| View Larger Image | Garmin nüvi 855 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Speech Recognition | Electronicsby Garmin
| List Price: | $499.99 | | Price: | $199.99 | | You Save: | $300.00 (60%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Publisher: | Garmin | | Model: | 010-00577-31 | | Sales Rank: | 54th |
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FEATURES | - Sleek, ultra-slim design fits in a pocket; High-sensitivity GPS receiver for fast satellite lock
- Pre-loaded with City Navigtor NT maps for North America, including more than 6-million name-searchable points of interest
- Speech recognition--speak menu options and keep your eyes on the road
- Multi-destination routing--enter several destinations and get the best route to all of them; "Where am I?" and "Where's my car?" features
- Full feature set--text to speech for spoken directions with real street names; MP3 player, and Photo viewer
- nv:Condition^New|Type^Automotive|Waypoints^500|Route Capacity^10|Display^TFT|Display^Backlight|Screen Size^4.3"|Touch Screen^Yes|Voice^Yes|Expansion Slots^microSD Card|Battery Type^Removable, Rechargeable Lithium-ion|Battery Life^4 hours|Special Features^FM Transmitter|Special Features^Spoken Street Names|Special Features^Lane Guidance|Maps Included^United States
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ACCESSORIES |
| Garmin MapSource MetroGuide of Denmark and Sweden for Garmin GPS Units (CD ROM)
by Garmin
The Garmin MetroGuide CD-ROM for Denmark and Sweden contains trip and waypoint management functions that allow for effective trip planning. MetroGuide Denmark and Sweden contains extremely detailed city maps with street-level information with address-lookup capability when downloaded to a compatible Garmin GPS device (see below for list of devices). This software allows you to view color maps on a desktop PC, with zoom and pan functions for easy map browsing. You can create waypoints,...
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| InstallerNet Navigation System InstallCard
by InstallerNet
With this InstallCard a professional installer will install a Navigation System into your vehicle. Installation includes mounting a Plug-and-Play Navigation Unit and permanently connecting it to the vehicle’s ignition power and installing an external GPS Antenna OR adding a Navigation Module to an existing Mobile Video Player. Visit www.InstallCard.com for more information
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| Garmin City Navigator for Detailed Maps of Italy and Greece (microSD/SD Card)
by Garmin
GARMIN 010-10691-05 Micro SD City Navigator NT with Preloaded Italy and Greece Maps. MicroSD memory card, City Navigator NT, Italy. Contains full detailed coverage of Italy and Athens, Greece including motorways, national and regional thoroughfares and local roads. Contains navigational features such as turn restrictions and speed categories. Points of interest such as: food and drink, lodging, border crossings, petrol stations, hospitals and more. Will automatically create point to point...
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| Garmin City Navigator Nordics for Detailed Maps of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden (microSD/SD Card)
by Garmin
microSD/SD memory card, City Navigator, Nordics NT. Detailed map coverage for Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Denmark, Norway and Sweden haves full coverage of major cities. Finland has detailed coverage of these cities: Espoo, Helsinki, Järvenpää, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kauniainen, Kerava, Kirkkonummi, Kotka, Kouvola, Kuopio, Lahti, Lappeenranta, Oulu, Pori, Pornainen, Porvoo, Sibbo, Tampere, Turku, Tuusula, Vasaa and Vantaa.
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| Garmin City Navigator France for Detailed Maps of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France (microSD/SD Card)
by Garmin
Note:Please read description for more info.
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 91 reviews)
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Great value - needs more volume by AZS (United States)  4 Stars
November 29, 2009
Pros:
1. Voice input - works far better than expected - but car interior must be almost silent (no radio on during vebal instuctions)
2. Update - udated software and maps to 2010 version - went smoothly with no glitches
3. Vivid display - reduced visibility in direct sun, but still usable
4. Cost - great features for sub two hundred dollars
5. So far, very accurate directions
6. Fixes on satellites quickly and calculates directions pretty fast.
Cons:
1. ONLY the speaker volume too quiet even on highest setting (and I even used TTSVoiceEditor to crank it up)
As a side note - I do not know why people complain about the lack of "Lane Assist" in non-urban areas. If there are only 2 or 3 lanes who needs it? Get close to a large city where there are 6 or more lanes then feature is then handy.
