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The 276 has always been the big daddy of sat navs.
Nice object.
Bit of an overkill for most of us mere mortals.
Couple of notes, questions:
I think a normal zumo will survive dunking too.
Same for any other satnav.
That screen is a beauty. Always wondered how complex/long is it to input keyboard data with the buttons?
Question: can a normal zumo have multiple maps too? I was under the impression that it could.
I have a few DEM maps on Basecamp, never tried to transfer them on the device.
That is great.
BTW, my Garmin Edge 25 has GLONASS too
Question, how fast is it?
A few friends have the older model (quite a few years old now), and it was very slow at recalculating routes when missing waypoints, etc. I mean very slow. Not sure what the problem was there (hardware or misconfiguration).
It's absolutely slow. If you scroll he cursor off screen it grinds to a stop, enough to put it down and wait 30 seconds for the screen to refresh.
It doesn't do full UK Postcode searching. So you can enter the first 4 digits and it'll then want a road name, so if you don't have a road name it won't let you proceed. So that's crap.
The maps are slow at rendering speeds above 80 mph, so the faster you go, the harder it tries to keep up.... and failing mostly.
The buttons are a nightmare, with deep flowchart type menu structures to get to anything, and the keyboard entry is one button click on a QWERTY keyboard. It's very slow as each letter input creates a complete search of the database before it'll allow a second input letter, then repeat the delay.
So for road navigation is absolutely crap. I would not buy this unit for that. You need a University Degree is Mapping just to get the thing installed as well. Took me two days to figure it all out, as no instructions.