Garmin nüvi 800 Series Rechargeable Battery Review

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(More customer reviews)Garmin nuvi 880 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS NavigatorThe 880 is great, when used indoors planning a trip, or on the road "executing" the trip. You can hook it up to 110 VAC, or 12 VDC. But, in between or out of the car at destination, Watch Out! The 880 battery is stated as being good for only five (5) hours. So, I pack a spare battery for the 880 GPS (and a different one for my cell phone) whenever I go out of the immediate vicinity of my rural home. Both the GPS and the cell phone batteries are a pain to charge. You have to install them in their units, and then charge the units. The Nuvi battery is a little awkward to get out (don't force it, it comes out easy if you do it right) but easy to reinstall.
Of course, if I know I'm going to be away from the car, in the woods, I take along another Magellan which works great in the woods, but has too small a screen for driving.

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Arkon GPS043 Anti Glare Clip-On Sun Screen for 4.3-Inch GPS Devices (Black) Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this for an Nuvi 880 and/or 785t. First problem, you have to bend the wires that connect the shade to the unit, otherwise the top part of the shade cuts off part of the top of the screen. Also, there is hardly any material on the top and especially the sides (very shallow screen) so in the morning or late afternoon, the shade does little to prevent glare regardless of the sun angle. Given how shallow the screen actually is, if sun glare ever was an issue (not all that often) I find I had to tilt the screen to avoid the glare whether or not I was using the shade. I have since discontinued using the shade as ineffective and as few times as glare is a problem, I just tilt the screen slightly.

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Garmin nüvi 885/885T 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Speech Recognition Review

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(More customer reviews)Excellent features and very good GPS. It gets a satellite lock inside my house!!! The voice recognition is the gem in this thing. It really works and once you start using it, it is very useful and functional. You don't have to push buttons.
Positives: Voice recognitions, lots of POIs, on-line sites like POI-Factory to add custom POIs (easy to do), and a very good set of features. I have tried (it works) but not extensively used the bluetooth hands free and mp3 player yet (8GB microSD card ordered) but I think it will be useful. MSN Direct is the way to go and works very well. I am getting helpful traffic updates in Louisville.
Negatives: I have to say the volume on the unit should be higher. I realize the FM radio option is there, but sometimes you are listening to the radio or a CD and it is hard to hear the Garmin. On a trip do they expect you to only listen to the Garmin? I figure if I use the mp3 option on an FM channel that maybe that is a way around the CD because I assume it will give voice prompts through the music audio (have not tried). Also the few hands-free calls I have taken have given very poor sound on the Garmin speakers making it not useful (maybe a software update? Not sure they are using the A2DP or a good profile.). They must fixe these two issues. They should already have this perfected. One other small potential issue. The band for the voice recognition button barely fits my steering wheel (last notch), on some others that are larger it could be an issue (but I think this may be minor)?
I will post more as I use it. I should give it 4 starts because of the sound issues. I will come back and re-review as I use it. It is worth buying. My brother and siter have Tom-Tom and another Garmin (780) and this is definitely better. The voice command and satellite lock really distinguishes it. When you are driving you don't want to have to reach and push buttons on it. Garmin, please improve the audio ASAP.

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