| Garmin Nuvi 265W/265WT Reviews | | | | not true. I am also struck, while the navigation |
| I have owned several GPS units, including all | | | | screen. It now seems that once a road, but |
| phone, laptop and dedicated. Flat Before I start | | | | nothing they say to start by becoming more |
| the Garmin Nuvi 265WT is the best I've ever | | | | frequent. The other thing I do not like the |
| owned. Let a few key features of the post. | | | | message that you have the faith to pursue and |
| Touch screen interface | | | | bring it to the Nav screen is a kind of screen |
| Very intuitive and easy to use. Touch screen is | | | | favorites. You have to hit the back button to get |
| sensitive, but not immediate. What I especially like | | | | back to the navigation screen. |
| the ability to switch to a top down view by | | | | How well does the transport system work. I live |
| tapping the screen. Once done you can use your | | | | in Northern VA and coverage of the whole of my |
| finger to drag the map to zoom at any time | | | | property. The radio is not present to pick up a |
| point. Once done you can hit the back button and | | | | signal without using an external antenna. |
| go to the 3D view. | | | | Unfortunately, you just go out and purchase an |
| Turn on the | | | | FM antenna .. Power Cable 3 / 32 'jack. What I did |
| There are two possibilities. You can use a Text to | | | | was to pick up the 3 / 32 'plug Radio Shack and |
| Speech voices, or a natural voice. The text of the | | | | soldered to the 4' wire to the Board of the pin |
| speech voice to give you more information, such | | | | connector. Once spread it out a window I get |
| as street names. That's what I use, and even if | | | | very frequent traffic updates. |
| you can say that this is a computer-generated | | | | Once you start getting traffic reports, I found |
| sound quality is excellent. The 265WT is not a | | | | them to be exact and they are helping. You can |
| good job to keep you updated. At any time you | | | | automatically avoid the big turnover arias, or do it |
| can hit the turn indicator, and tell the distance to | | | | manually, because they belong to. |
| next turn, so that street names and directions. | | | | I'm still debating if it adds to the general public |
| The sound is loud and noisy enough to be my little | | | | was well worth the effort. |
| Scion I have no problem hearing the messages. | | | | Bluetooth integration |
| Maps | | | | This is my favorite feature. We also keep locked |
| I found the map accuracy is good enough. I live in | | | | Motorola Q keyboard pocket of my trousers, and |
| North virgin and it appears that a number of very | | | | use the 265WT make and receive calls with my |
| very good update of new streets as well. | | | | touch of a button. My phone features are |
| Automatic routing | | | | available on the 265WT. Phonebook, call history, |
| Very effective. You can choose the quickest or | | | | voice recognition. The sound quality is quite |
| shortest way to avoid u-turns, highways, Toll | | | | acceptable on both ends. Indeed, as the echo is |
| roads, Traffic, Ferries. The automatic rerouting is | | | | not there when I get my Motorola to the 265WT |
| faster than the TeleNav on your phone and a | | | | is a hands-free kit. |
| laptop computer. | | | | I found that this is a very useless feature. If the |
| Points of Interest | | | | pictures are very high-265WT takes forever to |
| TeleNav GPS on your phone system can join the | | | | load them. This may be due to the slow access |
| business in the national database, and I know the | | | | to the SD card slot. |
| instructions, addresses and telephone numbers. | | | | There are other features, such as the ability to |
| This is the point where the 265WT below. The | | | | connect your computer to the 265WT, and |
| TeleNav system offers the advantage of online | | | | automatically added to your favorite locations |
| search. Since the 265WT has a built-in memory is | | | | using GoogleMaps. All in all, I am very happy with |
| limited to limit the number of points of interest. A | | | | my purchase and will buy again. |
| good example is looking for 'Off Broadway Shoes' | | | | FYI the Nuvi 265WT Nuvi 255W in the same unit |
| and the device can not find them. However, the | | | | without the ability of Bluetooth and FM cable relief |
| search for 'Payless Shoes' worked very well. | | | | (GTM 25). You can also buy the Garmin GTM 25. |
| Traffic Alerts | | | | If you do not want the Bluetooth feature, and |
| It happened to be flows at a price. You get the | | | | should not be based on traffic in the Nuvi 255W is |
| population increases. These are very small pop-up | | | | cheaper. |
| that can only be claimed when the menu. This is | | | | |