1. Coffey Said,

   I recently purchased the Garmin nuvi 260W for a trip to Newark, New Jersey and then on to Massachusetts. Since I was deviating from my normal route and had to go into the city rather than around it, I figured it was a good excuse to buy a GPS.

   Overall I was pleased with the product. The turn-by-turn directions were perfect and the countdown by tenths of a mile to feet was helpful. However, my husband found “Samantha’s” voice totally annoying.

   The one downfall I had with the product (and this could be chalked up to user error) was that our trip from NJ to MA was via the George Washington Bridge (thru Manhattan)!! What a harrowing ordeal - I was ready to toss the GPS over the bridge by the time we got through there!

   The reason I suggest it might be user error is that I would like this product to be more interactive. I have not been able to figure out how to put in just a city or a specific point without having to have an actual address. An ideal addition - and this may be available on other Garmin GPS units - would be to click and point where you want to go without having to use VIA points. (Sort of like the revised Mapquest allows). That way I could have gone on the Garden State Parkway over the Tappan Zee Bridge, even if it may have taken longer.

   The only other issues I had with it was that it seemed to lose the satellite signal rather frequently and a few times it suddendly showed we were on a secondary road even though we had been on the same interstate highway for miles and miles and should continue to do so.

   I’ll continue to use it, but will keep my Rand McNally road atlas nearby

2. Nickens Said,

   The Garmin worked as well as advertised and even has features that weren’t advertised that I love. It was perfect for my move from NC to FL. This version is not the newest and so is cheaper, but I wouldn’t trade it for one of the newer ones because it does exactly as I want.

3. Doane Said,

   I did a bit of research before buying the nuvi 260W. It’s so simple to use - just plug in and go. I used it the first time for a 250 mile trip. Directions were clear, concise, accurate and repeated several times before I need to make a turn. It gives me confidence when I travel. All I have to do is put the address and go and don’t have to be the least bit concerned that I’ll get lost.

4. Oshen Said,

   Great GPS for the price. If i had to do over - I would purchase the 255 with lifetime traffic. Other than that, this is a fantastic GPS. It has never made an error, gives very clear directions, and the maps are easy to follow. I have used Tom Tom and Magellan’s in the past. This GPS is much better, a great product. I gave it 4 stars because of the lack of traffic information.

5. Frances Said,

   I’ve been using a Garmin Nuvi 260W for over a year and I do a lot of traveling. It works OK about 75% of the time, but the 25% takes me off route and to the wrong locations. And the dealbreaker for me is the long long long waits for customer service. I don’t have time to wait 30 minutes to talk with someone. I’m now in the market for another brand.

6. Monohan Said,

   I knew about the problems people had been having with these units, so I made sure to install the firmware update before I updated the maps. And guess what - it still died. So now I have a brand-new GPS that won’t even switch on, and I have to send it back to Garmin and wait a couple of weeks to get it fixed. Man, I hope someone starts a class-action suit against these clowns.

7. Cantrell Said,

   I have had my Garmin 755t for 8 months now and it has worked perfectly until the recently discovered software problem caused it to fail. Garmin had sent me (as a registered user) a notification about the bug, but I did not update the software as soon as I should have. The device failed on a trip. There was an easy to complete repair form on their web site and Garmin emailed a link to a prepaid UPS shipping label. I shipped the device on a Friday, Garmin received it on Monday and I had it back in my hands on Thursday. Not a bad turnaround considering UPS ground shipping is used. Lessons learned is that if you are notified about a software bug and a patch is made available; apply the patch before you take your next trip!

8. Marr Said,

   Garmin Nuvi 755t: At best, I rate this unit at one star.

   This is my third GPS unit. My recent 9000 mile round trip vacation to Fairbanks, Alaska through 10 States and 5 Canadian Provinces was my first long trip with the 755t and my fifth multi-thousand mile road trip vacation with a GPS.

   Every time I pulled off the route to fill up with fuel or take a rest break the 755t, though left powered on, would lose its mind and was just as likely to tell me to take a U-turn and backtrack my route as it was to have me go down side roads or non existent dirt roads. Seldom did it correctly direct me back to the route to my selected destination until being several thousand feet back on the route. It frequently had gas stations and restaurants on the wrong side of the road. We learned to ignore its incorrect directions after a stop.

