Garmin nüvi 850 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Voice Command and FM Transmitter
- 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
Product Description
With the nüvi 800 series, Garmin adds smooth speech recognition to its bestselling line of sleek portable Automotive GPS Systems. As with all nüvis, you get a slim, pocket-sized navigator with a gorgeous display, detailed NAVTEQ maps that let you search by name for more than 6 million points of interest like stores, restaurants or hospitals, and an easy, intuitive interface. All of the 800-series navigators also feature a rich array of features including spoken directions in real street names, integrated traffic receivers, MP3 player and photo viewer, and an FM transmitter that will play all the nüvi’s audio, including voice prompts, MP3s, audio books, and more, directly through your vehicle’s stereo sys… More >>
Garmin nüvi 850 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Voice Command and FM Transmitter
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7:01 pm on November 18th, 2009
We have been researching new GPS units on Amazon for several weeks. What a delight when this model became available (supposedly) on sale, as it was at the top of our “ready to purchase” list. The summary of reviews for the product indicated that it had the features that we wanted most and that the features that we did not want were mostly missing. Overall comments on performance and ease of usage were good.
This review does not address the product, but the seemingly unfair special sales policies at Amazon.com. We tried to contact Amazon about this but they have “streamlined” their help and contact menus so that you can no longer easily find a way to address issues with sales or product presentations.
This item was placed on sale at Amazon.com at 0300 AM, 30 September 2009, assuming west coast time provided by the message. We opened the email at 0830 AM and the item was already SOLD OUT. What does this mean? The item was apparently available at a rather decent early morning time for East coast buyers. West coast buyers presumably have access three hours or more behind other buyers back east. Otherwise, this means that very, very few numbers of this item were truly available for sale to begin with.
Could this be partially resolved by posting the sales at the same local time for each time zone?
The overall situation deserves one star or less.
Rating: 1 / 5
7:54 pm on November 18th, 2009
The Garmin nuvi 850 is exactly what we were looking for. Works fairly good. This is the second time our credit card number has been compromised after purchasing an item through Amazon. Would recommend you use paypal instead.
Rating: 3 / 5
10:06 pm on November 18th, 2009
love my Garmin nuvi!!! it works great- i especially like the voice recognition feature. I use it for my business and this is the best gps i have bought!
Rating: 4 / 5
12:51 am on November 19th, 2009
I have not actually used this but I have been attempting to learn it and do not find it easy to do. I am aware, however, that the battery life is not as long as I think it should be. I can’t actually say how long the battery lasts, but I have found that if I work with trying to figure out how to use it and leave it for a few hours, the battery life has diminished. If I leave it over night, it is practically depleted.
Rating: 3 / 5
1:34 am on November 19th, 2009
I have had 4 different GPS units in the last 20 years, and this unit certainly has the quickest learning period (5 min or so!).
Richard
Rating: 5 / 5