Garmin GTM 25 with Lifetime Traffic

Manufacturer : Garmin Model : 010-00722-13 ASIN : B001MU246A Price : 119.99$ Last Price : 39.99$(Discount 66.6722226852238% See Special Offers Amazon.com Product Description Power your nüvi and get lifetime¹ traffic updates all with one cable. With the GTM 25 you’ll receive free lifetime traffic¹ updates from NAVTEQ Traffic, a real-time traffic services provider. No monthly fees or maintenance costs! NAVTEQ Traffic delivers accurate, reliable, lifetime traffic data directly to your compatible navigator. Avoid Traffic Tie-ups The GTM 25 provides North America traffic information to compatible Garmin GPS navigators. Using this data, your device alerts you to local traffic tie-ups and displays current traffic levels. The receiver also acts as an in-vehicle power charger. Traffic provided by NAVTEQ Traffic. Coverage Area NAVTEQ Traffic provides real-time traffic conditions for more than 90 metropolitan markets in North America, including Toronto, Canada. View detailed coverage information. Click to enlarge Comprehensive, reliable nationwide coverage Accurate traffic flow speeds Unplanned incidents such as accidents and stalled vehicles Planned incidents such as road construction and closures Information about special and sports events and holidays that may affect traffic Compatible Products nüvi 205, nüvi 255, nüvi 285WT, nüvi 465T, nüvi 500, nüvi 1200, nüvi 1250, nüvi 1300, nüvi 1350, nüvi 1450, nüvi 1260T, nüvi 1350T, nüvi 1370T, nüvi 1390T, nüvi 1490T, nüvi 205W, nüvi 255W, nüvi 265T, nüvi 265WT, nüvi 275T, nüvi 550 What's in the Box GTM 25 with lifetime traffic and owner's manual ¹Lifetime traffic extends for the useful life of your Garmin traffic receiver (as long as you own a compatible Garmin GPS) or as long as Garmin receives traffic data from its traffic supplier, whichever is shorter. Traffic content not available for all areas. See www.navteq.com/rdstraffic for traffic coverage areas and www.garmin.com/traffic/fm/navteq.html for program License Agreement containing complete terms and conditions. Most Helpful Customer Reviews 186 of 190 people found the following review helpful: It works, with limitations This review is from: Garmin GTM 25 with Lifetime Traffic (Electronics) I found it very difficult to find information on how this works and what it does, so I took a little gamble based on the only review here at Amazon. After using it for a couple of weeks, I have to wonder if the other review is a shill--it would have been nice to know what to expect, not just "it's great" sort of thing. So I'll try to pass along my view of what this can do and why it is limited (based on my experiences with a Nuvi 205) You simply use this in place of your DC adapter in your automobile, making it essentially invisible to you (nice--no extra wires to run). As you are driving, it is a receiver of publicly broadcast traffic information for the area you are in (thus the service is free) "when available". When your Garmin detects these broadcasts, it somehow compares the information it gets with your location and planned route. Garmin puts a little traffic icon on you display, indicating how traffic will affect your travel. The icon is color coded--Green for no problems, yellow for some delay, and red for major delay. I think Garmin takes into account the delays on your route in calculating the arrival time. It does look for alternate routes, and I believe that if it finds a better one, it will automatically reroute you. If you tap on the traffic icon, it Garmin takes you to another screen with some options: 1. view traffic map 2: see traffic on route and 3: see traffic in area. Since there were no instructions provided with the product I'm not sure exactly how you're supposed to use these, but I'll share how I think they work: 1. view traffic map: This simply changes your navigation map slightly so that the bad traffic areas are highlighted (in yellow or red) as you drive. I don't know why this is done as a separate map--why don't they just color code the navigation map? 2. Traffic on route gives you a zoomed-out map showing where you are and where the traffic issues are 3: Traffic in area shows a list of all the major roads in your area for which there are reports and color codes them. I found this to be the most useful feature. So that's what it does (maybe it does more, but I haven't figured anything else out yet), but how well does it work? The simple answer is that the device does what it is supposed to, but it is limited by the information presented to it. I've used it now a few times in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, and on a vacation that had me drive up the PA Turnpike, to upstate New York, to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, and Watertown, NY. For the most part, the information presented on Garmin was never any better than that which could have been heard on a local radio station. The coverage did not seem bad--every metro area we were near did have reporting. The only places without reporting were pretty rural. On the vacation, we encountered 4 separate traffic backups (in areas with reporting), only 2 of which Garmin knew about. The two that it knew