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The Garmin GPS was a godsend on our hasten to Europe. If you have ever driven into cities or microscopic towns in Europe you will know how difficult it is to navigate, while trying to read foreign street signs, dodging motor scooters and bicylists, finding the true exit out of a around-about all the while being pushed along by the very aggressive drivers tedious you. But with the GPS most of that stress goes away as you know when and where to turn and you drive through towns like a native. I was very impressed that even going through the miles long tunnels of the alps the GPS must be programmed to maintain the unit tracking without a satellite signal because several minutes later coming out of the tunnel it mild provides instructions. I purchased the pricier model 270 because of the factory installed European maps. If you purchased a GPS with only North America maps and had to load the European maps the cost of those maps would be another $250. It's less money to score the 270 or 370 with maps already loaded. The windshield mounting is obliging and worked well in the rental car. The Nuvi series GPS is convenient enough in size to be carried in the pocket for walking around the cities. But it does not work as well for pedestrian purposes because it cannot sustain bearings well as you tend to rotate the arrangement and it looses it sense of direction. I read all the reviews on GPS's and chose the Garmin because of it's higher ratings for search engine, ease of exercise and maps. You will immediately become an expert user even without reading instructions with this map. It is literally that easy to utilize.
I bought the Nuvi 270 for my 24 day flow to Italy. The unit is very user salubrious for menus and visibilty. We feeble our Garmin in coordination with a TomTom 910 and our unit out mapped the TomTom every time. The mapping is broad and points of interest are edifying, but rememeber that Italian locations are not always translated the same IE; "leaning tower of Pisa" is actually "tower pendentta. The other thing you never want to do is hit "shortest route" when in Italy!!! You will slay up driving curvy mountain roads and maybe ruin up on a goat trek. We almost trippled our roam time by doing this one evening. So to kill this, I highly recommend this unit if you are going to Europe and retain it when you arrive home, cause it has even better utilize on the US roads.
I retired a couple years ago as a commercial pilot who dealt with GPS's on a daily basis and have a factory installed unit in my Acura TL.
I bought this unit to spend as a pedestrian sight-seeing in France and Switzerland. This review is only my experience trying to consume the Garmin Nuvi 270 as a pedestrian in European cities. I invent no supposition how it would work in a car in the USA nor in a car through the narrow streets of Europe or as a pedestrian in US cities..
The Garmin Nuvi 270 has a pedestrian mode and is pre-loaded with maps of Europe. At slightly over $300 the unit was very entertaining so I bought one for my slouch in May 2008.
The Good:
1.The touch shroud is very responsive
2.The conceal is very certain and intellectual.
3.3.5 high-tail hide, in my idea, is the perfect pedestrian size.
4.The database traditional is reliable by today's standards.
5.Physically the 270, in my belief, is the proper size for walking.
The Bad:
1.The first terrible feature and by far the overriding train is the Nuvi 270's inability to gather satellites in European cities . (Without Satlilite communication the Nuvi 270 is not able to navigate.) I read all the reviews posted on Amazon and elsewhere, although many mentioned this exclaim, none seemed to adequately drive this point home enough for me not to seize it. On our day glide to Strasbourg, France, I held the unit out at ½ arms length for 1 1/2 hours while walking and saw only two screens, `Acquiring satellites' or `unable to get Satellites do you want to continue'. The unit never ever acquired enough Satellites in Strasburg to even point to where we were, let alone navigate. I even stood on a round-about in the middle of a busy intersection for 20 minutes hoping it would procure enough Satellites to be functional....it did not! I cannot over stress this enough....it was useless in Paris, where it would collect for a short time and then lose them during the plod, in Geneva where it acquired them on the lake, but lost them in town. In Marseilles where it acquired them going to an island but speedy lost them in town.
2.Once acquired, satellite retention is very bad. Sometimes aircraft GPS', as well as my Acura will occupy a couple minutes to accumulate satellites, particularly if the unit has been moved while turned off, but once satellites are acquired they seldom lose reception, if ever unless you drive through a tunnel. The Garmin Nuvi 270, on the other hand, readily loses reception.
3.There is no Operating manual available for the Garmin Nuvi 270 either in the box or on the web. Only 11 speedily launch booklets in 11 languages.
4.Once you have looked for a destination it now resides in Recently found places, but cannot be deleted unless all destinations are deleted. If there is a plan I couldn't figure it out as there is no manual.
5.When charging, the unit says it is charging but never tells you when it is fully charged. I let it charge for over 24 hours and it continued to point to, `charging'..
6.The unit has a segmented bar that let's you know how powerful battery charge is left, but Garmin obviously hasn't figured out how to correlate that to time. A total of 5 bars, one would deem 2 bars would present 40% left. Obnoxious, 2 bars generally meant less than 20 minutes left of usage.
7.Does not employ glum batteries, so if you're away from your hotel, walking, you can't achieve recent batteries in; coupled with not having any sincere clue how grand charge you have left on the permanently installed battery, leads to a pickle. (How remarkable do I conserve, how grand charge is left in right time, etc.)
8.You can't understanding your meander unless you are there. For example: If I'm in the USA and I want to search for what attractions are located around the hotel I conception to discontinue in in Paris, the unit will not do it. It will only expose me the attractions located terminate to where the unit physically is at that point. (Assuming you can bag reception) .
9.The unique satellite reception strength indicator is not visible on the scheme cloak.
10.When walking, in pedestrian mode, you have two choices for veil orientation. One allows the intention to orient in the direction you are walking, the other North remains at the top of the conceal. For the short time my 270 was able to preserve satellites, I tried both. The unit's computing hasten coupled with unique satellite available accuracy makes the mode where the mask orients in the direction you are walking come useless. The cloak come continually `hunts' for honest orientation. (Perhaps when the next generation satellites are all up and SA has been removed completely, this mode will work) Best to leave it on North at the top although I could not fully evaluate this in Paris because I never had constant satellite reception long enough.
11.The shroud is easily washed out by smart sunlight.
12. No location exists on the unit to save a lanyard; this is a dilemma in that the unit's case is very serene and can breeze out of your hand easily.
All in all the unit is the apt size for a pedestrian with a nice touch conceal, but falls unacceptably short in Satellite reception capabilities and battery longevity (3-4 hours) given the batteries can't be changed. Assuming it found a few satellites where are you going to charge it during a 10 hour walking tour, or a hike, or a bike waddle?
1/18/2008: This review was once one of the most beneficial negative reviews. It now no longer lists if anyone found it advantageous and is buried deep.....is Amazon manipulating reviews?
2/1/2009: After writing to Amazon and asking them why my voting disappeared, the numbers are succor up....Amazon claims a software glitch.
