Garmin StreetPilot 2620 - 3.7 in. Car GPS Receiver
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- Form Factor: Fixed, Plug-in
- Map capabilities: Internal
- Receiver Type: 12 Channels
- Enhanced accuracy: WAAS enabled
- Screen Size: 3.7 in.
- GPS Type: Automobile
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Agree 98% wonderful
Pros
Accurate addresses & routing, excellent touchscreen interface, good software updates, durable.
Cons
Weak power cable shoe, tight traffic cable, can't reprogram road-speed assumptions.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
YES - I drive 30 properties a day throughout urban and rural Southeast Florida, and work mine to death without mistakes and very few addresses not found.
As a commercial real estate appraiser I *LIVE* on mine, often seeing 30 properties in a day between Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. It is a huge improvement over prior models I've owned - especially the free software updates and overall usability. I am constantly punching addresses in, and though I've done hundreds if not more than a thousand by how I've NEVER been taken to the wrong address.
Note, the free software updates fixed an early glitch where my system would reset while searching for "SR-7" (State Road 7). DO YOUR UPDATES.
I don't completely trust the routing on any GPS/mapping system, though it is at least as good as or similar to Microsoft Streets route optimization. I usually use Streets first, optimize, adjust the route slightly manually, print the directions and then rely on the Garmin in the route order from Streets.
It is mostly great, so I'll focus on the 2% that's not so wonderful.
Hardware: the plastic shoe on the power connection is weak, and I had to replace mine because it bent, interrupting power in-route. There's no battery backup, either, so when it goes out, it has to reboot. The traffic connector is difficult to remove and locks the power-shoe in, so I find myself sometimes not using it. That's it for hardware.
Software: (1) the routing is OK, but not perfect. (2) After some disasters (my bad) I don't tweak the system. Lots of options but I found myself going way out of the way a few times after experimenting... its not necessary out of the box. (3) I have turned off automatic recalculating and just try to find my way back to the route when off. (4) I wish I could re-program the basic assumptions about road-speeds. I'd like to drop Interstate down a bit, but state highways waaaaay down to maybe 35mph. I've done this in Streets and find that the routes are more realistic.
Traffic module: The good part is that you sometimes know when to MAYBE expect traffic, when there's traffic. The downside is that it is not very accurate so you can hit traffic when not expected, or breeze through an expected jam. Also, as I said, the cable is a tight fit. I did not hook it up to my antenna and it appears to work just fine, by the way.
Note, the free software updates fixed an early glitch where my system would reset while searching for "SR-7" (State Road 7). DO YOUR UPDATES.
I don't completely trust the routing on any GPS/mapping system, though it is at least as good as or similar to Microsoft Streets route optimization. I usually use Streets first, optimize, adjust the route slightly manually, print the directions and then rely on the Garmin in the route order from Streets.
It is mostly great, so I'll focus on the 2% that's not so wonderful.
Hardware: the plastic shoe on the power connection is weak, and I had to replace mine because it bent, interrupting power in-route. There's no battery backup, either, so when it goes out, it has to reboot. The traffic connector is difficult to remove and locks the power-shoe in, so I find myself sometimes not using it. That's it for hardware.
Software: (1) the routing is OK, but not perfect. (2) After some disasters (my bad) I don't tweak the system. Lots of options but I found myself going way out of the way a few times after experimenting... its not necessary out of the box. (3) I have turned off automatic recalculating and just try to find my way back to the route when off. (4) I wish I could re-program the basic assumptions about road-speeds. I'd like to drop Interstate down a bit, but state highways waaaaay down to maybe 35mph. I've done this in Streets and find that the routes are more realistic.
Traffic module: The good part is that you sometimes know when to MAYBE expect traffic, when there's traffic. The downside is that it is not very accurate so you can hit traffic when not expected, or breeze through an expected jam. Also, as I said, the cable is a tight fit. I did not hook it up to my antenna and it appears to work just fine, by the way.
