Garmin GPS V user reviews

Summary I am the most disoriented guy in the world....and when I am driving on an unfamiliar road - well, sometimes even He cannot save me. But only until I got my hands on this little wonder. Garmin has manufactured this product especially for guys like me. It is extremely accurate and the battery power is great too. It comes with City Select Maps on a CD (you can activate only one region though - for activating other regions, you have to pay) and a car adapter + car-mount. The control buttons are fairly user-friendly and the instrument locks on to the satellites in a jiffy. It warns you (by way of audible beeps) of an upcoming turn and if you miss it, it recalculates and re-directs you to your destination. You can actually input an address and it will take you there....or if you choose, a waypoint or a place of interest. Recently when I lost my way in downtown Toronto and wanted to get to my destination, I was amazed beyond words when it once warned me to "keep left" on a particular road which led to a highway only to find out that the left lane took me to DVP Northbound....exactly where my destination was. It keeps a log of all the roads you have traveled which might be helpful for some because you can download these tracks onto your computer, configure the downloaded routes according to your needs (for example, giving user-friendly names to waypoints & destinations) and then upload it back to GPS V. The ease of marking a waypoint while driving is not bad too. A zoom in/out function gives you the luxury of having a closer look of your surroundings and if you fancy having a peek at its little beauties, hook it up to a laptop while somebody else is driving and it will give you a real-time reading of your direction bearing, speed and a detailed surrounding street map. You can actually see a red dart (your car) sliding away hastily on a street and you can have a very good idea of all the upcoming roads and turns. This unit comes with innumerable options to configure - and Garmin has done it so well that it could get away with murder. In a search for GPS on the net, I was lucky to find www.gpscentral.ca which boasts of great prices and great service.....which is absolutely true. Once again - hats off to Garmin for making this unit although they could have easily thrown in a full set of maps with the price tag it comes with. And of course, thanks to gpscentral for the prompt and efficient service - I will never lose my way again.