Garmin Nuvi 57lm Gps Navigator System With Spoken Turn-By-Turn Directions,5 Inch Display, Lifetime M
Garmin Nuvi 57LM GPS Navigator System with Spoken Turn-By-Turn Directions,5 inch display, Lifetime Map Updates, Direct Access, and Speed Limit Displays
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- Free lifetime Map updates
Brand : Garmin
Category : Electronics,GPS, Finders & Accessories,Sports & Handheld GPS,Handheld GPS Units
Rating : 4.4
Price : US $209.99
Review Count : 3490
ChildASIN : B00RVGZS30,B00RVGZRR2,B00RVGZJKM,B00RVGZIYY
Garmin Nuvi 57LM GPS Navigator System with Spoken Turn-By-Turn Directions,5 inch display, Lifetime Map Updates, Direct Access, and Speed Limit Displays
- I got this to replace my nearly 10 year old Garmin StretPilot 2720 (which amazingly is still being sold used by some sellers). The Garmin StreetPilot 2720 was a top of the line unit back in 2006 and I was pleased to find that the \"cutting edge\" tech of 2006 is now in the \"low end\" Nuvi series of modern models. Amazing that a sub $200 GPS does way more than a $1000+ 9 year old GPS could do.For those wondering, YES there are still reasons to own a standalone, dedicated GPS in 2015. Those reasons include (1) Smartphone battery drainage. The GPS on a smartphone tends to drain it, then you have to have a cable running to your lap or a windshield mount and I find it a big pain in the you know what. (2) You don\'t need cellular coverage, or more importantly DATA coverage. This isn\'t a problem if you never leave New York City or San Francisco, but for those of us who live out in the country or do field service of some sort and travel all over (big cities and small towns), there are still places where my phone can\'t get 3G or can\'t find any data connection. You do not need data to use your \"real\" GPS. This is the biggest reason I have a real GPS in 2015. Nothing worse than not being able to use Google Maps because you have no data signal. (3) It more easily saves all of my favorites which is nice when I have over 100 customers I store in the unit.I went ahead with the 6\" screen but a 5\" model (57LMT) would be the same but smaller. I also went with the lifetime maps and traffic. The traffic feature runs off of the antenna which is the power cord itself (no external antenna used). It seems to work well but not as fast as crowd sourced traffic such as Waze.The directions are very accurate and if you hook it up to a PC and download Garmin Express you can get alternate voices and vehicles. If you don\'t mind dragging and dropping files directly into the file system of the unit there are sites with HUNDREDS of custom vehicles which is cool, but I won\'t go into that process here.I love the school zone warnings and the light shade of red the speed display shows if you are exceeding the posted speed limit. Like any other data there are rare times that the speed limit in the GPS doesn\'t match the actual speed limit if it has been adjusted in the past few years.The new turn by turn directions work well especially with the supported voices that do the \"real speech\" thing, it may say \"turn left at traffic light\" or \"turn left before the CVS\" which is nice. Of course the built in voices do Text To Speech and will say things like \"In half a mile, turn left on Miller street\". The volume adjusts to very loud, which is nice if you\'ve got the radio cranked and the window down. The screen CAN be a tad bit hard to read compared to my old 3.7\" Garmin StreetPilot 2720, but just a small turn to the left or right will fix it.I went ahead and sprung for the beanbag dash. I never liked windshield mounts and my old Garmin 2720 only had a beanbag which was nice to move car to car. The extra $15 or so dollars was worth it.The unit has tons of points of interest such as restaurants and gas stations. The \"Where To\" screen is also customization in terms of icon placement and the items on there! For example I added a shortcut to the \"Fast Food\" section in addition to the standard restaurant icon as I frequent those the most (hey, don\'t judge me).I was able to export my old 2720 favorites to a program call MapSource from Garmin, but that program couldn\'t see the new GPS, so I exported the MapSource database and installed a program called BaseCamp by Garmin. I was able to open the database file in BaseCamp and drag my favorites into the new GPS. THEN I installed Garmin Express which is the current software and from there you can backup your favorites to a single file.This thing acquires Satellites in a fraction of the time it took my old GPS. The only two things I found that I wish I could change would be (1) having a north indicator (red arrow or letter N with a pointer) on the screen at all times. My old GPS had this. There is a field in the bottom right that you can use it for, but that leads me to (2) only being able to display one extra data type. In the bottom right you can display arrival time, time left to destination, driving direction etc, but not more than one. I would gladly sacrifice a bit more screen space (of which there is plenty) to be able to display two fields. But overall its not a big issue.I would highly recommend this to anyone who still wants a \"real\" GPS.
- I had originally reviewed this as a horrible device. It was in my wife\'s car, I rarely used it, and when I did, it seemed to always make the wrong choice when needing to avoid traffic. Traffic patterns in our area change greatly and this was not meeting the need. Since then I have had opportunities to use it more and found ways around the problems I had originally had with it. First I found that it appears out of the box it is not set to automatically recalculate a better route if a route becomes better due to traffic. After fixing this, it appeared to make the right choice more often. It may be that it calculated the route prior to having full traffic information for the destination. I don\'t really know. Second I found that it will not search for a better route if it does not think the better route is going to be better by more than 3 minutes. And Third, I found that while it will give you a route, there is a feature I was not using that allows you to search for better routes and it will give you up to three comparable routes for you to select from.The old Garmin just worked without having to mess around with it like this. You set up your preferences and it just worked as you would like without interacting with it. But this one is not as horrible as I had originally described.== Original Review ======================This thing is horrible at traffic avoidance. We have an older Garmin with a much smaller screen that receives traffic. It can be trusted to analyze traffic and always provide the shortest route. We had two of these. When one burnt out, we \"upgraded\" to this model.While this looks nicer and has some nice newer features, when it comes to avoiding traffic, it almost always makes the wrong decision. It will give you the ideal route if there was no traffic, tell you that there is traffic, but not route you to a better route. I still have not figured out the UI. We have had it for a while.Today I pulled over and played with it since traffic was bad. At one point I was able to get it to change to a more ideal route due to some button popping up that allowed me to change routes even though I was on the best route. It gave me a better route. Not knowing exactly how I fumbled through the UI and wanting to be able to achieve a better route when not in a parking lot, I stopped my route and tried again. I did not get back to that screen, but I did find that I could have it calculate multiple routes. Unfortunately, neither route it came up with again was as good as the previous route I had somehow made it switch to previously. In a nutshell, I had to either disregard the directions this was giving or take the longer slower route.By comparison, the older model could be relied on perfectly.It appears Garmin either does not test their new algorithms against their old, have lost the license to use the older superior algorithm, or providing consumers with the most efficient route is no longer their driving motivation. No pun intended.
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