Nuvi 260w review






Garmin nüvi 260W 4.3 Inch Widescreen vehicle Portable GPS Navigator
 


The nuvi 260W gps is still in top selling not only in the Garmin navigators, but in the entire Portable Vehicle GPS, despite there was several new products with more features from many factories including Garmin itself.

This gps navigator is ranking #7 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics) and #1 in Portable Vehicle GPS, according to the giant online large scale retailer amazon.com until writing this review, passing beyond many featured gps receivers.

The nuvi 260w popularity is due to two things: simplicity and efficacy. That's because this gps navigator system is offering for its user all what he really needs to find his way in a very beautiful and intuitive 4.3-inch touchscreen display divided to Simple controls and sub-screens make it easy to search for destinations.

The portable Garmin 260w comes with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps of North America with a large database of 6 million points of interest or what we call POI. This database can be expanded by the user by adding his custom POIs such as restaurants, fuel stations, automated teller machines (ATMs), schools, etc...


For using nuvi 260w gps out of North America the maps are updated for life by nüMaps Lifetime which lets you download the newest map data up to 4 times per year without monthly fees or maintenance costs. The free maps update for Garmin is covering the North of America, Europe, Australia & New Zealand, and the middle east.

The 4.3-inch screen on nuvi 260w is wide enough to give a better view of all the area where you are driving displaying detailed NAVTEQ maps in 2D or 3D perspective.

One of the important features of our nuvi gps navigator is without doubt the text to speech ability. Garmin introduces this technology in the 260w to give the driver more elegance and safety, by announcing the streets by their actual names, which allows the user to keep his eyes on the road.

The Garmin nuvi 260w is built with a High-sensitivity 12-channel portable Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver which allows the GPS to provide location, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and synchronization. This makes the navigation more accurate.

Garmin nuvi 260W 4.3-Inch Widescreen portable GPS Navigator has More than 5 hours of autonomy thanks to the built in rechargeable lithium-ion battery which makes it adequate for navigation on foot or on bike. It come also with 96MB flash memory and Secure Digital media card slot to insert an  Garmin Travel Guides.

The nuvi 260w is no more commercialized by Garmin Ltd, but is still updated by using the free Garmin webupdater software. To buy a nuvi 260w navigator, you have the choice to many online stores. you can get it for less than $130.

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