Garmin nüvi 270 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator by Garmin
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Digital camera reviews of Garmin nüvi 270 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
Digital camera Review: Easy to use: don't pay list price!
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this to be very easy to use and quite intuitive. I bought the optional bean-bag mount, which works better than the suction cup mount. The Nuvi is quite expensive at list price, but good value at (Amazon) discount price. The embedded list of places of interest is a bit limited, but adequate. Entering addresses is very easy.Digital camera Review: Europe
Summary: 5 Stars
I live In England a borrowed this GPS from my friend who is American and swears by it, I had a job interview and didn't know where to go so I happily accepted the offer to use her GPS.
what a god send it was fantastic easy to use, clear voice, I made a short cut coming home and it re mapped the route for me.
So from someone who is English and from Europe I would say it works excellent here, no problems at all.
Digital camera Review: Europe and US Maps / Great price
Summary: 5 Stars
So far I've used it in the US and France. The only issue I've had was that within Paris locking in to a satellite was sketchy, depending on what area of the city you are in. I had heard this from other reviews, so I pre-mapped certain areas by address before I arrived. That way, if I couldn't lock in real-time, I could at refer to the area map I had saved. Otherwise, have had excellent luck with mapping and re-routing in both US and Europe.
Good battery life, but would have been nice if Garmin had put an A/C charger in the kit. I am using a Griffin USB A/C charger which works fine. Despite the small drawbacks, for the price, it's a bargain.
Digital camera Review: European Maps, a definite plus!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this product because of the included Europe maps. I haven't had the pleasure to use this in Europe yet. I used it at Maui, Hawaii and it was awesome. It was very helpful and easy to use.Digital camera Review: European trip experience
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought the Garmin nuvi 270 only a couple of days before leaving for a month-long driving trip in Europe. The decision to purchase this particular unit was influenced mostly by the included US and European maps, and to some extent the cost. It was intended to be a backup GPS for the NAVI systems in the rental cars. The day before we left, I used the upgrade option to download and install the latest European maps, since we would be doing quite a bit of driving in remote areas, and wanted the most up-to-date maps we could get. It turned out to be a critical device, since the first rental car came with a nuvi 270 handed to me in a case that was quite a bit older than my own, and the second rental had a German-only NAVI system.
The trip included Switzerland, northern Italy, a bit of France, then northern Germany and along the Baltic coast to the Gdansk area of Poland. We spent time in some cites - Zurich, Venice, Monaco - where the terrain or tall buildings might have affected reception, but never had a problem acquiring and keeping satellites. The unit was also very good about keeping and or immediately re-acquiring satellites through the numerous tunnels on the Italian auto-stradas. There were a few isolated incidents in the Dolomites where traveling in a deep valley between cliffs resulted in dropped signals, but the unit always re-acquired after a change in highway direction.
I can't say enough about the accuracy and level of detail in the maps. We explored some very remote areas and always had more than enough detail to find our way into and out of anything. We even navigated down un-named dirt tracks in a forest in Poland that were on the map.
We had one case in a small Italian hillside town near the Cinque Terre that the unit sent us up a one-lane street between buildings with a number of 90 degree turns that ended in a set of stairs before the street continued. We could only laugh as we ended up backing out of that one.
We did use the pedestrian mode in Zurich, and again in Venice. It worked very well in both cities. However, please remember to set it back to vehicle mode before driving. I forgot once in Zurich and ended up driving the wrong way down a street, with a streetcar coming at me.
I am thoroughly impressed with the device - a superb value.