Garmin nüvi 1450 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
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The ultra-thin nüvi 1450 has a large 5-inch screen and offers multiple-point routing, spoken street names, lane assist with junction view to guide you through busy highway interchanges, pedestrian routing options, and ecoRoute to find the most fuel-efficient route.
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Junction view guides you to the correct lane for your upcoming turn or exit |
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Announces the names of exits and streets so you can keep your eyes on the road |
 5-inch widescreen display with vibrant color
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See Even More
It’s easy to see where you’re going on nüvi 1450’s 5-inch touchscreen display. View map detail, driving directions, photos and more in bright, brilliant color. With its big, bold display, you won’t miss a thing.
Know the Lane before It’s Too Late
No more guessing which lane you need to be in to make an upcoming turn. Lane assist with junction view guides you to the correct lane for an approaching turn or exit, making unfamiliar intersections and exits easy to navigate. It realistically displays road signs and junctions on your route along with arrows that indicate the proper lane for navigation.
Plan Ahead
nüvi 1450 includes advanced navigation features to take the worry out of traveling. With route planning you can save 10 routes, specify via points and preview simulated turns on the 1450’s large screen. In addition, nüvi 1450 automatically sorts multiple destinations to provide an efficient route for errands, deliveries or sales calls. A trip log provides an electronic bread crumb trail of up to 10,000 points, so you can see where you’ve been on the map.
Get Turn-by-Turn Directions
The intuitive interface greets you with two simple questions: “Where To?” and “View Map.” Touch the color screen to easily look up addresses and services and get voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names to your destination. It comes preloaded with detailed City Navigator NT street maps, nearly 6 million points of interest (POIs), 2-D or 3-D maps and the speed limit for most major roads. Its digital elevation maps show you shaded contours at higher zoom levels, giving you a big picture of the surrounding terrain. With the 1450’s enhanced user interface, you can slide your finger to conveniently scroll between screens. You can also upload custom points of interest (POIs). And with HotFix satellite prediction, nüvi calculates your position faster to get you there quicker.
Go Beyond Navigation
Navigation is just the beginning. nüvi 1450 saves you gas and money with ecoRoute — a green feature that calculates the most fuel-efficient route, tracks fuel usage and more. The 1450 includes many travel tools including JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. With photo navigation, you can download pictures from Garmin Connect Photos and navigate to them. Take advantage of the nüvi 1450’s traffic compatibility and navigate away from traffic. The nüvi 1450 is compatible with both the GTM 25, FM traffic receiver with lifetime subscription and the GDB 55, MSN Direct receiver (device receiver purchase required for either option). With its “Where Am I?” emergency locator, you always know your location. Simply tap the screen to get your exact latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest address and intersection, and the closest hospitals, police stations and fuel stations. The 1450 features Garmin Lock, an anti-theft feature, and is compatible with our free Garmin Garage where you can download custom voices and vehicles.
What’s in the Box
nüvi 1450, preloaded City Navigator NT for North America, vehicle power cable, vehicle suction cup mount, USB cable, dashboard disc, and quick start manual.
Features
- Large 5-inch touchscreen GPS with a brilliant and bold color display
- Advanced navigation features including voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names to your destination
- Multiple-point routing, lane assist with junction view, pedestrian routing options and ecoRoute to find the most fuel-efficient route
- Compatible with lifetime traffic alerts or MSN Direct (receiver purchase required for either option)
- Includes preloaded City Navigaor NT for North America, vehicle power cable, vehicle suction cup mount, USB cable, dashboard disc, and quick start manual
- Dimensions (W x H x L): 6 x 3 x 6 inches
- Weight: 2 pounds
That’s a very nice device.
I bought it last week and had no problems set it up. I liked very much the screen size. Also, I am using it as a language learning tool. It sounds weird, but it is helping me to improve French. It was worth buying it.
Lack of manual–severe drawback
This thing has 1000 things I don’t care about but doesn’t do the basic thing that I want it to do (chart where I’ve been so I know how to get back). Maybe it does, but I can’t figure out how to do it because there is no manual. Also, it randomly starts telling me where to go when I haven’t even chosen a destination.
Worked great!!