The lack of bluetooth must have less drain on the processor since maps are quite smooth on the 855 compared to the 885T.
4 stars - 1 removed for lack of volume
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1st time user by J. Livinghouse (Long Beach, IN, USA) 4 Stars
November 27, 2009
"Carmen" or so we named her - let us down in mid Atlanta - she froze up and wouldn't unfreeze until we were out of the Atlanta area. I was worried that I had made a mistake with my purchase but she only froze up on one more occassion. She's a little slow on the directions if you know where you're going and really likes toll roads. On one other occassion she recommended we go an alternate way - which we did not choose because we knew that the Turnpike to 75 was more direct & better than following 50 to 75. All in all she's OK especially in unknown territory.
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My GPS has occassionally froze up but I turned it off and back on without any problems by B-Frank (Tampa, FL USA)  5 Stars
November 25, 2009
Excellent product and great price! As with anything, a few kinks have to be worked out such as the freezing up of the GPS. However that has only been a minor factor for me. I used it on a recent trip, in an extremely rural area, and I was still able to receive satellite reception. The driving directions are awesome and I really love the lane assist feature. The only thing that wished could be re-worked is the voice and the volume because it is sometimes difficult to understand because of the placement of the speaker. Overall if I had to purchase all over again, I would.
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Great GPS except for some bugs by fish and dog man (West Milford, NJ USA) 4 Stars
November 24, 2009
The functions of the 855 are great.
I like being able to replace the battery when the original wears out eventually since it's much cheaper to replace than sending a unit to Garmin for battery replacement.
The custom avoidance feature is a nice function not found in many other Garmin GPSs. You can save avoidance instances to certain roads or areas you don't want to travel through.
Ease of use is great similar to my 760 I had given to someone.
The lane assist is nice.
The junction view where it shows exit signs has very few exits in the unit, maybe they will add more in the future.
Only main con I would say is an occaisional hang of the GPS and I have to hold the power button for a while and then it does a full reboot.
Also the voice recognition does not respond sometimes, but it's still a great feature to have.
Hopefully these will be ironed out in a future firmware upgrade.
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What happened to Garmin Quality by J. Oreilly (Century City, CA)  1 Stars
November 24, 2009
This is my first review, ever. I couldn't let this go by without relating my experience with this device as a warning to others.
After owning a StreetPilot 550 for several years I decided to upgrade to the 855 and give the StreetPilot to a coworker that I had been praising the benefits of owning a Garmin to. After about 3 months use I thought perhaps there were some pages in the owners manual (that you have to download online) that i had completely skipped over which explained that there might be some kind of learning curve for those of us non-rocket scientists and theoretical physicists.
The freezing of the screen became more and more frequent and for sequentially longer periods. Living in Los Angeles with a high stress job that actually does involve life and death at times, this was not a situation that was going to be tolerated for long.
The MSN Direct features were somewhat helpful, as long as you didn't need accurate traffic information. Of course that was the primary feature I wanted out of it. About four to six weeks ago MSN Direct sends out an email notifying those of us with "lifetime" subscriptions that they were going to be closing shop in 2012 so don't count on this feature to be around for more than a year.
I kept telling myself to return it but truly did not have the time to do that.
I'm not a road rage driver in the least but this machine found its way out my car window and somewhere along the 405 one night when it told me I should be able to be driving at 65mph as I drove less thsn 4 miles in two hours due to an accident.
To top things off the Garmin 755T that lived in the better half's car had a screen freeze for the first time 2 days ago and then yesterday it died a death that deserved last rights because it wouldn't even power on anymore.
What happened Garmin?! I'm headed to TomTom to check out the competition.
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