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| Guest |
 Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:35 pm |
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Well, Garmin sure makes it easy to find sunrise/sunset on the nuvi680.
All you gotta do is drive around until the screen changes lighting
scheme at sunrise/sunset! Gosh, how the heck could we improve on such
a simple interface? Not like that nasty old 60cx where sunrise/sunset
times were actually displayed in plain english, anytime of the day. I
guess that's the kind of the interface genius that over $800 buys you
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| RHinNC |
| Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:13 pm |
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Garmin figures most idiots don't need that kind of information.
Hey, strike that, I am an idiot who is just not buying the watered down
GPS's of today.
<nellie4526@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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Quote: Well, Garmin sure makes it easy to find sunrise/sunset on the nuvi680.
All you gotta do is drive around until the screen changes lighting
scheme at sunrise/sunset! Gosh, how the heck could we improve on such
a simple interface? Not like that nasty old 60cx where sunrise/sunset
times were actually displayed in plain english, anytime of the day. I
guess that's the kind of the interface genius that over $800 buys you
nowadays.
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| Don B |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:28 am |
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RHinNC wrote:
Quote: Garmin figures most idiots don't need that kind of information.
Hey, strike that, I am an idiot who is just not buying the watered down
GPS's of today.
Believe or not that's exactly what a Garmin tech told me about the Nuvi
line, that they were a dumbed down GPS, and that most people that buy
them just want to get from point A to point B. She went on to say that
the SP 2610 didn't sell real well because people thought it was too
complicated to use. I have owned the SPIII, still have a 2610 and a 2820
and except for the SPIII not having enough memory, have never regretted
buying any of them. |
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| Mike Lane |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 2:34 pm |
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On Thu, 1 May 2008 12:28:55 +0100, Don B wrote
(in article <0ZgSj.1243$cL3.447@newsfe06.lga>):
Quote: RHinNC wrote:
Garmin figures most idiots don't need that kind of information.
Hey, strike that, I am an idiot who is just not buying the watered down
GPS's of today.
Believe or not that's exactly what a Garmin tech told me about the Nuvi
line, that they were a dumbed down GPS, and that most people that buy
them just want to get from point A to point B. She went on to say that
the SP 2610 didn't sell real well because people thought it was too
complicated to use. I have owned the SPIII, still have a 2610 and a 2820
and except for the SPIII not having enough memory, have never regretted
buying any of them.
Yes, that's what I've always understood about the Nuvi range. I bought one of
the lower range models for my daughter a year ago, and she's very happy with
it. (But then all she ever wants to do is to go from A to B like the majority
of the population.) However I'm looking for something to replace my SP 2610
in the next year or so as it's now discontinued and I suspect it won't be
supported with annual map updates for much longer.
I'm thinking about the high end Nuvi models like the 760, and even more
interesting the 860 when it's released with voice recognition. From what I
can see from the specs these do most of the important things that I am used
to with the 2*** SP units. They will do routes with multiple via points and
save them (albeit only 10 rather than the 50 that my 2610 can store). They
also have a more sensitive receiver (*and* a battery)> Can anyone tell me if
there's anything important that the 760/860 Nuvis can *not* do?
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Mike Lane (UK North Yorkshire)
To contact me replace invalid with mike underscore lane |
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 9:05 pm |
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Don B <buroker@charter.net> wrote:
Quote: RHinNC wrote:
Garmin figures most idiots don't need that kind of information.
Hey, strike that, I am an idiot who is just not buying the watered down
GPS's of today.
Believe or not that's exactly what a Garmin tech told me about the Nuvi
line, that they were a dumbed down GPS, and that most people that buy
them just want to get from point A to point B. She went on to say that
the SP 2610 didn't sell real well because people thought it was too
complicated to use. I have owned the SPIII, still have a 2610 and a 2820
and except for the SPIII not having enough memory, have never regretted
buying any of them.
Sorry to hear that. When I got the nuvi680, the main selling point to
me was the MSN connectivity. Right now, there's a two year highway
project in my local area with all kinds of road closures. I saw that
MSN was supposed to keep track of road closures and route around them.
So that was my plan for the highway closures. *WRONG* on that count
too. All it does is the highway closures, no side roads, etc. closed
due to construction. So, it will route you around the closure, but
then give you directions to a dead end because of a street closure. It
also tries to silly routing, such as trying to have me make a right
turn, then left onto an unsignaled 4 lane road, even though there's a
left turn signal (and has been for 25 years) at the same intersection.
Many other examples where the nuvi680 takes a dumb route and the
gpsmap60cx takes the smarter route.
I've been a garmin owner since the GPS12 days. I've got to say that
in many ways the nuvi680 has been a huge disappointment. |
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