My new Garmin got me through the Chicago toll roads to my son’s wedding. No problems…
outwest
me and my gps went to yellowstone i was lost most of the tine garmin 1450 go to hell
unreliable
This unit replaced an older Garmin. It was easy for us to operate since many of the operations/features were similar to the old one. We received it the day before a long trip (around 1100 miles round trip). We were familiar with the route, but we wanted to give the unit a good test since we have several other trips later this year where we do not know the route.
The overall features were good to excellant. However, the unit locked up once and it took us a while to get it back on line. The unit also randomly shut itself down 9 times, and it took several minutes each time to get it back on line. Since we knew the route, no problems were caused. But there are times where shutting down on it’s own could cause significant confusion or problems.
We sent this one back. I think a GPS has to be reliable, otherwise why have it (the first Garmin never gave us a single problem). .
Online Registration and Map Updating Awful
The product itself is good. However, Garmin’s website for registering the device is very difficult. And the Garmin website for downloading map updates is also very poor. I still haven’t been able to get my free map update.
Wow what an upgrade
I spent a lot of time researching and going back and forth trying to find the best navigation in this price range – I’m happy to say I found it. This navigation is such as a huge upgrade over my Tom-Tom in just about every way. The screen layout is smart, and the features are fantastic. I don’t have a need for blue-tooth, and while traffic sounds nice, there are just too many bad reviews on every navigation system with traffic that it’s just not worth it. A nice large screen, fantastic features, and just a very smart design overall makes this the perfect navigation for me and I am extremely happy with my choice!
Garmin 1450
Love the large screen, I can read it without reading glasses, I can’t even see my cell phone. If I had it to do over I would by the 1490T for the traffic and Blue tooth.
GOOD VALUE
Though it is not top of the line as features go, with these units priced under $200, I would consider this unit a very good value.
We have used it for the Bay Area and Sacramento of Northern California and have not had any issues with regard to accuracy or reliability. The large screen is a major upgrade from the older models. The lane change feature with the arrows is also helpful. All other features are good. We have not encountered any problems and are happy with this purchase.
My research paid off…I’m thrilled!!
Over the past 10 months I had spent WAY too many hours reading reviews on GPS systems. Something would look like the best thing since sliced bread, then there would be reviews that the tech support was a nightmare, maps were outdated, etc. I liked the bigger size and the way this looked (the Interchange graphics especially)and was going out of state in February, so I had to make a decision. At the time, there were only a few reviews. On the day I prepared to order this Garmin 1450 there was negative review. I thought “Oh, great…”, but ordered it anyway, totally overwhelmed & frustrated with the whole endeavor. It has truly been a delight. My husband has had a low-tech Garmin for years & I never liked it. My son has a Tom-Tom, friends have Magellans, etc. We found restaurants, every location we needed, all effortlessly. I was afraid to do the review immediately, for fear it would die in the future, so I have waited 3 months. All is good! The only negative thing I might include is we did need to “reboot” twice on hot days when it was on the dash – I assume because it got hot. The reboot takes only a few seconds & it never happened when I left it sitting on its Friction Mount on the gearshift mound (out of the sun). I am truly quite pleased & grateful that I haven’t had problems. I hope whatever you select turns out to be such a successful experience!
I’m Impressed
I finally found a worthy replacement to my aging Garmin Nuvi 660 (2006).
A year ago I bought a Nuvi 755T (2008), but did not like it as well as my Nuvi 660, so I gave it to a friend and continued to use my Nuvi 660 instead.
With the introduction of the Nuvi 1450, I’m now totally satisfied to say goodbye to the Nuvi 660. The larger screen size and ease-of-use of the Nuvi 1450, in my opinion, is a significant improvement over my Nuvi 660 & 755T.
Big screen, good antenna.
I just upgraded from a Garmin 4.3″ screen. This 5.1″ screen is much nicer. The software is more refined. It auto zooms in or out based on your speed. The touch screen is very sensitive and fast. The only thing i dont like is the trip view with speedo is not like the dashboard view it used to be. I would definately recommend this unit to anyone.
For the money, this is sweet!
