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I would recommend this unit to anyone looking for a simple GPS unit that works great. This is the best unit I have seen for the price. The large screen is easy to read and the options are easy to use. The only flaw that I have experienced is that it is slow to find satellites. Usually it takes up to 5 minutes to get a signal. Once found it has been flawless. Once on and turned off and turned back on within an hour or less it finds the signal quickly. It seems to only take long when it sits overnight. All said, I know that this unit performs.
I have used my Garmin 250W for about a week and I think it is a GREAT entry level unit. The widescreen boasts great brightness and easy to read streets. Speaker is very loud and clear (though I usually keep it muted) and very easy to find directions anywhere you want. It lacks some of the higher end features like bluetooth and voice to text, but for the price it is a very clean functional unit. The Garmin suction cup is very robust and has not fallen, even during hard cornering.
This model was my first entry into the GPS world. I was pleasantly surprised by the interface which made entering in addresses or even finding generic locations like "nearby Chinese restaurants" mindlessly easy. I'd call this an ideal GPS in the $150-200 range. I do have a couple knocks on this product though. Firstly, the map doesn't give directions to residential areas well, with their snaking roads and cul-de-sacs, and I tested mine in suburban Kansas City. Secondly, the GPS doesn't ship with two crucial items for non-techies; an installation CD and a USB cable to connect to your computer. Upgrading the map took forever and was a very buggy process that a non-techie might not get through since software needed to be downloaded from the internet.
If you were lost in a new city it is awesome. Going someplace familiar makes you realize it sometimes picks silly routes. It can get confused at complex intersections and actually instructed me to pass a right turn then go backwards on the next onramp on the right to get to the same place if I had just turned right. Obviously I ignored the instructions and it recalculated the route. On the return trip it remembered how I went and matched it. If you go to garmin.com there are extras you can buy but I had fun downloading all the different cars, trucks, motorcycles, and other stange things that can represent your location on the map. The other thing that was cool, I set the location as Sea World in simulation mode and then looked up hotels and restaurants by distance.
Received my Nuvi 250 and it worked right out of the box as advertised. It's very easy to use, even my wife (who can't operate anything electronic) was able to figure it out. My only problem was with the mapping. I set it for the local Lowes and about a mile short of reaching Lowes, the GPS told me that we were at the destination. I also tried to find the local Sam's Club. It found Sam's Clubs in Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville and a few other towns, but not the one just 5 miles from my home. Obviously, this is a problem with the maps which are current. But it found the directions to my daughters home in Indiana and other addresses I punched in to the "favorites" section. All-in-all, I am very happy and think my purchase was a good one. I haven't tried the additional features like currency conversion and calculator, but I was only interested in the GPS feature so they don't matter to me.Read full review
