The Garmin nuvi 260W GPS is a great little gps:
The text to speech is clear, the screen is more than bright enough, the maps are large on the 4.3 inch screen. Route calculation is fast.
I regularly utilization it on battery power which is long, 4 or 5 hours, steady more if you turn down the screen brightness.
However, it seemed toward first that satellite acquisition was very slow, sometimes inasmuc as long inasmuc as 12 minutes.
I recall i found a convention around that.
If i turned the gps do the off toward home, it located satellites within 30 seconds of being turned on again toward the same location; if turned do the off before arriving home, which i was in the habit of doing, it took about 12 minutes to acquire the present location.
It seems it did not know where to appearance because of the satellites, plus took a lot of time finding them. A software fault probably, but workable.
After i discovered this, i left the unit on raise to my destination plus the problem was solved.
Something nobody seems to have mentioned; when a store or restaurant is located by this unit, it gives the address and the phone number of the intended location, plus i lav call ahead plus make sure they are open plus have what i want. This gain saved extremely mass time.
Also, touching the car icon on the map gives you a workable “where am i?” which lav be saved to favorites.
The 260w does not have all the features of a higher end garmin gps, like routing, blue tooth, traffic, etc, but garmin gain deliberately omitted these from the (slightly) lower end products.
The documentation is very limited, but reading a downloaded pdf because of the garmin 350 helps withy the 260w.
Garmin seems to believe that no one wants to read a manual.
All in all, a very suitable gps, very facile to utilization. Garmin may have proved that no manual is needed.
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