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MauritiusToday.com - Shopping Mall - Garmin nüvi 205W 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
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List Price: $266.66
Our Price: Too low to display
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Garmin
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Batteries Included: 1
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Garmin
Display Size: 4.3
EAN: 0753759077648
Feature: 4.3 in Touch Screen Navigator with 2D/3D Maps
Includes Mp3 Player: 1
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Garmin
Manufacturer: Garmin
Model: Nuvi 205W
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Publisher: Garmin
Studio: Garmin
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Features
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4.3 in Touch Screen Navigator with 2D/3D Maps
Turn by Turn Voice Directions and Optional MSN Direct Services
Where Am I Emergency Locator / You Always Know Your Location
With HotFix, It Calculates Your Position Faster to Get You There Quicker
JPEG Picture Viewer, World Travel Clock, Currency Converter, Calculator and More
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Editorial Reviews:
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With easy-to-use Touchscreen displays, the nuvi 205w can route to addresses, restaurants, hotels and more with turn-by-turn directions and voice guidance. nuvi 205w will say "Turn right in 500 feet." New appealing features include MSN Direct compatibility, HotFix, Garmin Connect Photos, digital elevation maps, automatic time zone updates and smoother map updates. nuvi 205w is compatible with an optional MSN Direct receiver (GDB 55). This optional MSN Direct receiver provides premium content such as traffic updates, weather, gas prices, enhanced movie listings, stock info, news, local events and a send-to-GPS feature for trip planning. nuvi 205w is the most affordable option, with mapping coverage of the lower 48 states, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. It offers five million points of interest, including hotels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs and attractions. The map data is provided by NAVTEQ, a world leader in premium-quality mapping. Bright 4.3 diagonal color display, 480 x 272 pixels, WQVGA TFT display, with white backlight High-sensitivity GPS receiver for improved performance and reception Trip computer records mileage, max speed, total time and more Built-in travel kit includes features such as picture viewer, world clock, currency and measurement converters and calculator Configurable vehicle icons - allows users to select a fun, customized car-shaped icon; users can download additional choices Offers a three-dimensional mapping perspective or 2D overhead view Built-in lithium-ion battery - lasts up to four hours depending on usage Dimensions - Width 4.8 x Height 2.8 x Depth 0.8 Weight - 6.1 ounces
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Perfect GPS for the Price
Comment: This GPS works great. Tons of features for the price. Yes voice announcing of the road would be nice but it's also rather annoying. The GPS graphically displays each street as well as the next street that you turn on. So for me this GPS was fantastic. Love the feature of finding stores, gas stations, ... Only reason for not giving it 5 stars is that they did not include Canada and Alaska for the road database. I had to purchase that database separately and I felt that if they had North America roads then they should have had all of North America.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Garmin nuvi 205W
Comment: For the money, this is the best GPS navigatoron the market. It is absolutly easy to program and operate. Directions are clear and undestandable. Places of special interest are loeaded nad ready to go. It even gets you around out here in Montana on very lonely roads and remote locations.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's an OK unit.
Comment: It's supposed to be faster than the previous line of products (thanks to a faster processor) but it doesn't feel that way. I had a Nüvi 350 (hated the flip up antenna though it seems it really helped with the reception) and a TomTom One (2d generation) and I don't remember them being much slower than the Nüvi 205W.
My other grip with it is that it will act-up when I am stopped (at a Stop sign or red light for instance). The screen shows the car making incoherent movements and this forces a route re-calculation. Everything goes back to normal when I resume the driving.
Further, it takes a pretty long time to acquire a lock on satellites signal It really pisses me off. My only device slower than this is my Nokia E71 cellphone (sucks at GPS).
Last, I would recommend the widescreen over the regular screen size to the ones who are hesitating/ wondering whether it's worth the extra money.
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Summary: GPS for Dummys
Comment: While planning an extensive trip Up-East through NH. VT and ME I decided that I needed some serious navigation help. I read everything imaginable about every imaginable GPS. Confusing? Yup. I finally was faced with a deadline and threw a mental dart. Garmin 255. Found the 205 instead for $50.00 less. The only difference being that the 255 tells you what street/road you will turn on. 205 simply gives you a written ID at the top. For $50.00 I learned to read. We flew to Manchester NH and took off on our voyage. The GPS was given a nickname of LuLu (american english) and Phoebe (british english). She performed perfectly except for 3 occasions.
1. She kept insisting that we turn left onto a one way street.
2. She led us down a road that dead ended into a golf course. It turns out that the road did in fact continue on the the other side of the golf course.
3. This is the best one. She insisted that we were to drive across a pedestrian bridge in Brattleboro Vermont.
I found that LuLu was extremely simple to operate and that comes from someone who is technologically challenged (read techo-dunce).
Customer Rating:
Summary: No complaints so far...
Comment: I am very satisfied with the Garmin 205W. It's very easy to use as Garmin makes one of the best user interfaces on the market. The screen is good sized and bright. I have never had to wait more than 10-15 seconds for it to acquire satellites. It redraws (refreshes) often and quickly. I also LOVE that the speed limit is displayed for most streets and highways, especially when in unfamiliar territory.
Even with the new changes/upgrades, I don't know if it's worth the cost to upgrade from a 200, but if you're considering getting a cheap 200 now that it's the old model, I would pay the extra for the 205.
I was also strongly considering the 255W, but decided that having maps of Canada/Alaska and spoken street names weren't that important to me. The instructions are clear enough, and if I really need to know the street name I can easily glance down and check.
Any negatives? It would be nice if it came with a wall AC adapter (along with the car one) and an appropriate USB cable, though that's cheap and easy to find. The screen was poorly calibrated out of the box and it was a hassle to figure out how to recalibrate it (turn it off, slide and hold the on/off switch to the left for 30 seconds, follow the on-screen prompts). The problem is that most of the instructions are actually contained on the NUVI itself rather than a manual. This is great most of the time, but when the problem is that the unit thinks you're touching the screen in a place different from where you actually are, it creates problems trying to find the info.
Overall I am very pleased with this purchase. I also highly recommend the corresponding Garmin friction mount.
Note: I see a lot of people complaining about it not being any faster at acquiring satellites than the 200. The way that Garmin tried to fix the problem with the 200 taking several minutes to acquire was to have the 205 "track" the satellites even while off. When you shut down the 205, it knows its location and that of the satellites. When you turn it back on, it "knows" where to look for the satellites by calculating where they were, where they were going, and how much time has passed. If you only turn your GPS on once a week or turn it off and then turn it on again in a new location, it's going to have to search from scratch, which takes longer (though it has never taken more than a few minutes for me... maybe 3 at the very most).
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