about, it estimated our delay as about 1 or 2 minutes, but one was really 15 minutes and one was over an hour. The two delays that Garmin did not know about were significant--one was a half hour, and one was a closed highway that cost us over an hour (and made us miss a ferry we were scheduled for). In the worst cases, had Garmin had the information, I'm sure it would have given us a better route. It's not Garmin's fault, but it does show you the limitations. So bottom line is that this device works, but it is limited in the information available to it. Is it worth getting? That is up to you--I like having some insight into what is going on around me, even if it didn't change things for me. It's kind of neat seeing the list of different roads and there problems--perhaps this will help more if you are a commuter in a major metro area. If you do get this though, don't expect miracles--you'll have to experiment a little and use it like I do--as a tool that provides some more information to you (albeit not perfect)--and not a say-all, end-all on what you should do. 22 of 22 people found the following review helpful: I'm sure it will prove valuable once I figure it out. This review is from: Garmin GTM 25 with Lifetime Traffic (Electronics) This doesn't come with any instructions. Fortunately, I've found input from reviewers on other sites that are helping me figure it out. I live in the DFW area where there are frequent backups due to accidents. I bought this to help alert me when I need to find alternate routes. It's worth the price if you have a unit that doesn't come with the traffic included. If you are buying a new unit and want this feature, expect to pay the extra $100+ for the price of the unit. It only works in large metropolitan areas, so it won't help you much if they're doing construction on an interstate when you are traveling. I guess there are still some things AAA is good for! Don't waste your money on anything with MSN Direct traffic. Microsoft is dropping support for MSN Direct in early 2011. 19 of 22 people found the following review helpful: keep up with the traffic    This review is from: Garmin GTM 25 with Lifetime Traffic (Electronics) If you are a commuter & you don't value time spent behind the wheel, this item can save you from misery of sitting in traffic. It will give an estimate of how much of a delay & prompt the user for an alternate route. I haven't quite figured out the "alternate" part of it yet because it will display message: "you have already been given the fastest possible route". I usually stick with the traffic I'm in but I'll tune into a traffic station to find out the delay & if it is something major, I go ahead & take another route. This cord allows for trffic updates & I don't know if it does nearly the same as MSN? MSN will update certain businesses so they can be contacted on the fly but when you first purchase the unit, there are a lot of businesses that can be contacted for restaurants, gas stations or hotels. Your GPS unit will lead you to them & a phone call will get you the information you need. The cord can also be used as power charger, even with A/C if you have an adapter. Most Recent Customer Reviews Awesome! This cable works really well. I bought an extra cable to use on my motorcyle. The other one is for the car. It recieves the traffic signal very well. by James Dowdy Works great After talking with a tech at Garmin, he said the GTM 25 was the same unit as the GTM 35 jus a bit of a difference in the plug according to him. by Lars Traffic coverage abysmal & comes with ads I purposely bought a Garmin Nuvi 1450 WITHOUT the free lifetime traffic included because the 1450LMT's traffic is ad-supported. by Bluebird Garmin GTM25 with Lifetime Traffic I had my car broken into and happen to leave the same cable in my car luckey i had the GPS @home and looked @stores for the same cable the Garmin GTM 25 with Lifetime Traffic and... by Carlitos1 Can't use Garmon GPS without it Exact duplicate replacement for original charger for my Garmon GPS. Not only needed the charging function, but really benefit from access to traffic and avoiding it as I live and... by Captdev good but expensive (replacement car adaptor for garmin) The product is fine the price is rediculous almost as much as a whole new unit. Writing to gramin with complaint! by Shannon Gillis Practical for daily delivery and service driver Im a service tech that had one of these come with my garmin. The original had plastic clips to secure the plug in the cigarette lighter and broke off about 4 months after buying... by beudimis Only sporadically effective This gizmo turned out to be fairly ineffective when city traffic was involved. It does work well for Highway traffic. by Paul M. Norman Garmin Power Cord I am extremely happy with the service and how quickly my product arrived at my front door. Thank you, and you can consider me a customer for life. Thanks again. by Traxx1 Buy the GTM 20 cable! I have bought 2 nuvi 755Ts. One came with the GTM 20 cable, the other came with the GTM 25 cable. The GTM 25 cable has it's 'dongle' about 4 inches away from the cradle plug... by Cybrfalcon

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