FEATURED Garmin nüvi 50LM 5-inch Portable GPS Navigator (US and Canada))
- Lane assist with junction view
- Speed limit indicator
- Trip computer records mileage, max speed, total time and more.
- nuvi 50 delivers you safely wherever life takes you.
- Designed to make navigation easy, simply enter an address and premium features including lane assist with junction view, help you make all the right turns.
With a big 5” (12.7 cm) touchscreen, more than 5 million points of interest (POIs) and spoken turn-by-turn directions, nüvi 50LM makes driving fun again. Plus, with FREE lifetime map updates, you always can keep your roads and POIs up to date.
Get Turn-by-Turn Directions nüvi 50LM’s intuitive interface greets you with 2 simple choices: “Where To?” and “View Map.” Touch the screen to easily look up addresses and services and to be guided to your destination with voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names. It comes preloaded with maps of the U.S. and Canada. nüvi 50LM’s speed limit indicator shows you how fast you can go on most major roads. With its “Where Am I?” emergency locator, you always know your location. It also comes preloaded with millions of POIs and offers the ability to add your own. Enjoy FREE Lifetime Map Updates With FREE lifetime map¹ updates, you always have the most up-to-date maps, POIs and navigation in
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Battery Problems,
The menus are very simple and easy to understand. Navigation is accurate. 5″ display is plenty big enough. Reception is great. Only thing I would change is the voice option. There are 2 voices. The standard voice is a bit muddled and speaks street names. The other voice is much clearer but DOESN’T speak street names. I think you can download more voices online but I haven’t tried that yet. Overall the GPS is well worth the 179 we paid.
UPDATE 1/5/2012: GPS is dead. Not powering up. Wasn’t dropped or abused. Since new, the GPS has periodically lost the ability to power up while off the power cord, even though it was fully charged before it was turned off. Prior to it not working, the gps was plugged into the car and charging the whole time. While in the car, it’s easy to know if power is lost to the unit because a warning message appears asking if I wish to power it off or keep it on. So we know the power cord works well. I called Garmin and they had me plug the unit into a computer and it powered on and showed a depleted battery. They claimed it was the power cord that was the problem and are sending another one for free. Meanwhile they asked me to keep it plugged into the computer for a full charge. I did that and used it on a 24 hr. trip with no problems so far. Just waiting for the unit to die again unexpectedly like it has done before so I can send it back under warranty. I think this unit has a battery problem that is intermittent or a short somewhere that kills the battery while it’s off.
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|Best low end GPS I’ve ever used.,
I’ve been using GPS units for over a decade. My first unit was a Magellan hiking oriented unit. I ditched it after two weeks and got a Garmin hiking unit that lasted me 6 years. The UI was much better, and Garmin really seems to pay attention to that. When the Nuvi wide screen units came out, that was the price performance price to get me into a unit oriented for driving. I’ve had both the 200w and the 255w. The 200w was good. The 255w had subtle UI improvements such as the speed limit display.
The new Garmin 50 beats them hands down. It’s larger, and for less money than the others when they were new. The 5″ display makes a huge difference. In addition to the larger display, almost everything about the maps details, fonts for text info, icons and symbols all seem larger, beyond just scaling up for screen size. Everything is much easier to read at a quick glance. The bootup is much faster. The first couple of times, there’s a rather annoying license click-through, but it goes away after that. It hasn’t been back. There’s a “safety mode” which tries to tell you what a bad idea changing settings while driving is. It’s easy to override, and easy to turn off.
Lane assist! It works… Sometimes it’s timing is a little off… If it triggers too early you can end up in a “disappearing lane”. Too late, and it can be tough to get into the correct lane in time, so this feature isn’t an easy one to get right. It’s still a big help.
When approaching a critical intersection, the screen splits, and a “street view” of the intersection appears. A cartoon depiction. I was worried that this would be disconcerting. But it’s not. It works. It’s helpful. BTW, this size screen in a motorcycle-toughened unit would be FABULOUS. Just my view.
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|Great GPS!,
This GPS is 100 times better than my old GPS, the Garmin 750! Everything is a lot quicker now from finding satellites to scrolling on the screen. Plus, there’s a whole bunch of great new features. Some examples are how it now tells you which lane to be in so you don’t have to guess, the screen refreshes faster so it’s easier to actually tell when to turn, the junction view is pretty handy, and apparently it shows you speed traps and red light cameras! Definitely a great buy.
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