Large 5" diagonal color display.
Text-to-speech.
Ultra-slim design fits easily in pocket.
US, Canada & Mexico mapping preloaded.
Lifetime Map Updates included.
480 x 272 pixel display resolution
5.0 inch diagonal WQVGA color TFT touchscreen with white backlight
Includes free lifetime map updates
Preloaded with City Navigator NT North America (U.S., Canada and Mexico)
nuRoute technology includes traffic Trends and my Trends (no subscriptions required)
This review is from: Garmin nvi 2450LM 5-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Map UpdatesGreat upgrade from my nuvi 760. Love the No Pop Up Ad Traffic. (see below)I like the larger screen and more information and customizable interface. I like the eco route as well (you put in your vehicle profile on mileage and the cost of gas in your area and it calculates costs for each trip. Very interesting to see how much a trip costs you). I also like how it lets you set a speed limit on roads that it doesn't have. That's a great feature as some streets aren't marked too well. Another interesting feature is the auto zoom. As your speed increases the unit zooms out to show you more of what's in the area and what's coming, as you slow down it zooms in closer to the intersection, etc. They've also updated the animations as you drive and turn corners, etc.I called Garmin for tech support on my 760 after the recent Map Update rendered it useless - with 4 kids in sports, one of these is almost essential with games in various locations in and around town. My wife was going out of town for a soccer tournament and we needed a new unit for her trip while the other one went in for service. Now we'll have one for each car, when the 760 comes back.Anyway back to why you are all reading this. The rep was extremely helpful in taking care of me and my 760 as well as helpful in unit and feature comparisons. I read a lot about how people HATE the pop up adds on the Lifetime Maps and Traffic units. The garmin rep mentioned that it is because the adds help pay down the entire unit. If you'd like AD FREE Traffic, get the Garmin GTM 35 Lifetime Traffic Receiver 3700 Series separately (I got it for $108 on Amazon). By paying (close to) full price, you won't need the added (punn intended) assistance from the advertisers. It would be and extra $50 for the Lifetime traffic. I "bought out" the ads for $58 and couldn't be happier. Money well spent!I might now sell the 760 when it gets back and get another 2450. I really like it that much better....
This review is from: Garmin nvi 2450LM 5-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Map UpdatesI have upgraded to the 2450 LM after having used a 750 for the last two and one half years. The routing logic of the 2450 has a lot to be desired. I have attempted to route to several different locations and the routing is neither the shortest or fastest, regardless of the routing preferences I have selected. For one route, the estimated travel time was one hour and twenty six minutes. To get the fastest route and the shortest route, I had to manually enter a turn. Then the travel time became fifty four minutes. When I chose the same destination with my 750, the route was what I would have expected. On another occasion, I routed from point A to B which took me in a round about way. When I routed back from B to A, I was taken back on a more direct route. There was nothing unusual about the roads, no one way streets or other oddities. Like an earlier review mentioned, the purpose of a PND is to get you from point A to B the most efficient way possible. The 2450 does not always do that. As of this review, I have the most current software for my unit. There is one improvement in the 2450 over the 750. It gets sattelite lock much quicker....
This review is from: Garmin nvi 2450LM 5-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Map UpdatesSales Road warrior here - I previously owned an early TomTom via satellite Puck, and also own Garmin 255. The 2450LM is worth buying BUT I was expecting a better upgrade from the 255 since these things have been on the market a while.Here are my gripes:The 2450LM is inexcusably slow. How about putting in a faster processor? Is that too much to ask in 2011? Everything else out there, cell phones, e readers, heck calculators have faster processors. It is time to stop subjecting drivers to slow processors. It is dangerous and irresponsible cost cutting.Graphics and refresh rates are slow. Just made a turn? Well hold on a sec while the GPS catches up to you. Need to go check the map or even revisit the lane assist feature - hold on. Gotta wait for the processor to think and screen to redraw.Also, you'll be driving and it randomly flashes the screen white/blank. Then it comes back. Anyway, that random flashing white part is distracting to the driver.Jaggies - maps have those jaggy curves in the road views. This isn't 1992 and we are not playing Corncob 3D....
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