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Recent reviews for this item: traveler, May 25, 2012 We purchased the unit and Western European maps about 2 days
before taking a trip to Ireland, the maps work spectacularly
and learning to use the unit was straight-forward. Brown, April 16, 2012 Overall, it's a nice and easy-to-use GPS. The speech
recognition, really the only notable upgrade over my last
Garmin, came in handy during a 3,000 km road trip.
Garmin's online software update and add-on download portal
is a great tool and there's no shortage of extras available
to make this day-to-day tool a little more fun.
As far as operation goes, this is no worse than any other
GPS unit I've used and indeed is much better than some of
the other players at this price point.
If you're buying it with the expectation of lifetime traffic
making a big difference during your daily commute, you may
want to reconsider. I found the traffic service on this
device didn't come into its own until I was well into the
US. telserv_ca, February 21, 2012 This is my third Garmin GPS, and by far, the most
disappointing on a number of levels.
I just spent three hours on the phone with tech support, who
finally said they couldn't fix the maps download problem,
and I should just get another computer. They tried to blame
my router firewall, my PC firewall, and my antivirus progam.
I let them take over the computer remotely, and they still
couldn't fix the problem. The second computer took eight
hours to download the maps, and another hour to process and
install them. There was still an 'uexpected error' at the
end of all that. Apparently, this problem is widespread and
complaints on the internet are numerous.
My other misc. complaints include
-Low audio volume in a small car, with windows up and the
fan turned off.
-When used as a handsfree unit, you can't hear the other
phone ringing on an outbound call.
-It won't update the phone book. Numbers I deleted from the
phone ages ago, have never been deleted from the 2495.
-Voice recognition can't be used to find an address. Voice
recognition does work for typical commands like 'view map',
but with street names being pronounced so many ways, this
function really can't work very well.
-Voice recognition doesn't work at all for saved places.
You have to move the cursor four items at a time, until you
find what you want.
-Saved places don't have an icon on the screen.
-Menus aren't very intutive. I've finally had to map them,
but they change between touch screen input and voice input.
In summary, if Garmin had map updates for my old Street
Pilot 2620, I'd have kept it, and passed on the nuvi. My
nuvi experience has been rather fustrating. mizm, January 26, 2012 Could be more user friendly, but once you get the hang of
it, it is inpressive. Turn information could give more
warnings.
