Manufacturer : Garmin
Model : 010-01002-29
ASIN : B005DIBHCE
Price : 219.99$
Last Price : 219$(Discount 0.450020455475253%
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Product Description5.0" LARGE SCREEN TOUCH DISPLAY; FREE LIFETIME MAP & TRAFFIC UPDATE; 3D TRAFFIC-THE WORLD'S MOST EXTENSIVE TRAFFIC AVOIDANCE SYSTEM; LANE GUIDANCE WITH EXCLUSIVE PHOTOREALTM JUNCTION VIEW; DUAL-ORIENTATION SCREEN; SUPPORTS ECOROUTE HD WITH ACCESSORY PURCHASE; GARMIN GUIDANCE 2.0
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
Good navigation device!
+ Voice Navigation feature is good and exceeded my expectations in terms of how well it works. There are some caveats though.
a) Not all of the features/settings of the phone are controllable by voice. so, while the feature itself works well, it feels limited in its usefulness.
b) although voice recognition seems to work well in quiet conditions, I did find myself repeating my voice commands while using the device in a slightly noisy environment (such as driving on a highway with road noise filling the cabin space).
+ Touch interface is fine. Just not as responsive (sensitive?) as an iphone. I think this Garmin device has a resistive touchscreen as opposed to a capacitive touchscreen -- which could explain the responsiveness.
+ Haven't had a chance to see the traffic based navigation in action yet. will update later on this.
+ the route calculation and location search seems faster.
Overall, it's a good buy. The lifetime map and traffic updates, bluetooth is a plus.
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possible software bug??
When I first got the device and powered it up, the device booted up and prompted for setting a 'Language'. The list has an up arrow and down arrow. On my device, the UP arrow was always active even when I was not touching/pressing it. so, it just kept scrolling through the list endlessly and not allowing me to set the locale. This was frustrating. But somehow, I managed to stop the endless scrolling by pressing on an area surrounding the list and just holding it long enough for me to press the OK button and move on to the next screen. Guess what, a similar list was presented for setting 'Locale' and it was the same issue again. Again, I managed to use my skill to somehow get past this annoyance. However, once past that, I never had an issue with using any part of the UI on the device. I didn't see any issues with any lists or scrolling up/down on the various screens. So, my guess at this point is that it is just a bug in the software in the boot up portion (i.e. when the device is in a completely reset factory default state to it being an initial state with the mandatory setting of locale/language set)
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
Super unit
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
A good one
The 2595LMT brings back some of the good memories I had when I first got the 350. Finally, this thing feels fast. Fast in searching, typing, and map drawing. It is an enormous improvement in the one area that has bugged me. No matter how slick looking and thin the nuvis have gotten, the interface felt SLOW and ancient. No more.
In terms of route selection, I will update my post as I use it more. My 660 chooses odd routes at times (yes, i disabled all the traffic re-routing (absolute garbage)), I hope the 2595LMT chooses more straightforward routes.
Voice control is pretty awesome. When you search by city, it helps a lot to say the city and state. It seems to do well on recognizing Spanish names. La Cañada is a tough one and I couldn't get it to recognize the name. Although as I type this maybe I should try "La Canada Flintridge" since that is the proper name for the city. One suggestion I have is if it comes up with a zero on a search name it should just list cities that are w/i a 100 mile radius or even slicker would be if you could tell it to find the cities within say 50 miles of another city. So if you say to the nuvi "cities NEAR pasadena california" then it would show a list of the cities around pasadena, la canada would be one of them. I don't know if this is just a novel feature that I will quickly get bored of or whether this is a game changer. Time will tell.
One gripe about how this and probably many of the newer nuvis plug into the car charger. I loved the fact that on my 350 and 660 I did not have to mess around with a separate power plug. The power input was integrated into the mounting clip. Brilliant. Well, now when you want to remove the nuvi from its stand, it involves two steps- unclip the nuvi from the stand and then unplug the usb/power cable. Cost savings move, but it makes it a pain if you like to hide your nuvi when you park your car.
UPDATE- "La Canada Flintridge" in voice command works! However, a family member tried to get to LAX by typing LAX, and got everything with LAX in the name, everything but the airport. If you type "airport" you will get the airport category as a link and then you can pick LAX from a list. The iPhone's google maps is smarter and more intuitive and understands LAX. Garmin has come a long way in searching, but you still have to run searches in a particular way or it will balk and give you a long list of incorrect results. A little annoying and can be very frustrating if you get caught in the loop of entering search terms and getting the wrong results.
I've also had a couple of freezes usually when calculating a route. May be related to traffic downloads. If this continues, it will go back...
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