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I bought it for the traffic feature. It is simply not work in Washington D.C. Metro area.
It gives incorrect traffic information on the road. When it is showed heavy traffic (in red color) on route 267, I turned on the road and found no traffic at all. It is the opposite direction bumper-to-bumper.
Its detour feature also too terrible. It directed me to a single lane, 35mph road as detour to highway, and it is really jammed. I spent at least half hour more than not taking detour. I guess the small road would not have traffic information and the algorithm always assume no traffic when information not available.
Traffic feature is failed by design.
I would not return it if it still work as a basic GPS without traffic. Right after I bought the GPS, I downloaded the latest map. But it failed in this aspect miserably.
1. Give incorrect direction
I went to the post office Herndon, Virgina. It told me to curve right when post office is on the left side. Fortunately, no huge building on the right and post office is so evident on the left, so I didn’t at sea. The post office had built at least three years.
2. Shutdown automatically
During my first five trips around Washington D.C. and Virginia, the device shutdown automatically three times in the middle of pouring. It shutdown two more time in my following trip. I could not figure out why. And it could not come back at all. I need to wait at least five minutes or more to power it on. How miserable feeling when you need to know where to curve.
I do noticed it always shutdown itself for long street name when I have speak-out street feature on. The words signal distorted and then shutdown. This could be caught by thorough testing. Another time is I know the route and want to test this GPS. When I didn’t follow its direction several times, it shutdown itself. My friend told me GPS had attitude when I didn’t follow its guidance.
This is my first Garmin and I am so surprised by its terrible quality.
NO PHONE CALLS THROUGH STEREO!
I am pleased with the Garmin, but one of the reasons I selected this unit was because in the Amazon product description the unit is described as life able to announce traffic alerts AND CELL PHONE CALLS through the car’s FM radio. This was an enormous attraction to me as I drive a convertible, & hand-free speakers just don’t cut it with the top down. Well, the description is incorrect (or WAS, if Amazon has corrected it.) The unit will NOT do this. It IS Bluetooth, and functions as a hands-free set, but with all the caveats normally associated with such sets. Bummer.
I chose to keep the unit anyway, but, because otherwise it is brilliant. The modern features, such as showing the speed limit of the road you’re on, as well as your current speed, (among additional features) make this unit very useful & simple to use. I like it. But… back to the ancient Bluetooth earbud.
The Garmin nuvi 1260T is a marvelous piece of equipment. Very simple to use, very simple to read. It has the perfect size to glance from time to time as you drive and you can even take it with for some city expeditioning, if that is your be fond of. A fantastic investment that will not let you down. I certainly recommend it.
Overall it is very nice device. I be fond of the small size, and traffic status features.
I would be fond of to top out couple of things any buyer should be attentive of before purchasing this device:
* Bluetooth handsfree feature is of limited use. It not problem of this particular device, just having such small speaker and microphone so far from your face makes it hard to use due to car noise.
* On small screen diplomacy they single offer ABCDEF keyboard not QWERTY. If you used to QWERTY it is major pain to type on it.
Above and beyond that it is nice small device, very useful I recommend it as inexpensive GPS solution.
Garmin is known for it’s versatile GPSs. But, their incessant referral to it’s Bluetooth technology needs a small explanation. It is single viable to a limited number of cellphones with Bluetooth. If this option is vital, I highly advise that you first check that your phone is compatible with this device.
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