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Great gps later trying greatnumber others

June 12th, 2010

The Garmin nuvi 260W is a great little gps:
The text to speech is clear, the screen is more than bright enough, the maps are large upon the 4.3 inch screen. Route calculation is fast.
I regularly use it upon battery power which is long, 4 or 5 hours, flat more if you turn down the screen brightness.
However, it seemed attending first that satellite acquisition was very slow, sometimes while long while 12 minutes.
I think i found a way around that.
If i turned the gps do the frank attending home, it located satellites within 30 seconds of being turned upon again attending the same location; if turned do the frank before arriving home, which i was in the habit of doing, it took about 12 minutes to acquire the present location.
It seems it did no, non- know where to search because of the satellites, and took a lot of time finding them. A software fault probably, only workable.
After i discovered this, i left the unit upon upright to my destination and the problem was solved.

Something nobody seems to have mentioned; when a store or restaurant is located by this unit, it gives the address and the phone number of the intended location, and i prison call ahead and make sure they are open and have what i want. This has saved therefore abundant time.
Also, touching the car icon upon the map gives you a workable “where am i?” which prison be saved to favorites.

The 260w does no, non- have all the features of a higher end garmin gps, like routing, blue tooth, traffic, etc, only garmin has 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 with the 260w.
Garmin seems to believe that no one wants to read a manual.

All in all, a very qualified gps, very informal to use. Garmin may have proved that no manual is needed.

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