get a cable for map updates!- Purchase the Garmin Lifetime map card for quarterly map updates for the life of the product which you can acquire on the web for <贄!- Requirements a lot more pleasant sounding female voices!

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The nuvi 265wt does everything I'd come to expect of Garmin and it does it well. I have no problems with anything at all, the update approach is good, and downloading extras was trivial. I also have a absolutely free map update till finish of august, so that's a bonus. Battery life, routing algorithm, sensitivity - all extremely great and more quickly compared to a TomTom One my brother has and a nuvi 3xx I've lately used. The greatest con is the traffic receiver. I believed it'd be a great feature and decided to dish out the extra ๠ for lifetime use. But whilst it receives data and I can see colours change accordingly, even with routing set to 'avoid site visitors', I've however to see it essentially perform!!! I'll hear AM680 warn about high traffic on the 401, or see the highway actually frozen and it still insists on me using the highway. I've timed it twice when listening to it and obtaining my brother take an alternate route and the alternate route was constantly faster. I thought the complete point of a targeted traffic receiver was to steer clear of visitors and route outdoors of it.Also, at max speaker volume, it's much quieter than any GPS device I've noticed to date. Not a con for me, since I generally appear, not listen, and it may as nicely just beep when to get my consideration near a turn off, but nevertheless, louder would be good. What can I say - lovely device and 1 I've waited to be on sale for quite some time. But there is no doubt in my thoughts that I'd be superior off with the 265W model - identical looks, functionality, dimensions, but no targeted traffic receiver. Immediately after all, why pay an further ๠ for what seemed like a really good feature, exactly where it does *not* function. So, that's why I'm giving it one particular star less than a perfect score.

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-Never ever loses satellite reception unless you go indoors.-Boots up in no time.-Quickly!-It's generally prepared to go as soon as I turn it on, no waiting.-Good menus and features that are extremely easy to navigate-I haven't even necessary to consult the manual to use any function, and I have in no way applied a GPS ahead of.-Text to speech is clear and uncomplicated to recognize.-I wouldn't anticipate this considerably performance for the value! -None, it blew my expectations out of the water. This is my first gps, so I have nothing to compare it to.

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Great screen and anything else, except what I purchased it for. Actually negative at rerouting close to website traffic. If you anticipate it to enable you with targeted traffic, you will be disappointed.

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I have had various GPS units produced from many firms. I have identified that Garmin is the best in accuracy and ease of use. I purchased this specific unit for my wife. She is NOT tech savy!! She is a household well being Nurse and uses the GPS on a every day basis with no confusion at all. She loves it! When on a trip to New Jersey, I plugged the directions in for a location and my bro-in-law stated that the GPS location will be off by a block but we really should see it. He as a Tom Tom, but our Garmin was saying "You have arrived ..." specifically in front of the company! Take that you accuracy nay sayers! LOL None I would favor a bigger screen, but that's just me. If I genuinely wanted a bigger screen, I should have just forked out much more money. LOL

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Fantastic item, aids me get about the town. Significant screen with brilliant and sharp pixels. No thorough facts although changing lanes. A superior software program update from Garmin need to assist even though finding around in huge cities with multi-lanes. This is specifically valuable for strangers not utilised to the Amercian way of driving. Newegg at its greatest yet again, with superfast shipment and low cost.

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This is my first GPS unit and I assume a great selection! Screen is simple to navigate, simple to enter in POIs, and re-calculates fairly promptly. The computer software Garmin has for it is also excellent to add POIs and added extras. Her voice does get on your nerves a small bit, but that is what they make volume for.

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Handsfree Bluetooth calling. FM Live Traffic. Ability to enter lat long coordinates. SLOW!!! SLOW!!! SLOW!!! Everything about this unit is slow. Turning on the unit is slow, entering and address is slow, recalculation is slow.....Reside Traffic is quite much useless. It does perform but is extremely inaccurate with the actual trafic conditions. Bluetooth works but is incredibly slow to connect to an incoming get in touch with (minimum of 5 rings) and quiet. When entering an address, you should spell state and city rather than just entering in a zip code, like other suppliers enable. Also, the unit knows exactly where toll booths are but it doesn't inform you when you're approaching one particular. If I could go back in time, I surely would not have purchased this unit.

