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Garmin Nüvi 200W review

Advantages: easy 2 use. good strong signal, always
Disadvantages: no traffic lights camara warning. out of date maps. bought dec. 08, wont find :new: roads that hav

As a 100.000 mles a year long distance courier driver, a good sat nav is very important to me. updated because my old sat nav, at 3 years old, was getting a bit dated. OLD SAT FINDS ROADS THAT 200W CANT. maps seem 2 be way out of date. the only sat nav that i know off that does not have traffic light camara's warning. had i known this, it would have been the one thing that would have stopped me buying it. Good points? does what a sat nav is made ...

farrell2009 14.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Garmin Nüvi 200W

British English not so British!

Advantages: Ease of use. Price.
Disadvantages: Seems to like "scenic routes"!!.

...shop, I finally chose the Garmin Nüvi 255 to replace the Mio which I really didn't get on with. The 255 makes it very easy to select and save a destination, the instructions are loud and clear and the holder supports the unit firmly on the windscreen. I have the voice set to British English but (to my irritation) "she" insists on saying, in an English accent, for example, "two hundred fifty" instead of "two hundred and fifty". I haven't used the ...
...certain circumstances, other Americanisms will creep in which sound bizarre when spoken in an "English" (i.e. not regional) accent. Although I have set "Navigation, Avoidances" to include only "Unpaved Roads", the unit insists on trying to take me along winding country lanes and this in the area around my home which I know well and when I would use much "better" roads which are possibly shorter and quicker in the long run. In "Navigation" I have ...

Silverman123 15.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Garmin Nüvi 255

Don't drive a car without one!!!

Advantages: Great voice promts, fast route calculation, great user interface.....
Disadvantages: I honestly have not found any!

...follow the allocated route the tomtom recalculates a new route within seconds by-itself. This saves endless time with a map. In my opinion the tomtom offers the best user interfaces in satnavs today. It is easy to use and you do not have to read a novel of an instruction manual to be able to use it. In my opinion if you own a car then you NEED one of these. ...

andrewjwatt 31.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of TomTom GO 530

A Must To Use TO Optimize Driving Time!

Advantages: very accurate, reliable, a must when lost, fast reaction
Disadvantages: small screen

...first my father buy this Garmin NÜVI 250 W from USA, and i just thought it just another wasting money junk. Well I know that Garmin is well known for its Satellite Navigation system and it do show it a big company by sponsoring the FULHAM FC. I at first not really believe that it can show accurate road, mean, i thought it only show general road available. At after a few day, my father ask me to go to Malaysia Capital, Kuala Lumpur, which is about ...
...stubborn enough not to use Garmin NÜVI 250 W. This thing have warn me a few time to take the left or right on the road, but I take not to believe it. A wonder around the city for 3 hour. Then I start to give up, i try to follow the Garmin. The lady in it gave me a direction to a Highway, and I follow. Than a stepping stone, I saw signboard say that the place I'm heading is another 25 KM. A BIG RELIEF FOR ME! At highway, for sure I will be speeding. ...

Internationalxdc 25.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Garmin NÜVI 250 W

TomTom really have the market sussed

Advantages: Great customisation features, big clear screen, easy to use
Disadvantages: Battery life, no wall charger included

...This versions of the TomTom includes the latest maps of the UK & Ireland. You can get some TomTom's which have maps of Europe in them, but as I'm not planning on road trip around Europe anytime soon I went for the UK & Ireland version. Another big factor on choosing this one was the fact that the Europe edition was £80 more expensive at the time & after checking just now I noticed they haven't changed in price as I presumed they would have done either. ...
...connect to your phone. My TomTom sometimes stops at 40% for about 20 seconds or so then connects up within about a minute or so or sometimes when it stops at 40% it says connection failed, try again? Which can be very frustrating. A great feature with this sat nav is the voice recognition it comes with, this is especially great if you are driving at the time of operating this & saves you from taking your eyes off the road. It recognises your voice ...

Great_reviewer07 17.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of TomTom GO 520