Garmin nüvi 1250T 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic

I don’t own the Garmin nuvi 1250T, but I have played around with the demo version at Best Buy. It’s very awesome. I be fond of how compact, convenient, and thin it is.

Features:

I be fond of the new menu interface, especially where I use the finger to swipe up/down the screen instead of touching the arrows at the bottom of the screen, so it’s greatly less tedious to scroll. Also, what’s new is that on the map screen, I can even switch between the arrival time, current time, distance to destination, elevation, and the approximate time to destination by touching the lower-left corner of the screen. I even be fond of how it displays the speed limit in the lower-right corner, so I don’t have to worry about getting a speeding ticket and question pedestrians “what’s the speed limit?”

Above and beyond the menu interface and the map screen, it speaks the street names louder than the older models, so it’ll say something be fond of “in 0.2 mile, curve right on SE Anderson Rd” louder. I be fond of how it speaks the street names so I don’t have to take my eyes off the road, and it’s even fantastic for cities where the roads are very close to each additional. Therefore, whenever I buy a GPS device, I’ll certainly buy one that speaks the street names out loud. You should certainly get one that speaks the street names if you travel a lot.

I also heard that this device comes w/ a traffic receiver and the free lifetime traffic too, so I don’t have to order another separate traffic receiver from garmin.com and keep paying $50/yr to renew my traffic subscription. Plus, I heard from somebody that you don’t need to use a computer to install traffic status on this device, so you just simply join the traffic receiver to the device to get the free traffic status. The voices that speak the street names can also announce the traffic alerts out loud, but the basic voice prompts that don’t speak the street names don’t announce that.

This device also has the ecoRoute, which helps me save gas and money!!! How I make it work is that I just program the current gas price and the city/highway gas mileages of my car into the device, and it’ll automatically calculate the fuel cost to get to a destination. I can also go to the background menu and then select “less fuel” under Route Preference if I want the most fuel-efficient route.

Not single those features, this thing even has millions of points of interests be fond of restaurants, shopping malls, movie theaters, theme parks, museums, airports, gas stations, and schools!!!!!!!! But, you wanna be attentive that some points of interests may be outdated. Update your GPS maps once a time if you want the most up-to-date points of interests, and every time you update your maps costs about $90, so that’ll cost you single about $7.50/mo to update your maps. You can buy map updates (either in the micro SD card format or DVD format) at Best Buy or download through garmin.com.

But here are some minor issues:

-No QWERTY keyboard, but it takes me a while to get used to the ABC format, although I can type very quick with the QWERTY keyboard on my laptop. If I want one w/ the QWERTY keyboard, I’ll have to buy the one w/ the 4.3″ screen (the nuvi 1350T), which costs $100 more than this one.

-No lane help (must buy the nuvi 1350T).

-No bluetooth (I don’t need that unless I have to deal w/ people at my job and family situations).

Overall, this is a fantastic device that can help you go to places w/o asking people for directions. It really saves you time, money, gas, paper, life, and it even relieves a lot of your stress!!! I’ll give it an overall grade of A- since it has some minor issues I mentioned above.

If you’re gonna buy a excellent, helpful GPS without spending too greatly money, this is the kind you should buy. They sell it at Best Buy for $250.

Hope this review’s helpful.

I agree with that there must be something incorrect with this model. I got this model as a birthday gift in Dignified, and the screen’s frozen more times than it works. It sometimes shuts itself off, sometimes it won’t curve off even if pressing the power button, and sometimes won’t curve on…get another model than this one. Generally speaking Garmin’s are fantastic…no clue what happened with the 1250T

I bought this device because I have to travel from one city/job to another during rush hour on a daily basis. If I chose the ‘right’ route, and traffic was fine, I’d be on time. Otherwise… well, needless to say it was very worrying making the drive. Online traffic was obsolete within 15 minutes of getting out on the road.

This GPS is very simple to use. It checks the traffic very frequently (possibly constantly?). I place of protection’t had it long but already it has sometimes directed me to get off the freeway and take an alternate route. Happily, it lets me know a change is looked-for before I am even attentive that there is a problem up ahead. I no longer stress about traffic, straining to see what may lie ahead; I know I’m taking the best route available, so that’s that!

The downsides- it automatically switches to a dimmer background when it is night. It is too dim for me, and I have yet to figure out how I might bring to a standstill it from doing that. I can change the brightness when it happens, but it’s hard to do when I can hardly see the screen. In fairness, I have read NOTHING from the blue-collar; just started by it out of the box, and this is the single problem I’ve had as far as working the device goes. It is very simple to use.

Occasionally, the device has at sea satellite reception when there has been inclement weather. So far that has single affected reception for traffic, it has been very brief, and the map feature has still worked (the trip was already plotted). I still know it as an indication that if I were to take a longer trip, it makes excellent sense to print a map from online (as a backup) before I go. For an extended trip, be attentive that it gave a time of arrival, but not a day of arrival (unless I should have read the blue-collar to learn to switch views or something).

Lastly, it does appear to consider the speed limit when calculating arrival time. But, I reckon that it does not consider traffic lights. Add in whatever minutes you anticipate needing for that purpose, as there seems to be a slight underestimation in travel time. It still gets me to work quicker than I was getting there on my own, so overall I am THRILLED with this buy. If anything happened to my Garmin, I’d buy another one immediately. It has been well worth the price in stress reduction and making me look wonderful as the employee who is now always early!

UPDATE 2 months later: Well, the voice just went out on the unit. I finally opened the blue-collar and it is under warranty for a time, through Garmin. I’m going to follow their directions to send it back, and I will update again here about what happens. I guess because the additional reviewer had more tribulations, I won’t be sad if I end up just getting a refund and getting a different Garmin unit, but the blue-collar does state that it is the company’s choice whether to fix it or send a refund.