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(More customer reviews)First, as for another review: CERTAIN models of this specific GPS were recalled. All who purchased were made aware of the battery recall and given a website and phone number to contact. You entered the code on the back of your device to find out if it was one of the devices effected. Ours was not.
Onto the actual review!
I bought this as our very first GPS back in April 2010. To this day my husband and I look at each other with contentment and pat ourselves on the back for this purchase. The screen is bright and easy to use. My husband loves playing music on it through our in car radio! He has hundreds of MP3s on the device which he can sort through by genre, alphabetical order, musician, etc. or just choose to play at random. (Considering our in car CD player just died, this is especially nice). It's nice that you can choose for all sound to be played through your car stereo, or to be played through the GPS speakers.
The look-up is fast! We'll often be driving around and think, hey let's stop somewhere to eat. We touch the screen for points of interest, dining, and then can select what type of eating we're craving from there (or just search all). The list is populated quickly and only begins to lag when finding locations over 30 miles away. From the locations list, it shows you the name of the location, the address, and even a phone number so you can grab your cell phone and make a call ahead reservation on the fly.
From the "Where To?" screen, what I especially love, is a recent searches folder. We often forget to write down addresses and the recent searches holds them for quite a while.
On days when you have lots of errands, you can set the GPS to plot a course through all of your stops. At any time you can remove one of the stops or even add another.
When steering off course, this GPS will sometimes recalculate your path speedily but, about 30% of the time, hiccups for a moment before redirecting you. Most, if not all, GPS systems seem to have this problem with a less than instant re-routing function.
The battery life is decent and set-up is a breeze. The stand it includes to attach to your windshield is secure and has never fallen down on us, despite my sometimes trying to tug the GPS out and failing. You have to press in a button on the bottom and pull the GPS out toward you to remove it from the stand. My husband is a one handed master at this but I fumble a bit.
As for long road trips with this Garmin, we've gone on plenty of those. One of my favorite features is that when you need to get into (or avoid) a specific lane on the highway to take an exit, a zoomed in picture of the road will appear (the one you see in the screen shot for this product on Amazon) reminding you exactly where you need to be.
In all this time, we have only lost complete signal twice during a road trip and both times the signal was reacquired shortly.
I love my GPS and I am never tempted to upgrade (or downgrade) from the model I chose. The size is perfect, the features are just what we need, and it's fast and easy to use. When I bought this from Amazon it was on a great sale.
So, after this glowing review, why the four stars out of five? Well, certain features, like the free traffic feature, don't work exactly as advertised. In fact, I have never seen the traffic updates feature in motion before and am still hunting for it.
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