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(More customer reviews)I had a Magellan navigator which I got as a gift and at that time costed 400 bucks had only US maps and ran Windows PocketPC, always got lost and took forever to track down the satellites, given that it was 3yrs old, but this model is also atleast 2yrs old. What a huge difference in user experience. This has a great user interface, lots of features (multiple waypoint support, bluetooth, picture viewer, mp3 player, fm traffic reciever) along with the most important feature for me as I was traveling to Europe, North America as well as European Maps pre-loaded. I would not have been able to survive the roads in Italy, especially Naples if not for this nifty little thing. In Europe along with traffic it also gives you location of the speed and traffic cameras (not all the cameras are indicated though), which is a great plus. I was personally following the posted speed limits (not that one could go faster than the limits in the dinky little cars you get for rentals over there). The freeway limits are much higher than in US, upto 80mph/130kmph (this thing switches easily to kmph scale), so really don't have to go above them.
This was a refurbished unit, and had some concerns before buying it. The navigator arrived in an OEM packaging and though it did not look new (unlike some other refurbished items I have purchased) but it worked flawlessly right out of the box. I guess there are some advantages of buying a refurb, the kinks have probably been removed.
Following are the issues why I dinged 1 star:
1. It appeared to be a used unit and not a usual refurbished one, which are typically less than 30 day return.
2. There was only a car charger, no AC wall charger. The car charger has the FM receiver so you have to deal with a lot of wires.
3. Complicated charger plug design, it does not fit directly into the unit but you have to attach the mount to the back of the GPS and plug the plug to that.
4. No case, I would have expected at least a rudimentary carrying case for a device that cost so much refurbished
5. No lifetime maps which are available with newer but much less expensive units from Garmin
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