Too late. Pulled the trigger.
Additional stupid questions about the 396.
The waste of a RAM mount space I'm using at the moment (the 660) is powered via the socket under the handlebars on the bike (white small socket).
Is there a ready-made cable to reuse that socket on the 396, or can I just cut the provided power cable (with that little black box...)?
Does the mount have a removable cover?
The 550 mount was very good, but a bit of a pain with corrosion/etc on the pins when keeping the bike outside.
The only good thing about that pile of crap of the 660 was the removable cover on the, otherwise, flimsy as hell mount.
Give me a couple of weeks and I'll put down a basic comparison Vs the 660. :-D
So far, it came out of the box. Connected to Garmin express > started software update > Express told me to disconnect the unit to restard > I did and it restarted > reconnected and now Garmin Express fails to "see" the unit.
Off to a good start.
I'll just update it via wifi...
It's things like this that make me reluctant to upgrade kit that I know works.
How long does the 396 last if not plugged in?
I’ve just bought a 396 and the colours do seem a bit washed out but it is readable in sunlight , the screen fonts and display are smaller than the Garmin I have been using ( nuvi 2595 car sat nav ) but that was a 5” display , just have to get used to it , might need new glasses
Not much. I ran it on batteries only once before wiring it to the bike and it died within 30 mins (might be that the battery wasn't fully charged to be honest).
660 had a longer battery life.
Now consider the sun moves across the sky, is rarely so bright that it hurts and as on average most riders will ride in any one day towards most if not all of the cardinal points on the compass...
That wouldn't be great for me.
I'm sure this will cue much eye-rolling - but can anyone tell me if the 396 supports audiobook playback?
My old Zumo 550 did; it stored the .aa files separately to the .mp3 files, so you had to select a different source on the media player, but it was very easy to use, and my pillion could hear the books easily using 'music sharing' on our Sena S20 bluetooth headsets.
I 'upgraded' to the BMW Nav 5 when I changed bikes and was put out to find I'd lost the native audiobook support. We can listen to mp3s and that's it. I haven't managed to get to hear media from my iPhone 7 reliably over bluetooth, so that's not an option.
Thanks for any advice, Steve
You can convert audio books to mp3 and listen that way