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Very wise UI, capabilities are wonderful, screen size is a enormous improvement compared to employing a cellphone app, the case it sturdy, most almost everything that I'd want to do while driving it lets me do the power cable going to the cigarette lighter is type of bulky and gets in the way IF YOU HAVEN'T mounted the device yetThe USB cable autmatically sends it into "plugged into computer system" mode which is kinda dumb for these of us with USB energy plugs or whatever in our car or truck

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This seems to be overall a great product. Battery life seems pretty great, TTS is fantastic, bluetooth feature is not poor, adds my cell telephone contacts to the garmin and every little thing. Involves lifetime website traffic subscription, which is a quite great deal. The maps were recently updated (October, 2009), so they're all very precise, and routing appears to make sense for the most component. The internal speaker is not a good quality, so the volume has to be quite high in order to hear it over driving noise. This typically causes distortion, especially when working with bluetooth on the telephone. The targeted traffic alerts function is useless unless you reside in an area that supports site visitors (big cities). I reside in Maine, so that's out. I do drive to Boston, nonetheless, so it's useful there. Garmins also used to have a function exactly where you could tap on the signal icon, and see which satellites you had been making use of, that has gone away. Also, the power cord is really extended and bulky. I ordered a nuvi 265wt, and received a 265w. I've read this in other evaluations, and decided to do a little study of my own. The only distinction is that the 265wt has an internal fm targeted traffic receiver, and the 265w doesn't have an internal one particular. They send the 265w with the fm site visitors receiver integrated with the energy cord, so they consider it the same model. It means that for the 265w, you have to have it plugged in to receive website traffic updates.

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Widescreen. Quick to recognize deviations and re-route. Garmin good quality. Site visitors! It is USELESS - at least in my region. It has Under no circumstances accurately warned me of a delay. The delays it does warn of often under no circumstances materialize, to the point that I don't spend any interest to the site visitors warnings any longer.The worst example of this is a current tunnel closure due to a water-most important break; following the tunnel (one of only two routes amongst major areas) had been closed for over 6 hours, the 265wt continued to show it as the best route, even for the duration of the 45 minutes it took me to travel 1ǘ mile to the exit off the interstate (I wasn't conscious of the closure when I set out). Any person know how to turn off the website traffic receiver? The pop-up ads are NOT undesirable at all - I am far more concerned with the stoopid thing trying to re-route me about a non-existant targeted traffic delay...

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Operates correct out of the box as advertised.Quickly GPS signal aquisition.No troubles, have owned because May well 2009. This is my 2nd Garmic, after Nuvi 360.FM website traffic is usually accurate.Widescreen actually aids, speed limit indicator is a good feature. Map update was effortless and painless. Speaker output audio is scratchy, lots of noise more than Bluetooth connection. Would be good if unit had background noise cancellation.Map updates are costly, and haven't kept up with reconstructed roads. Ads through traffic updates are annoying.

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Rapid rerouting Some congested places are confusing Overall quite happy with the 265wt

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Fairly handy with newest map update....way significantly more affordable and portable. None None

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-Clear directions-Easy to read-GPS...? It does most items proper. -Bluetooth volume is a little quiet-Sometimes loses signal-Some directions are counter-intuitive

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None None Have not purchased it but after reading evaluations I have located most people today do not know how to read. In order for it to be a WT model you have to update and register it Garmin. Even though in the car you have to use the auto charger to get the FM updates.

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Great GPS, uncomplicated to use, clear display, bluetooth and Newegg gave me a hell of a deal! I had to give it to my daughter for Christmas. She can use it to order a pizza with the bluetooth & telephone. Orders prepared when she gets there.