Garmin nuvi 880 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator
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Customer Review: Garmin NVI 880
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought as a gift for my wife. Works as described. Voice instructions are a strong point. FM transmission is weak and should be improved; but this is only negative. Excellent GPS!Customer Review: Good Product
Summary: 5 Stars
Very satisified with the Garmin nuvi 880.
Works as advertised. Have not had any problems.
My first GPS device. Would not hesitate to recommend.
Customer Review: Excellent!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Xmas gift for wife, she loves it!!!! Easy to use, works well. She'll never be lost again. Thanks Garmin!!!!Customer Review: Good gift
Summary: 5 Stars
This was given as a 70th birthday present for me dad who likes road trips. He is enjoying the Garmin.Customer Review: Completely Handsfree (Almost!)
Summary: 4 Stars
I gave the Garmin Nuvi 880 4 stars because, for me, it really does what I want and need. I have run into a few minor glitches that are NOT the 880's problem, but a Garmin issue.
First, the pros:
1. It gets me just about anywhere I want to go. Look, I don't care if I know a shortcut, but the Nuvi 880 doesn't. I really don't need it when navigating to places I am familiar with. But, in unfamiliar places it does a real nice job of getting me to my destination.
2. The voice activated system is great. I have used it for around a month now, and I am having few problems with it.
3. The MSN Direct has really been a nice feature. On trips to the Los Angeles area and Las Vegas it "kicked in" automatically to warn us of severe traffic situations ahead, and closed roads. I have used it to find movies and show times, as well as weather reports.
4. I am hard of hearing and use hearing aids, so I like using the connection from the Nuvi to my AUX port on my radio. I can easily hear everything the Nuvi is telling me.
5. I used it in pedestrian mode once. It worked really well. I bought a fanny pack to take it with me when I leave the car. However, it actually fits in the pocket of cargo pants.
6. I use the bluetooth feature all the time. It was absolutely no effort to sync with my phone.
7. On a recent trip I was using the "Where Am I" mode a lot. It has an elevation feature built into it. We were traveling high mountain roads and we used the Nuvi to get the elevation. It was all in fun.
Now, the Cons:
1A. I don't know why Garmin leaves every house on my street off it's maps. The street AND street name appear, BUT try putting in an address of any house on my street, and it chooses another street in the neighborhood instead. My wife has had a Garmin 300 series for a couple of years and has the same problem. She tried updating the software, but nothing changes. How many other locations are missing?
1B. Just for fun I was going to navigate to our Credit Union. The Nuvi wanted to send me to where the Credit Union Used to be located. This could be an updating issue, but the Credit Union moved around 4 years ago. This bothers me because I don't know how many potential places I could navigate to are actually in a different location, and have been for years.
2. The voice system is great. I have no real issues with it. However, it has a hard time understanding your commands if there is too much noise. Road noise is not the problem. It happens only when others are talking at the same time you are trying to give it commands. Also, my a/c was too loud once.
3. The MSN Direct is a nice feature. I would like to see it expanded into more areas. You have to be in the few service areas it has in order to receive the info. However, I know the service areas are expanding all the time. My one "BIG" complaint is the updating of this service. I used it the other day to find a movie and the times it would be playing. I should have called ahead because the movie was NOT playing at the two theaters I went to. This is no big deal because I called a third place I found. I used to Nuvi to give me the theater's phone number!
4.I tried using the FM transmitter to have a wireless hookup to my car's radio. I have had no success with it. But, the AUX port works fine.
5. As for pedestrian mode! Well, I would like to see some type of mode indicator on the main map. Why? It's no big deal, but I forgot to put the mode back from pedestrian to automobile when we in Las Vegas. On the day we left everything on the Nuvi seemed really messed up. It was telling us we wouldn't get home until some rediculous time, and it would stop telling us as we drove down the road that it was recalculating the route. It thought we were walking home (about 800 miles). My fault, and it will never happen again.
6. Bluetooth. My cell phone syncs with the Nuvi 880. But not entirely. The only thing it will let me do is make and receive calls. Not a real problem. However, my wife sync'd her phone up and got just about all of her phone's features such as address book, texting, etc. I don't text, but I would like to use my address book.
Not much to complain about. I found the Nuvi 880 to be very useful for me. I don't consider it to be an expensive toy. I really do benefit from the features it has. One more thing to consider:
I have recently (Last Year) been diagnosed with an eye condition called Macular Pucker. It does not lead to blindness, but straight lines aren't exactly straight anymore. It could clear itself up on it's own, or maybe surgery is in the future. I can read road signs, menus, and other printed material, but it is frustraing as small print letters can "run" into each other sometimes. The hands frre, voice activated Nuvi 880 allows me to bypass most of the looking at small print and typing in of names and addresses. For this feature alone it was worth every penny.
4/9/2009
Just thought I would share my experiences since last summer. The same minor issues are still there, but the Garmin is working just fine. Always getting me to m y destination, phone calls are being made and received just fine, and no major problems to report. I have used it all over the state of California without a hitch.
One of the things I have to say about this entire experience is I have learned to understand the gps instructions better. For example when it says to "stay left and continue right" It makes sense because some freeway intersections are complicated, and you don't really get it until you've experienced it. It is the small things that take a little getting used to that make the difference. As a consequence, I have rounded the learning curve. However, it did NOT take me 6 moths to accomplish this. The learning took a lot less time. I'm just updating my comments so anyone who might read them will know that I am still using the Garmin 880, and still enjoying it. I would update my rating to 5 stars because the price has really dropped so, I think it is a good bargain, and the little quirky things about gps's in general seem to disappear as the cost goes down. Also, I really like the MSN traffic alerts, and all the features that go along with it.