city search - Spelling vs Flitering

[markie_wales]

Hi

Just been away with my friend, I've got a 2610, he has a recently acquired Zumo 550, and I was paying close interest in his 550 because I'm getting tempted. Yes his 550 hung twice, but we managed to re-start it with POWER-+ etc, but what I saw a a step backwards was the difference in the way we could search for places.

Take "Sainte Menehoul" for instance. On my 2610 I could just filter for "Mene" and a second later there it was. On the 550 we had to spell it all out correctly. Now from what I remember some of the places we had to spell exactly right "sainte" rather than "saint", but generally we thought it was a bit of a pain.

Is there anyway to make the 550 "filter" rather than "spell"?

On his 550 hanging - what do you reckon, send it back?

chers

Markie

 

[mitchly]

Send it back, they cost enough. Has your mate kept his up to date? Did a couple of tests on mine. Got CADI of cadigan road and was given several options. Is that the filtering you are talking about?

 

[markie_wales]

Micthly

OK I'll get him to send it back - as you say ~£400 is enough for it to work.

In terms of filtering, it is more that with the Zumo you need to spell from the start of the word - "CADI" in your example, where as on the 2610 I can search for "IGAN" and still get it. Not the worlds best example but with all the "saint-de-le-" type names in France my ability (2610) to just enter "Marie" for example rather than "saint-de-le-marie" was a real boon. Especially as our paper maps often left out the prefix.

cheers

Markie