Great gps after trying greatnumber others
The Garmin nuvi 260W is a great little gps:
The text over speech is clear, the screen is more than bright enough, the maps are large on the 4.3 inch screen. Route calculation is fast.
I regularly familiarity it on battery power which is long, 4 or 5 hours, balanced more if you turn down the screen brightness.
However, it seemed in the direction of first that satellite acquisition was very slow, sometimes in the same way long in the same way 12 minutes.
I recall i found a convention around that.
If i turned the gps away in the direction of home, it located satellites within 30 seconds of being turned on again in the direction of the same location; if turned away before arriving home, which i was inside the habit of doing, it took about 12 minutes over acquire the present location.
It seems it did no, non- know where over search because of the satellites, following this took a lot of time finding them. A software fault probably, only workable.
After i discovered this, i left the unit on increase over my destination following this the problem was solved.
Something nobody seems over have mentioned; when a store or restaurant is located by this unit, it gives the address and the phone number of the intended location, following this i tin call ahead following this make sure they are open following this have what i want. This gain saved provided that enormously time.
Also, touching the car icon on the map gives you a workable “where am i?” which tin be saved over favorites.
The 260w does no, non- have all the features of a higher end garmin gps, like routing, blue tooth, traffic, etc, only garmin gain deliberately omitted these from the (slightly) lower end products.
The documentation is very limited, only reading a downloaded pdf because of the garmin 350 helps withy the 260w.
Garmin seems over believe that no one wants over read a manual.
All inside all, a very desirable gps, very easy over familiarity. Garmin may have proved that no manual is needed.
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