Wonderful GPS. I have owned $600 Lowrance units and $200 Tom Tom’s. But for the money, this 1450 Garmin is wonderful. The support online for updating the unit and adding some custom touches to the gps are really nice. BUT there are only two items that I don’t like about this gps. First, is the “lane viewer” or what ever they call it sucks. (The feature that shows a picture of the signs that you will be seeing) I travel 6 states for business and drive through major cities; Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Cinci, Indianapolis, etc… I had it only show me the picture of the signs that show what lane to be in twice after visiting all these cities. This was a bonus feature for me, not a selling point. That’s why I didn’t have it affect the way I rated it. Second, is when trying to find a hotel or gas station, it shows them surrounding you. That is great, but I wish there was an option to see what is on the way to your destination. I want to see what is in front of me, not behind. This just makes it harder and longer to find what you are looking for. So once again, not a huge problem for me. Now, if you care about bluetooth or voice navagation, I don’t so can’t give you a review on that. I mute mine and just glance at it from time to time. But what I can tell you is the ease of finding your destination, the continued updating online, the fact you can rate a hotel or destination, the size of the screen, easy to use, and how you can add a destination or correct a current destination, are things I love about the 1450 Garmin. Great price and very happy with it. I recommend this product!
Garmin nuvi 1450
I am the owner of several Garmin products and they never disapoint me. Buying through Amazon was a pleasure.
Garmin 1450
I bought the Garmin nuvi 1450 primarily because of the larger screen. The initial reviews were mixed, but there was only a couple when I was looking to buy. Because Garmin makes a quality product and often the negative product reviews are petty on their other products, I decided to buy one. I’ve been very happy with the purchase. It takes awhile for the Garmin to acquire the satellite. The biggest warning that I would tell a new buyer is to be patient the first time that you want to use it. You need to turn it on outside and wait forever for it to initialize and find the satellite the first time. They say it takes awhile. No, it takes more than a few minutes. I thought it was broken because I was impatient. :<)
Great GPS with horrid tech support….
This is my third Garmin GPS and I really like everything about it EXCEPT their tech support. None of the three worked right out of the box, I had to call tech support for all three of them. The first one took about two hours with tech support to get it working. The second one took four hours to get it registered, then I signed it up for the lifetime maps update program which is a fantastic deal. Unfortunately they sent a bad link to the updates and that took two full days for tech support to correct and send the proper link.
The third one is brand new, A Nuvi 1450. Now that it’s working it’s a fantastic unit but here’s what we went through to get it working:
It wouldn’t register on line, I waited 35 minutes on hold for a tech support person, then spent four hours getting it to register. I tried to use it and got an error message ‘can’t unlock maps’. Another 40 minutes on hold with tech support, another three hours fussing with it and I was told that I just needed to update the maps (Updating maps on a Garmin takes about 4 and a half hours). I spent the time, updated the maps, turned it on and got the same error message: ‘can’t unlock maps’. At this point I’d invested nearly eight hours on the phone with tech support, plus the four and a half hours to update the maps and STILL did not have a working GPS.
I waited till the next day to call Garmin Tech Support… only spent ten minutes on hold that time, and the tech support guy had it fixed in just a few minutes.
The result of all this: While I really like all three Garmin units and they all work very well I’ll be looking for another manufacturer if I need another GPS. Garmins are indeed easy to use, they work very well and do a great job but the greatest product in the world is no better than the tech support offered – and Garmin is failing miserably in that area.
a most helpful device
My husband and I travel extensively by car for our business. The Garmin, I believe, will save our marriage!
garmin nuvi 1450 5 inch
The first time we used it to go a couple of blocks it was fine. But last night we had to go 20 miles past our house and it went out 5 times in that distance. It reads no satilite reception and it dosen’t work till you go about 5 miles down the road. It also dosen’t seemed to know it’s right from it’s left. It tells you to turn right when the road is on the left. Then it corrects itself after a few miles, by then your past where you should have turned and it’s behind you in instructions so it said it was correcting but your past that point. What do you do when it won’t tell you what you need to know.??? Mikki
new garmin 1450
Love it!
great clear huge screen, very easy to use, slim and works perfectly, great price and had it in my car in just a few days after i ordereed it! would recomend to anyone that needs a garmin
Garmin nuvi 1450
This is the best unit I have used in the motor home and the big screen is easy to see from the drivers seat. Also it is easy to use without taking your attention from the road.