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Garmin nüvi 265W/265WT 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic

Bright 4.3-inch diagonal color touchscreen; 480 x 272 pixels, WQVGA TFT display with white backlightSleek, ultra-thin design fits easily in pocketPreloaded with City Navigator North America NTSupports Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free calling when paired with Bluetooth-enabled cell phonesNOTE: Model number on the box is 265WT because the traffic receiver is included; however, the model number on the device itself is 265W as the "T" in 265WT refers to the additional component   More>>>

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This GPS Is good but i have a problem with the routing is will direct me on roads that are not there and out of the way... The avoid gravil roads seting does not reconise the gravil roads i guess. other than that its OK.
I'm in the market for a new GPS to replace my old Navigon 2200 GPS. Tried several models and purchased this one during one of Amazon's many GPS sales. I found this GPS a bit annoying to use. First I purchased the WT model which claims to include the Traffic, but it actually doesn't. It uses MSN Direct as it's traffic monitor but it never explains how to actually activate it, even though it constantly prompts you to everytime the unit starts up. I'm assuming I have to do it by plugging the unit into my PC. But the free MSN traffic only lasts 6 months, after that you have to pay.

I tried out the free trial of the Safety Camera subscription. This doesn't seem to work well at all, it was very random on the safety notices - when I looked around I didn't see a single Safety camera. I drove around the beltway for a few days then on the fourth day all of a sudden there's a safety camera warning every mile on the beltway. There are no Safety cameras on the Beltway, so where it was pulling this data from, I don't know.

It has a really good POI database, I used it to find eating places around my new office location and it worked flawlessly.

This unit fails at it's most basic function which is giving directions. It's excellent once it catches on and calculates, but a lot of times when you are leaving an Office Building, or Shopping Parking lot, it refuses to navigate it's way out of such areas. All it'll say is Go to X Street, or X Highway with no directions on how to actually get to X Highway. It doesn't tell you which way to turn or anything, sometimes the road you need to be on after leaving a Parking lot is 2 or 3 blocks away. It was annoying beyond belief. Some days the Voice Direction worked, others, it didn't. Sometimes the refresh is a few seconds slow and the directions will lag by a few seconds - so if you have to make a sudden turn this may cause an issue.

I like the favorites function, but I don't like clicking 3 times just to get to it.

The positives of the unit are, it has a pretty interface with big colorful icons, the POI db is really good, very accurate once it actually starts navigating, the fonts are all nice and big. I also really liked the holder, it felt solid and gave enough room where you can bend it in just about any direction. Unlike Tom Tom's which was so rigid it broke the minute I tried to move it.

I also hate feeling nickel and dimed, when you plug the GPS into your computer and go to the Garmin store, there are a bunch of really cool optional features for this unit but everything costs $80 or more. So if I wanted things like traffic, speed cameras, special maps, etc... It'd cost me another $200 or $300. Not cool.

I ended up returning the unit. The GPS hunt goes on...











Had my Nuvi 265W for over three months now, with not much success in finding out what it does, when it does, and how I can reproduce what I just managed to do once. It is not just this model; I am sure all others are using the same algorithm to frustrate the user. I set a course without opting for "do not use main arteries" (or something like that) and found myself on the five lane I5 (in Seattle it bisects the city) having to enter from the leftmost lane and exit at the right within 500ft. It was a scary experience to cross fast traffic within such short distance. OK, next time I opted for "do not use main arteries", this time it took me to my first turning in the middle of a bend where I could not see the traffic coming from both ways. The software is not smart enough to make the optimum choice for the course; the user must opt one or the other and hope for the best. I tried it on courses where I knew the roads to be both shortest and traffic-free, yet it wanted to take me into crowded and more roundabout routes. I have not been able to bring up the "via" option reproducibly; I have no idea where this resides in amongst the options. It seems it pops up once in a while but totally irreproducibly. I found it pretty useless to plan a long trip. I wanted to replace the destination I had already entered; the only way it would do was by erasing it, although I saved that address, later I could not find it anywhere. In summary, the hi-tech device is not serving its purpose as I expected, and has become a source of irritation.