Garmin 880 is an excellent GPS, but expensive
By Henry Dangelo (MEDFIELD, MA USA)
Have been using this for about a week since the day after it came out. Long time Garmin customer, and have loved the Street Pilot series.
Overall this is a great product. The voice recognition is excellent, with almost no errors if the radio is off. I do miss the remote that my street pilot came with, but as I get more used to the VR, I think that will go away.
The MSN features are good, with the best one (in my mind) being the ability to send map points directly to your Nuvi without connecting it to your computer. You do this via Live Search maps, not as good as Google maps, but not bad at all. You can move waypoints from Google maps, but you have to physically connect the unit to the computer.
Given the price I had hoped the GPS unit would find satellites immediately on starting (like the built in unit in my wife’s Honda). However (like the street pilot) it take about 20-30 seconds if the car has been turned off for a while.
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