Comments on: TOP RATED!!!… The Garmin StreetPilot c580 http://tangledwires.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/top-rated-the-garmin-streetpilot-c580/ looking to straighten them out... Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:44:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: GMan http://tangledwires.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/top-rated-the-garmin-streetpilot-c580/#comment-2014 GMan Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:04:55 +0000 http://tangledwires.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/top-rated-the-garmin-streetpilot-c580/#comment-2014 Surely they don't have the same GPS I recieved a few days ago. I'm sure they think their complaints are valid -- I just don't see it. I've been using m[ine for four days and love. RIght out of the box and on my dash in forty minutes. Would have been even quicker but I took time t read the reviews and update the firmware to the latest version as well as the new voice (JILL) from Garmin's site. Perhaps that's what made the difference. No freezes. No unexpected reboots. Been smooth sailing all the way. A few things that weren't documented. The GPS can be tiled forward and backward as well as rotated on it's mount. I was a bit concerned when I first put the unit on my dash because my dash angles back. I was afraid I would be able to get a good angle in sunlight to see the screen. Garmin's mount design is brilliant but I discoverd the tilt feature quite by accident when I grapsed the unit to push down on the self-adhesive gasket. I live near Chicago -- very congested area constantly changing. I was pleasantly surprised the mapset has a lot of recent developments. One thing I thought I would hate is the speaker on the power cable. But it angles back to lie flush with the dash and I LOVE the sound. My old TOM TOM could barely be heard over road noise once I got over 55 mph. The GARMIN speaker is high quality and the female voice isn't drowned out. Very responsive as far as routing and prompting turns. Much faster than my old GPS 60CS in fact. I have a route to a local beach on Lake Michigan which features a series of rapid turns in succession. The 2720 keeps up with amazing speed, <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/buy.garmin.streetpilot.2720-20" rel="nofollow">buy garmin 2720 gps</a> . And if I miss a turn it seems to detect it much quicker than my 60CS and reroutes almost immediately. I couldn't be more pleased with this purchase. I toyed with the idea of getting the 2730 but XM Radio/XM Traffic just wasn't something I was interested in at this point in time. I highly recommend this device. If you buy it UPDATE the firmware immediately and update the voice. The new firmware features a new interface/map layout than what's shown in the promo pics on Amazon and Garmin. The Turn Arrow icon has been moved of the sidebar and now overlays the map. And the Direction Text is no longer across the top in a greenbar but on the sidebar in a box. Much more pleasing to the eye in my opinon. It's also a much more stable device than it apparently was several months ago. WHich is typical of GPS units. THe bugs get worked out slowly in a series of firmware updates. Surely they don’t have the same GPS I recieved a few days ago. I’m sure they think their complaints are valid — I just don’t see it.

I’ve been using m[ine for four days and love. RIght out of the box and on my dash in forty minutes. Would have been even quicker but I took time t read the reviews and update the firmware to the latest version as well as the new voice (JILL) from Garmin’s site. Perhaps that’s what made the difference.

No freezes. No unexpected reboots. Been smooth sailing all the way.

A few things that weren’t documented.

The GPS can be tiled forward and backward as well as rotated on it’s mount. I was a bit concerned when I first put the unit on my dash because my dash angles back. I was afraid I would be able to get a good angle in sunlight to see the screen. Garmin’s mount design is brilliant but I discoverd the tilt feature quite by accident when I grapsed the unit to push down on the self-adhesive gasket.

I live near Chicago — very congested area constantly changing. I was pleasantly surprised the mapset has a lot of recent developments.

One thing I thought I would hate is the speaker on the power cable. But it angles back to lie flush with the dash and I LOVE the sound. My old TOM TOM could barely be heard over road noise once I got over 55 mph. The GARMIN speaker is high quality and the female voice isn’t drowned out. Very responsive as far as routing and prompting turns. Much faster than my old GPS 60CS in fact.

I have a route to a local beach on Lake Michigan which features a series of rapid turns in succession. The 2720 keeps up with amazing speed, buy garmin 2720 gps . And if I miss a turn it seems to detect it much quicker than my 60CS and reroutes almost immediately.

I couldn’t be more pleased with this purchase. I toyed with the idea of getting the 2730 but XM Radio/XM Traffic just wasn’t something I was interested in at this point in time.

I highly recommend this device.

If you buy it UPDATE the firmware immediately and update the voice. The new firmware features a new interface/map layout than what’s shown in the promo pics on Amazon and Garmin. The Turn Arrow icon has been moved of the sidebar and now overlays the map. And the Direction Text is no longer across the top in a greenbar but on the sidebar in a box. Much more pleasing to the eye in my opinon.

It’s also a much more stable device than it apparently was several months ago. WHich is typical of GPS units. THe bugs get worked out slowly in a series of firmware updates.

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