Garmin nüvi 260 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
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GARMIN NUVI 260 GPS 3.5″ SCREEN
Features
- High-Sensitivity GPS Receiver For Improved Performance & Reception
- 3.5-Inch Color Display, 320 X 240 Pixels
- Turn-By-Turn Directions With Spoken Street Names
- Sleek, Ultra-Slim Design
- Easy Touch-Screen Interface
- Dimensions (W x H x L): 3 x 1 x 4 inches
- Weight: 1 pounds
Garmin Nuvi 260
We love our garmin purchased from Amazon. Our voice is Lola, and gives great directions. We can now find any place we are looking for.
Easy to use and great directions, easy to follow.
good device
Have own the device for more than year and are still pretty happy with it. However, we only use it when we travel outside our area which doesn’t happen too often.
Fantastic GPS Unit
Simply put; I’ve had this unit for two years and its paid for itself several times over in the money I’ve saved on gas. Thats not mention the frustration it saves as well. The price has really come down on this unit too, I paid twice as much for it two years ago. I highly recomend the Garmim Nuvi 260!! If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, “It’s the best gadget I’ve ever bought”.
Garmin nuvi 260 rating
Did not have the exact same features as my previous model 260 from 2 years ago. How can the same model have different features? That was a surprise but I can live with it.
Not worth the money
My first GPS unit was a TomTom One and I really liked it. Not everything about it was perfect, but it was very easy to use. Well, it got stolen and my brother happen to be moving overseas so he gave me his Garmin Nuvi 260.
In my opinion, it’s not very intuitive. I recently used it on a trip cross country. I would program in our destination, let the device program our route which was pretty much I-40 west the entire way, and look to see our approximate arrival time. Instead of leaving the device plugged in because it already had a full battery charge, I would shut off the device. After a few hours of driving, I’d turn the device back on to find out how much further we had to travel and it would lose the programmed destination every time even though the battery still showed a full charge. So I’d either have to leave the device on or reprogram the destination each and every time. My TomTom One would keep the route stored until I cleared it out. 1 star
A lot of the times it was pretty quick to pick up satellites and pinpoint our location. It would also process routes pretty quickly as well. There were a few occasion where the device knew where we were but had no idea in which direction I was driving so the little car just sort of looked lost. 4 stars
Ease of use or intuitiveness. If you’ve never had a GPS unit before, I suppose this one would be very easy to learn and use. However, having owned a TomTom in the past, TomTom’s ease of use and intuitiveness are head and shoulders above this unit. I can’t speak for other Garmin’s because this is the only one I’ve owned. 3 stars
Battery life. I left this on at one point and got what I thought was a decent amount of time out of the battery. I can’t remember the exact length of time, but I think it was somewhere around a couple of hours. For a portable device, if you turn it off to save juice then turn it back on, your destination will be lost….or at least it was on mine.
Yes…I’ve done all the updates that are available.
Overall, I’m glad I didn’t spend my own money on this unit. There have been several times while using it to navigate through LA that I’ve wanted to throw it out the window. Even though I follow its directions, in some cases after each turn it will say “recalculating”. What?!?!? It gets us from point A to point B pretty accurately. One thing I do love is the fact that it tells you whether your address destination is on the right or the left side of the road….something my TomTom did not do.
I don’t think I’d recommend this to a friend as I’m sure there are better units out there in the same price range.
PLEASED WITH NUVI 260 AND RETAILTRONICS
Garmin Nuvi 260 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator operates very well and extremely dependable. The service from Retailtronics worked out very well. Initially a mistake in packaging and I was a bit premature in voicing a complaint. A replacement was sent and very pleased with the GPS and the service provided by Retailtronics.
Love it
This GPS is easy to use and small enough to store. I keep it with me in my car all the time but I dont always keep it out its easy enough to store in my car. It is very easy to use as well would recommend to everyone. Very user friendly!
Great – until it suddenly stops working, now dead
I had the Nuvi 260 model for about 1.5 years, maybe 2, really happy with it, and accurate maps even in some of the backwater parts of MN, but last month I was using it to get down to Chicago O’Hare airport, no problem, I collected my passenger, then tried to switch the unit on for the return trip – dead. Even though the charging light had been on from the cigarette lighter the whole journey down and was still on now, the unit was completely dead. It’s never worked again. This is completely unacceptable in a GPS/satnav device since you could be out in the middle of nowhere and then be completely lost. Fortunately I could make my way back once I’d got on I94 due to reasonable signs, but if I was back in MN in the backroads – I’d have been completely stuffed. With no moving parts, and no accidents happening to it this should NEVER happen with solid-state electronics. I bought a Magellan Roadmate 1440 when I got back, and will never buy anything from Garmin again. Avoid.
