Disappointing Nuvi

NorthernBoy

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After several years of using a "budget" GPS, I got one of the lower-end Nuvis last week, and am pretty disappointed.

The Mio C510 that I was using previously was, I believe, basically the guts of a PDS ported into a GPS style box. I paid £100 for it over two years ago, and it came with a few bells and whistles, such as bluetooth connectivity (so it can be used as hands free telephone), MP3 Player, decent address book, and, of course a GPS. The GPS was pretty impressive. It came with the whole of Europe to street level, good speed camera functionality (such as average speed, different tone warnings if you were above or below the limit), and, something that I found very useful, a constant display of time now, distance to destination, and expected time of arrival.

The New Nuvi seems to offer much less, despite being two years newer, and costing more. First of all is the lack of distance to destination. Why on earth is this not displayed? The spoken directions seem less useful (which could just be a question of what I am used to), it has no headphone socket, no bluetooth, no MP3 player, it has an annoying warning that you have to click "agree" for whenever you turn on, and you have to hit "OK" to acknowledge that you are indoors when it cannot get a fix. The speaker is also less loud. I can hear the Mio warning on the bike while listening to my iPod, but there is no chance in hell of that happening with the new one.

It is not that it is a bad system, and the missing bits are not a surprise to me, but it just seems to not match up to the previous one which I had. I had thought that I might get the Nuvi 660 when it came out, but I can see me shifting to TomTom instead, or even getting one of the newer Mios.

Does anyone know if I am missing some way to substantially change the setup of the Nuvi (it is a 255) to, for example, switch the "arrival time" display to "remaining distance"? I bought a newer one as the mapping on my old one is just about enough out of date to start getting annoying on some journeys, and the receiver was not good enough function smoothly in the city sometimes.

Other surprising apparent omissions are that I can only add one "via" point to a route, I can't see the satellites that it is picking up, can't add a quick edit to a route on-the-fly, ad so on.

All very rum.
 
I've got the Nuvi 350 'europe' and I'm very pleased with it. Had it nearly 2 years now, driven all thru Europe and each time it has taken me to the address programmed.
Used it on the GS last summer when going thru France. Placed it in the Map cover on me tank bag, purely for reference if ever got lost..... an excellent bit of kit. Now savin me pennies for the Zumo 660....
 
My nuvi 250 does what I want, can be used in the car and on the bike, slips in a a shirt pocket and is reliable to boot.
All for the grand sum of £80 for full european mapping :thumb2
 
My nuvi 250 does what I want, can be used in the car and on the bike, slips in a a shirt pocket and is reliable to boot.
All for the grand sum of £80 for full european mapping :thumb2

Yeah, I don't really feel hard done by. I got the 255 rather than the 250 just because the processor was a bit faster, and Halfords was doing them for £110, but I am just a bit surprised how much more basic it is than my older lesser known one.

I'd just assumed that it would have more whistles and bells, given that it is two years later and £10 more.
 
I dont know the 250/255, but on my 350, if you press the screen at the 'speed' in the LH corner (or 'time of arrival' if you have it routing) then a second screen appears showing speed, distance to destination etc........is the 25x not the same :nenau

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I dont know the 250/255, but on my 350, if you press the screen at the 'speed' in the LH corner (or 'time of arrival' if you have it routing) then a second screen appears showing speed, distance to destination etc........is the 25x not the same :nenau

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Yes, but my old one had it constantly displayed. I have no interest in the GPS giving me my current speed (the bike has a speedo for that), but would prefer to always have time of arrival and miles to go, like on other systems.

I am not really sure why they don't let you chose.
 
Just a note, you don't have to press 'I agree', it disappears itself after about 10 seconds.
 
Hate my Nuvi 250. My ex got the Tom Tom and that was much more informative without hunting around for distance to go etc. And the routing you should take with a pinch of salt.

Looking for a replacement...
 


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