How about some new features Garmin?
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With about two weeks worth of use on my new Garmin 1490LMT I already have a few feature suggestions.
1. Mute Button - why doesn't Garmin just put a small MUTE button on the active map screen. It seems odd that I'd have to go to another screen to mute the volume. The scenario is as follows. I'm shopping for a new house. I plug in the location given to me by my realtor. On the way to the house I drive by a neighborhood that looks interesting. I turn into the neighborhood to see if there are any houses for sale. Of course the first thing the GPS does is it starts barking at me to get me back on track to the programmed location. Why isn't there a MUTE button or PAUSE button on the map screen to I can temporarily shut the lady up in the GPS who is barking new instructions at me?
2. Automatic Road Noise Sound Adjust - if you have a vehicle like mine then you probably noticed that the faster you drive the louder the road noise is. Why doesn't Garmin have a feature you can enable that automatically increases the speaker volume as you increase your driving speed. With my SUV you need the volume to be higher at 50 MPH versus 35 MPH.
3. Customizable POI buttons - It'd be nice if this GPS allowed you to create customizable buttons for POIs. Perhap Garmin could give you the ability to add up to three small buttons on the map screen located on the left hand side. Seems like a bit of work, while driving, to have to hit Back > WHERE TO? Down Arrow > Extras > Custom POIs > Category . If I had the described POI buttons then I could set up my favorite POIs accessible from the map screen. Say perhaps, a button called Rest Areas. I'd just tap that button to see where the next closest rest area is while traveling down the interstate highway. Or if you were a coffee freak you could have a button for Starbucks. Go wild and use your imagination.
T-Mobile may be joined to AT&T
Even if Garmin should lose it's contract with AT&T, the radio is GSM, which would allow connection with other carriers like T-Mobile.
AT&T trying to buy T-Mobile
Zumo 550 on a 2014 Indian Chiefain, Garmin RV660
2460
upcoming street, muted recalculating are part of this unit, in fact a lot of the features folks want here are part of this unit.
Scenic route would be nice.
. 2 Garmin DriveSmart 61 LMT-S, Nuvi 2689, 2 Nuvi 2460, Uniden R3 radar detector with GPS built in, includes RLC info. Uconnect 430N Garmin based, built into my Jeep. .
Via Points
When I program a route using Mapsource, I add way points to force the 1490 to route the way I want to go. I would like a code to mute these way points as I navigate the route. I don't mind seeing the flags on the screen, I just want Jill to keep her mouth shut as we approach.
1490LMT 1450LMT 295w
New Features
Heck... I don't need any "NEW" features.... just bring back some of the "OLD" features.
Selectable/Changable Information Text Boxes, More "Detail" settings, the displaying of the name of the "Road Ahead".
And of course, the most missed and desired feature that Garmin has removed is the much greater detail level showing the names of Side street, parks, ponds, rivers, streams etc.
PLEASE give that back to us Garmin.
Agree with OP on all 3
Agree with OP on all 3 suggested features. There should also be a hardware volume control (like the wheel on the side of Streetpilots).
And I'm saying again, I need to avoid those 'hated' roads of mine in the suggested routes. Detour feature doesn't do the job.
Indeed, that next road feature >>>
Why don't they just put back some of the features the old Street Pilots had? Other then the newer displays, my old 2820 is twice the GPS that the new boy toys are.
was really nice to have...a lot of what is being said here is what drives me to TT these days...if we vote with our money maybe Garmin will listen!
"You can't get there from here"
I want to see a built in
I want to see a built in radar detector and a reverse camera. These screens are pretty nice these days, why not play movies.
Nuvi 1450LMT Nuvi 260 Nuvi 350 "There are no stupid questions, just a lot of inquisitive idiots." "Am I one?"
nüvi 760
I just can't see much in the newer units that would tempt me away from my trusty 760. The lack of an audible book player and an audio-out port is a deal killer for me on any of them. For every new "cool thing" Garmin has added it seems that they took away other things.
GPSMAP 76CSx - nüvi 760 - nüvi 200 - GPSMAP 78S
Garmin 1490T deal broken for me... that Auto Volume Control
I have been trying to confirm, is the Auto Volume Control with Vehicle Speed feature REALLY not present on the 1490T and this thread seems to confirm it. My Circa 2004 Tomtom has had this ever since a firmware upgrade on, oh 2005 or so and I now consider it essential so as not to disturb a sleeping missus when the vol is set correct for motorway speeds, slow down to street speed and with fixed volume the GPS voice is shattering!
SUCH a simple software mod - the Sat Nav already KNOWS my speed, geddit?
Pity as the Garmin had everything else I wanted.
get an escort
I want to see a built in radar detector and a reverse camera. These screens are pretty nice these days, why not play movies.
Escort makes a nav and radar detector combo, passport iq. I would have considered this myself, but I like my 9500ix and c340 too much
Streetpilot C340 Nuvi 2595 LMT
yes!
While I will never forgive Garmin for removing the map details at the 1.2 km zoom levels nor for removing the names of upcoming cross streets, I would like to see Garmin start by fixing the very long list of things that are broken with what they already have out there
Just make the damned things work reliably & properly, something that hasn't happened since the release of the GPSMAP 276 and Nuvi 360 series units.
Garmin ain't what she used to be and, like others out there, Garmin will be seeing no more of my money until they get their act together. These days their products are simply crap.
While GPS units don't cost $50K any more, Garmin makes up for it with huge volumes.
Even so, for a lot less than what they charge for a device like the 3790 you can buy a mechanically and electronically much more sophisticated device, such as a camcorder that you would be returning in a second if it worked as unreliably as Garmin's navigators do.
Yes...100% true...I've never owned an electronic device with so many problems, as Garmin Nuvi765T before. I like Nuvi 3790, but...it's Garmin and that's why I would be thinking twice if I should decide to buy the one...
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features
i like the old detail feature. i'm cool with the current features.