Love It
Great Price for this Garmin GPS…. I shopped around and researched before buying and this was the best deal. Fast Shipping made it even better! Thanks
Well worth the price, easy to use
This Garmin Nuvi is very easy to use, quite intuitive. When I took it out of the package, I was driving with it within 10 minutes. The street naming feature is extremely helpful, especially as many streets are not marked. It helps you know exactly where to turn. I had one issue in downtown Chicago where I lost the signal (due to the tall buildings, but as I drove on a few blocks, the signal returned. I would highly recommend this unit.
Would recommend
Cons: Window mount falls off, sometimes takes you a weird route
Pros: far outweigh the cons! Can’t beat the price! Easy to understand. Reliable albeit notation above about weird routing.
Nice – But difficult to program far away locations.
I’ve had the Garmin Nuvi 260 for about ten days now. I’ve used it locally in the Chicago area going to places I really didn’t need it but brought it along so I could take alternate routes than what it was telling me. It recalculated the changes fine. Programing the 260 is another thing. Very hard. Typing in a city – it will automatically enter a different city in another state. If you hit the back button your taken back to the first screen only to have to start all over again.
It be nice if you could type in a whole address on one line, but it asks for a address, then the street name. Some street names will pop up automatically, such as, First Place – but you may want First Street instead.
The 15 page instruction book tells you nothing about how to navigate around the menu’s, nor how to program anything. They expect cutomer to automatically know this stuff upon purchase…There is no fine detail explained. Just basic stuff. “Search” is a joke, it takes for ever for it to search for a name. I typed in Disney World and the hour glass icon rotated and drained for 20 minutes searching for Disney World -It couldn’t find Diney World! C’Mon, The most heavily visited place in the USA…….. Finally I shut it off. I got tired of waiting.
No matter how clean a surface is the suction cup mount falls down in less than 4 minutes. It took a long time to register the unit. There was some problems with passwords and usernames, plus I had to sign up for some other kind of BS Browser. Nothing is easy..
Well, I lucked out in that my Motorola cellphone charger will charge the GPS and the Canon camera’s USB cable was able to download the updates for the GPS. I did end up buying the Garmin AC charger a few days later. Both cord are 5 volts so there is no harm using the cellphone charger. I wish the plug in for the charger was on the side of the unit or in the front. Its on the back. It would make routing the cord around the car a bit easier.
The 3.5″ screen is pretty easy to see while driving. I prefer the square screen over the 4.3″ rectangle screen on the 260w. You can zoom in and out on the driving screen so it will show more or less street names as the come up while driving. Why does Garmin position the Speaker so the sound comes out the back of the unit?? It be much better if the sound came out the front. It’s hard to hear if the radio is up and the windows are down. I had no trouble receiving signals with the GPS fastened under the big overhang on my dash. It worked fine on the center console too. There is a depression in front of my Heater / AC control panel, and I can prop the GPS up in front of it and the angle for viewing it is just fine.. The angle is such that it won’t tip on a hard take off either…..Sound gets muffled when I set the GPS in front of the Heater /AC control.
If no destinations have been programmed in and your driving along, the screen shows what ever route your taking.
great navigator
This is truly idiot proof. The screen is a nice size and it offers lots of fetures.
Excellent value
I purchased this GPS for my father who is in mid-sixties, and very computer/electronic illiterate. he found this very easy to use with little instruction from me, this is the 4th garmin gps unit i have purchased and garmin in general is and excellent product…..
A disappointment
I bought this navigation system on the recommendation of several people, however, proved to be an absolute disappointment. Why? For many reasons.
14 months after buying this equipment stopped working completely.
The connection cable is broke prematurely and the base never worked! A disaster…
cheap and reliable
This was a gift to a college grad living in a big city. The touch screen options are easy to use and she loves it. I’m a big fan of GPS units and Garmin. I recommend this product to anyone.
5 Star gem
Set up is a breeze, ready to lead you to your destinations with ease and clarity. A great bargain !!!
Good directions at a good price
Have not used it much so far, but the results have been fine with one exception: the directions to a filling station sent me to one which had been closed for decades diagonal to the one I sought. At least it got me into the correct neighborhood.
You get a lot for your money with voice instructions of street names. To me that is and important feature.
Very pleased with product
Very good product. This is a newer version of one we previously owned. This updated version provides more accurate instructions specifically naming streets and exits. A little less user friendly than previous version but still very easy to use.
nice product at a great price
So far this product has been great. It is small and reliable and was listed at a great price. I hope it lasts longer than my other clunky one.