nuvi 255W Personal Navigator GPS Unit
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This affordable, widescreen navigator leads the way with voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions that speak street names and optional MSN Direct® services to get you there on time and keep you informed. It’s packed with millions of destinations and maps for North America or Europe. Like the rest of the sleek nüvi 2×5-series, this portable navigator is priced right and ultra-easy to use. nüvi 255W comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator® NT street maps, including a hefty points of interest (pois) database with hotels, restaurants, fuel, atms and more. It even announces the name of exits and streets so you never have to take your eyes off the road. Simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, and nüvi takes you there with turn-by-turn voice directions, 2-D or 3-D maps and smooth map redraw rates as you navigate. Its digital elevation maps show you shaded contours at higher zoom levels, giving you a big picture of the surrounding terrain. In addition, nüvi 255W accepts custom points of interest (pois), such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming pois. With hotfix™ satellite prediction, nüvi calculates your position faster to get you there quicker. With nüvi 255W’s widescreen display, you’ll always get the big picture. View map detail, driving directions, photos and more in bright, brilliant color. Its sunlight-readable, 4.3-inch display is easy to read — from any direction.
I bought this navigator at Best Buy. I also use the same voice for instruction. ‘Samantha’ is incredibly annoying and sounds a bit dismissive as I stray from the charted course when she says ‘recalculating’. I’d like to see Garmin offer a voice-activated feature to engage the mute command. My boss thinks it’s hilarious when I tell my navi to “Shut up, bitch”, while I’m talking to him on the cell phone.
Thanks for this!
i was in teh same situation as you lol trust me if u haven’t arleady go for the garmin! i know it sounds cleshay every1 is saying it but it has way more POI’s and you can download more if u want. but if u got the tomtom its fine really u can’t go wrong either way its personal prefrance
I think it’s a Toyota Echo or possibly a Prius. I think they have all of the gauge info in the center cluster and all digital I think. That would drive me nuts. I need my analog gauges behind the steering wheel.
LOL my dad has this and he says the woman has a whiskey voice.
lol@ 1:43 when the GPS interupts him…good video though….thanks, i can’t decide between this and the tomtom xl 340 s…..target $97 or staples 120 for the nuvi…sigh
Oh, by the way. radioshack will have this tomorrow, black friday, for $119 online.
Amazon just had a lightning deal on it for 119 with free shipping, they sold out in 10 minutes.
Figures. Lol. Thanks for the reply. Have you seen Jeff Dunhams’ bit on the Prius? Search for it, =D
Personally I dont understand the prius. Id rather be in a diesel VW jetta getting 50-60 mpg.
@JL157
Lol He’s in a Toyota Prius. It actually has a recessed LCD with the car data instead of a normal dash guages. The nook for the LCD is just obscured by the door frame.
What the heck kind of car is this?? It has no in-dash guages??
The text to speech on this unit is terrible. Very muffled, sounds like the speaker is blown on these. Garmin has admitted to using highly compressed audio files for this unit.
Questionfor anyone who owns a Nuvi 255W. i have noticed a glitch on two of my units, and i was wondering if you could do the test and let me know if your unit does the same. here’s what you need to do. active the GPS Simulator mode, then GO, points of interest, the gas stations or whathever you like, choose one, but do not hit the go button. touch route info instead. when you see the route touch back and then touch map. if the glitch happens it should select back instead. altough it souldn’t.
Good job on the review. Kept it simple!
i bought this gps, it’s a great unit
Great review! I’ve been looking for a reviews of different garmin units for the past week, this is the only review that is helpful.
Nice review, just bought this unit today and love it already, and just so you know it does indeed come with a complete U.S & Canada map
Thanks for the review. I was thinking of buying this, and now im sure il buy it tommorow. Seems like a very pleasant GPS navigator.
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