   The 755t does not display names of towns along the route - just a long purple line through empty space. It always had plenty of blank room on the screen to show city names, the Garmin designers decided we didn’t need to see locations and names of cities along our route; they decided all we need to see is a long purple line. Watch the road signs, not the GPS screen for cities ahead. So if you happen to be driving the Alaskan Highway in Yukon Territory or British Columbia, forget about getting any indication from the 755t how far ahead the next town is or the 755t even identifying the name of a town as you approach and pass through it. It may automatically jump into a magnified view of city streets as you pass through, but will not indicate the name of the city. It also doesn’t identify on the screen names of rivers or lakes you cross.

   In the list of favorites or recently found addresses it doesn’t bother giving the city or state/province name, just the street address - not very helpful when you are trying to keep tract of many attractions, hotels, etc in several cities and states. There is PLENTY of available blank space on the screen to list city names and state/province abbreviations, Garmin decided for us that we didn’t need that information.

   How bad is it? It is bad enough that the 755t doesn’t contain information on locations of interstate rest stops or on State and Province Information Centers - better have good paper road maps if you want that info. In fact, if you buy a 755t for a cross country multi-state road trip contact the states/provinces you will be travelling through for free paper maps by mail - you’ll need to frequently use the maps to supplement the 755t. Garmin, how about adding locations of interstate highway rest stops and state/province Information Centers and also identify if they have restroom facilities.

   Reflections in the windshield: The 755t has a bright silver band around it - could be metal or maybe metalized plastic. When the unit is mounted to the windshield with the provided suction cup mount, the silver band on top of the unit reflects off the inside of the windshield into my eyes and the brighter the sunlight the brighter the reflection - should be flat black to eliminate reflections.

   The release button on the mount: It’s located on the bottom of the mount, the button ends up pressed against the dash top and as a result the 755t sometimes popped out of its mount. With the button on the bottom, the 755t was impossible to remove when the suction cup was mounted low on the windshield. To remove the 755t it was necessary to remove the suction cup from the windshield or snap the mount from the suction cup ball. Release button should have been put on the top of the GPS mount so you could easily remove the GPS from the windshield mount.

   “Where To?” function: When you press the “Where To?” button it goes to two pages of options. There is a trick trap on the options pages. It is at the bottom labeled as “Near”. Garmin decided for you that the unalterable default would be “Where I Am Now”. “Where I Am Now” is useless when traveling on a rural cross country toll road or interstate highway where you want to find fuel, food, lodging etc along the route ahead, not behind you or in cities miles off the route to the side. This means that EVERY Time you use “Where To?” for “Points of Interest” you must remember to first select “Near” and press the button for “My Current Route” before selecting “Points of Interest”.

   The “Intersection” option for “Where To?” never did work for me, the 755t requires such exact lettering of street names that it would always fail to find one of the two street names entered.

   The “Address” option for “Where To?” does not have a listing for the center of a city, so if you are trying to find rough mileage to a city you are forced to select some random exact address in the city. Garmin, how about adding “City Center” to the list of street names - the same city centers the states use to produce distance signs on roads. But, Wait. I just found a function on page two of the “Where To?” options pages labeled “Cities” which seems to provide distances to city centers. I typed in “Fargo” looking for distance to Fargo, ND. The 755t gave me a random list of 14 cities in 12 states named Fargo, not in order by distance from my location, nor in order of state names - just a five page random list I had to scroll through to find Fargo, ND. Good Grief, looks like Garmin could list cities in distance or state name order.

   The Touch Screen “buttons”: Get a stylus. I found the QWERTY screen impossible to use without a stylus. On other screens the “buttons” are so small with SO LITTLE DEAD SPACE between buttons that I was constantly activating an adjacent button by mistake. Yes, I calibrated button clicks - may times. Garmin must have designed the 755t for users with pencil thin fingers.

   Garmin only gives you one overarching option for units of measure, miles or kilometers. When driving in Canada I would have liked to have been able to display speed in Kilometers per hour (KPH) and elevation in feet rather than in meters and distance to destination in miles rather than kilometers. That way I would have had a digital speedometer in KPH but have been able to view elevation and distance in familiar units of measure.

   Traffic worked once - in Kansas City, MO - information was old - there was no traffic congestion.

   Lanes function did show up for exits I wasn’t taking. Never saw it for my exits.

   The 755t is a big disappointment and is definitely not worth the $320+ I paid.

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