Garmin nüvi 50 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator(US and Canada)
Garmin nüvi 50 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator(US and Canada)
- Lane assist with junction view
- Speed limit indicator
- Trip computer records mileage, max speed, total time and more.
- Navigate right out of the box with preloaded maps and over 6 million points of interest
- Hear spoken street names
nüvi 50 delivers you safely wherever life takes you. Designed to make navigation easy, simply enter an address and premium features including lane assist with junction view, help you make all the right turns!
With a big 5” (12.7 cm) touchscreen, more than 8 million points of interest (POIs) and spoken turn-by-turn directions, nüvi 50 makes driving fun again.
Get Turn-by-Turn Directions nüvi 50’s intuitive interface greets you with two simple choices: “Where To?” and “View Map.” Touch the screen to easily look up addresses and services and to be guided to your destination with voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names. It comes preloaded with maps for the 49 States and Canada. nüvi 5
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I’ve been using GPS units for over a decade. My first unit was a Magellan hiking oriented unit. I ditched it after two weeks and got a Garmin hiking unit that lasted me 6 years. The UI was much better, and Garmin really seems to pay attention to that. When the Nuvi wide screen units came out, that was the price performance price to get me into a unit oriented for driving. I’ve had both the 200w and the 255w. The 200w was good. The 255w had subtle UI improvements such as the speed limit display.
The new Garmin 50 beats them hands down. It’s larger, and for less money than the others when they were new. The 5″ display makes a huge difference. In addition to the larger display, almost everything about the maps details, fonts for text info, icons and symbols all seem larger, beyond just scaling up for screen size. Everything is much easier to read at a quick glance. The bootup is much faster. The first couple of times, there’s a rather annoying license click-through, but it goes away after that. It hasn’t been back. There’s a “safety mode” which tries to tell you what a bad idea changing settings while driving is. It’s easy to override, and easy to turn off.
Lane assist! It works… Sometimes it’s timing is a little off… If it triggers too early you can end up in a “disappearing lane”. Too late, and it can be tough to get into the correct lane in time, so this feature isn’t an easy one to get right. It’s still a big help.
When approaching a critical intersection, the screen splits, and a “street view” of the intersection appears. A cartoon depiction. I was worried that this would be disconcerting. But it’s not. It works. It’s helpful. BTW, this size screen in a motorcycle-toughened unit would be FABULOUS. Just my view.
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