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Garmin - nüvi 2597LMT - 5" - Built-in Bluetooth - Lifetime Map and Traffic Updates - Portable GPS - Black/Gray

Garmin nüvi 2597LMT Portable GPS: Take this portable GPS along for your next trip, so you can enjoy spoken directions that mention recognizable buildings and other landmarks to guide you. With 10 million points of interest, you'll be able to travel to a variety of locales across the U.S. and Canada.

So far not impressed

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2.0

Posted by: CTGUY

from Danbury, CT

on May 30, 2014

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What's great about it: Easy to read screen

What's not so great: Poor routing, inaccurate estimated times

Picked it up yesterday at lunchtime for my wife. It was a one-day sale and given the good reviews it seemed like a good buy. When I got back to the office I uploaded current maps and software updates, which took almost an hour and a half to finish and drained most of the resources on my pc, as you have to install their Garmin program to do it. It felt like it took forever.

Using it on the way home, the first thing I noticed is that it routed me what is usually the quickest way home (it was the same route I take into work every morning), but I never go that way at 5pm because the delays getting through town are significant. I had understood that this unit accounted for traffic, but that was not the case. Not a big deal I thought, so I started the back way home and figured it would adjust. For the next 4 miles it tried to reroute me back to the original route, and it showed an arrival time in 50 minutes. Had it recognized the route I was actually taking it should have changed the route and updated the arrival time to be roughly 1/2 of that. I tried pressing the button for traffic delays and it told me there were no significant delays so it appeared not to take into account typical rush hour volume delays.

After roughly 8 miles of my 20 mile trip home it tried to guide me to a route that was twice as long time-wise as the route I was taking/normally take to get home. It was telling to take a left and that the arrival time would be 45 minutes later, but I knew I was 20 minutes from home the way I was going. (I would have preferred it also displayed the travel time). That left me little confidence in the unit, so I pulled over and checked the settings. It was preset to find the fastest route, so why it was trying to constantly reroute me onto a much longer route I have no idea. I did like that it displayed the speed limit of the road I was on as well as the speed I was traveling. Suffice to say that the rest of the ride home it never accurately estimated the arrival time.

The unit tells you the distance before you turn and never tells you to take, say "the second left" as the built-in unit in my own car does. It also was inconsistent in when it told you the distance to turn - I would have expected it would tell me when I was a mile out to prepare to turn, but it waited longer to tell me. In city traffic, having late notice of which lane to be in well before you need to actually turn would be a big problem, and I know my wife is not great with estimated distances in the first place. I looked to see if there was an option to set to modify the notice function, but could not find one.

It also doesn't let you set up a road to avoid, which is not good. I was never able to tell it to direct me a different way home, because it kept trying to constantly redirect me back to the main roads with the heaviest traffic, which might have been best except at rush hour, but they still were far longer routes than the one I was taking.

I gave it to my wife to try it today to see how she likes it, but I have the feeling I will be returning it next week.

This product has... Large/easy to see screen, Inaccurate, Free map updates

About me... Budget Conscious, Parent with kids, Business Professional, experienced gps user

No, I would not recommend this to a friend.

My Best Buy number: 0736687520

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Garmin - nüvi 2597LMT - 5" - Built-in Bluetooth - Lifetime Map and Traffic Updates - Portable GPS - Black/Gray

Can this be used right out of the box?

My husband and I need some kind of navigation and we're sick of printing out mapquest directions all the time. We are low tech and currently have "dumb phones", but considering upgrading to bluetooth capabilities for the new car we're getting.
Can this product be used right out of the box, or do you need to plug it into the car to work?
Does it have it's own power supply? what type: disposable batteries, car interface via usb connection?
Does it need to connect to the internet?

Best Answer

It CAN be used right out of the box, as when I opened it the battery was about 1/4 charged. They do however recommend that you install the latest USA map and device updates which took me roughly 90 minutes through my pc's usb port using the enclosed cable. You would want to charge it before using it extensively, by using the included charging cable that plugs into the 12 volt cigarette lighter charging ports in your vehicle. There are no replaceable/disposable batteries in it that I can tell.

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