NorthernBoy
Registered user
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 I bought a newer one as the mapping on my old one is just about enough out of date to start getting annoying on some journeys, and the receiver was not good enough function smoothly in the city sometimes.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.
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.
