Garmin nüvi 2597LMT 5-Inch Bluetooth Portable Vehicle GPS with
- Easy-to-use, dual orientation, touchscreen interface
- Garmin Real Directions with Garmin Real Voice guide using recognizable buildings and landmarks
- PhotoReal and Bird’s Eye junction views offer detailed images of junctions along your route, to ease the stress of merging on or off a roadway
- Up Ahead displays nearby services info -including restaurants, stores, hospitals and fuel -alongside your map and updates as you drive your route
- Sleek mount attaches from behind, for less distraction
Bright Display nüvi 2597LMT has a bright 5.0″ display with dual-orientation capabilities, for use horizontally or vertically. Detailed Maps with Free Updates nüvi 2597LMT arrives loaded with detailed maps of North America. With free lifetime¹ map updates, your routes are sure to reflect the most up-to-date maps, POIs (points of interest) and navigation information. New maps are available for download up to 4 times per year, for the life of your device, with no fees. With so much data, nüvi 2597LMT makes it easy to find addresses and millions of POIs such as businesses, stores, restaurants and other destinations. nüvi 2597LMT arrives preloaded with POIs, so there’s no need for you to enter that address information. Just select
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M. Ketteman
April 14, 2013Great GPS, Big Improvement from Old Model,
For work, I have to fly to different cities and drive a rental car to different address. A GPS is mandatory and after 10 years, it was time to upgrade from my Magellan. I first tried the Garmin 2595LMT, the older version of this GPS on sale at Costco. After a week, I took it back to Costco, I wasn’t happy with four major issues.
The new model on sale here, 2597LMT, was due out any time. Only had to wait a week and I’m really glad I did; Garmin fixed all four issues.
*The first issue I had was how the old unit clipped onto the base, to get it to release using one hand, half the time it would slip out of control and fall to the floor. The new design lets you get a good grip and release it at the same time.
*The voice was terrible, I couldn’t understand half of the street names it was saying. I have a stock GPS in my 2006 Honda that sounded 10 times clearer. The new model now sounds just as clear or better then the stock Honda.
*This new GPS has a LCD display that is not affected by polarized sunglasses, wow, what a difference! The old model would turn dark with a slight tilt of your head.
*They got rid of the “Real Picture” of ramps and exits! Real picture sounds like a great idea, until you try to glance at a 2.5 by 2.5 busy picture and make out what lane your suppose to be in; really bad idea. This new one uses a great birds eye animated graphic that highlights the lanes you need to be in; you can just glance and see where you want to be.
I’ve only had this for a short time, but so far it’s exceeded my expectations. There are a lot of other features, but for me the top features are the basic ones; seeing, hearing, and handling. The Costco unit did came with the upgraded HD Traffic cable, this one only has Garmin Traffic, I will probably pay the $60 for the HD power cable.
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|Charles H. Meyer Jr.
April 14, 2013A Nice Upgrade,
I purchased this to replace an older 5″ garmin that did not have lifetime maps. I was getting tired of being nagged to pay for a map update on the older unit. Also I wanted to upgrade to a Bluetooth device.
I am impressed overall with the improved speed and sophistication of this device. Connecting to a satellite is improved considerably. Seriously it just takes seconds. My last unit kept searching for a satellite connection so long I was afraid I’d get lost in the process.
No more “recalculating” exclamations when you go off the suggested route. It quickly displays your new route with the suggested next turn.
There are many more split screen “junction view” occurrences. These rarely appeared on my last unit.
The user menu and graphical display has also been improved. The graphics appear cleaner and there is a menu tab on each screen.
Regarding Bluetooth, The ability to use as a speaker phone when connected to your mobile device is nice.
The Voice Command system is good but not great. it’s fine when reciting pre-defined menu options but is hit or miss (mainly miss) when speaking addresses.
The build of the unit is solid. Slightly thinner and curvier than previous units.
I have not had any traffic alerts so really can’t comment on that function yet.
I’m happy with the improved performance of this unit.
If Voice command and the speaker function are not important to you, you could save some cash buy getting the 2557 model.
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