Garmin nuvi 265W - 4.4 in. Car GPS Receiver
- Form Factor: Fixed
- Map capabilities: Internal, Download maps
- Screen Size: 4.4 in.
- GPS Type: Automobile
- Input Method: Touch Screen, Keyboard, Voice Command
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DO NOT BUY GARMIN
Pros
50% of the time it gets you found
Cons
50% of the time it gets you lost.
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
do not buy a garmin. garmin will get you lost as often as it will get you found. i'd be better off with a compass and a map.
Garmin-
I am writing this letter in response to your company's failure to address my complaint, and to inform you that as a paying customer, you will never do business with me again.
Last winter I bought a Garmin Nuvi 360, a gps unit guaranteed to navigate me through any town and city in America. However I can say that this unit has gotten me lost as many times as it has gotten me found.
On more than one occasion I found that the unit did not recognize the road I was driving on. The most annoying instance of this happening was on the interchange a few miles from my home. The unit never did recognize this interchange (though it has been there for 10 years) and was constantly re-routing me all over the place. There were also many times in which the unit would tell me to drive down a road that did not exist, and many times in which it did not recognize the road that I was driving down, displaying instead a blank field with my car driving through it.
Another extremely annoying glitch was that the unit was constantly confusing the northbound interstate with the southbound, telling me to go southbound when I had programmed it to take me north. Eventually I learned that the unit was not to be trusted, and I should follow my gut when it seemed that it was taking me down the wrong path.
Of course after calling Garmin customer support they told me that I should have downloaded the map update within 60 days of activating the unit, and 120 days was too late. Never mind that an older map set should still know the difference between north and south. I looked up the price of a map update, and it was $99.99, one unit per download.
To cap it off, yesterday I had the Garmin mounted on the windshield suction cup, and it broke free as I was getting out of the car, landed outside the vehicle, and now the screen is cracked and I cannot use it at all. I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or relieved.
DO NOT BUY GARMIN! THERE ARE MANY GPS OPTIONS OUT THERE, AND GARMIN IS THE WORST OF THEM!
I am writing this letter in response to your company's failure to address my complaint, and to inform you that as a paying customer, you will never do business with me again.
Last winter I bought a Garmin Nuvi 360, a gps unit guaranteed to navigate me through any town and city in America. However I can say that this unit has gotten me lost as many times as it has gotten me found.
On more than one occasion I found that the unit did not recognize the road I was driving on. The most annoying instance of this happening was on the interchange a few miles from my home. The unit never did recognize this interchange (though it has been there for 10 years) and was constantly re-routing me all over the place. There were also many times in which the unit would tell me to drive down a road that did not exist, and many times in which it did not recognize the road that I was driving down, displaying instead a blank field with my car driving through it.
Another extremely annoying glitch was that the unit was constantly confusing the northbound interstate with the southbound, telling me to go southbound when I had programmed it to take me north. Eventually I learned that the unit was not to be trusted, and I should follow my gut when it seemed that it was taking me down the wrong path.
Of course after calling Garmin customer support they told me that I should have downloaded the map update within 60 days of activating the unit, and 120 days was too late. Never mind that an older map set should still know the difference between north and south. I looked up the price of a map update, and it was $99.99, one unit per download.
To cap it off, yesterday I had the Garmin mounted on the windshield suction cup, and it broke free as I was getting out of the car, landed outside the vehicle, and now the screen is cracked and I cannot use it at all. I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or relieved.
DO NOT BUY GARMIN! THERE ARE MANY GPS OPTIONS OUT THERE, AND GARMIN IS THE WORST OF THEM!
