Handheld GPS Reviews - Customer reviews - GARMIN 010-00656-00 Nuvi 250W Widescreen Travel Assistant

Manufacturer: Garmin

List Price: $589.27
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Refurbished Price: $125.95
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Name: Brian S. Walker
Location:
Date: 2008-01-03
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Great technology but still need to use commonsense
Comment: Used for a month and a half now. Very useful, the depth of the Points of Interests is amazing (and they have phone #'s!). Won't complain about features it doesn't have, there are other models if you need those features. This is a simple-to-use device that has powerful features if you dig down in the menus.

A few discoveries after 1,000 miles:

1) No user manual - Not available (as of Dec 2007) online either.
2) User Error - left in pedestrian mode and the directions got all wacky when driving. This may be the problem that others talked about. Had to switch back to driving mode and power off/on to straighten out. Troubleshooting section in a user manual should point to this.
3) Gets confused when driving under an overpass at a slow rate of speed, may think you are on the road above and recalculate several times as it tries to figure out where you really are. Very noticeable in downtown Pittsburgh, PA where there are bridges everywhere. Looking at the display helps, though! This is the only place this has happened.
4) Some Points of Interest are outdated by a year or two, just like the yellow pages and every other directory I've ever used. Newer items are there, but many small stores have been closed for quite some time.
5) It is very handy to find points of interest along your current route. Great feature, if it had a user manual you might know about it.
6) No USB cable (come on, it costs probably $1 to make). Bought one on eBay for $5 delivered. Had 3 other USB cables types at home, but none fit.
7) No user manual (deserves a second mention) - so you need to play with it for hours to find the more useful features. Just dumb.
8) Can change voice. The option is under wrench, settings, language. The English woman is much better than the default man voice. She even sounds disgusted when pronouncing "recalculating" when you miss a turn! We all love it!!
9) Never has directed me away from the destination, in circles, or on a roundabout route. Drive mostly rural settings.
10) Wish the distance to the next turn was the true distance, and not to the next "keep left" warning that prevents you from accidentally going the wrong way at major interstate clovers.

Much better than I expected, very handy to find small towns off the highway to have lunch or explore. Never realized there where so many parks. Recalculates routes quickly and smartly (haven't used detour feature), zooms screen according to speed and proximity to a turn, screen background changes according to the time of day for easier reading. Lack of manual is inexcusable.

Name: Joanne
Location: Windsor Locks CT
Date: 2007-12-28
Customer Rating: -

Summary: excellent value
Comment: bought as a christmas present and have used to drive from CT to Delaware. It's not happy when you have a route in mind - it keeps trying to redirect you to it's chosen route - I probably should have listened. It took us 6 hrs to get to Delaware and on the way home I decided to follow the instructions and we arrived home in 5 w/ snow cover on the road.

Name: D. Duvall
Location: Columbia, MD United States
Date: 2008-01-07
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Overall great product
Comment: The first of these units I received must have had a defective antenna as it never found the satellite - I immediately contacted Amazon and they (as usual) went above and beyond and shipped me a replacement in 2 days (the week before Christmas no less!).

As for the performance of the unit - once I got a working one it is a great little unit. The startup time is excellent - only on especially cloudy days do I have to wait longer that 10 seconds or so for the signal to go green and start navigating. The included windshield mount is rock solid and attaches securely to both the unit and the windshield - also very easy to remove from the windshield for storage once you park.

Navigation and maps are excellent - the widescreen format really helps - only gripe is that the power adapter plugs directly into the unit instead of into the windshield mount. This means that every time you remove the unit you have to fiddle with the USB-style connector instead of just popping the unit off the windshield mount.

Overall great product - would definitely recommend it.

Note: I also purchased the leather case that fits the 660 - it fits the widescreen size of this unit perfectly.

Name: Suzan
Location: Hudson Valley NY
Date: 2008-03-21
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Definitely worth it!
Comment: This Garmin nuvi 250 GPS system is a definite time and gas saver. It has proven it's worth when rerouted from highways into unfamiliar surroundings. It has been great on highways but a bit skewed on local roads - most likely because GPS data submitted by small localities was off to begin with. This is being used by a limo driver with time sensitive travel passengers and has shown itself to be invaluable (and impressive). We constantly 'test" it and in 98% of use, it is dead one accurate. The large screen visuals are crisp day and night, and the directionals very handy and assuring when when driving. I highly recommend this to anyone who spends time on the road, short or long distances and new and different destinations. P.S. The price on Amazon is great!

Name: Kenneth R. Shapiro
Location: Cedarhurst, Long Island
Date: 2008-04-10
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Great Value Widescreen GPS
Comment: PROS: Accurate maps & routing, Bright & Wide screen, Easy to use right out of the box, thin & light, easy to mount on dash or window

CONS: Can not save routes (but can save favorite locations), Some important features missing from earlier Garmins including ability to choose faster or shorter route on an individual route basis (can be set globally, much less useful), no text to voice directions.

OTHER COMMENTS: This is an incredible value GPS especially in widescreen. Although considered a "low end" garmin, the only meaningful features missing from the more expensive ones are mostly non-GPS related (ie MP3, bluetooth), text to voice and real time traffic routing which is overated. The engineers' decision to eliminate several important features from prior models is puzzling. Going home requires about 6 screens (on the 26xx & 27xx took only 2). The inability to choose a faster or shorter route without going through a sequence of 11 screens to change the default is very frustrating (Could be a deal breaker for people upgrading from the 26xx or 27xx series). Consider the 200W which is identical except for some non USA mapping.

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