What is your Nuvi missing?

The Nuvi is missing its easiness of adding POI simply by pressing button on screen. Rather than adding it to a program and transferring it to device is a pain.

Already has it, and is called Favorites

I don't see how it can get much simpler. Downloads take a few seconds and another few to load them on the unit. You can then bring up the ones you want to save and put them in your favorites. I bet you hate to have to push a button to turn the tv on and another to change channels and another for the volume....LOL

A QWERTY keyboard would be nice.

It could use a Hooters Girl that pops out of the screen when I'm "In the mood" feature! (LOL) Other than that...............(LOL)

I wish my Nuvi 660 ....

1. better FM transmitter
2. an external volume control (While I'm driving, I don't like to tap screen after screen to get to volume control.)
3. a small corner screen to tell me upcoming left/right turn (for the same reason as #2)

In my area traffic, is not big deal, I can do without. Money savings coupon is of no use to me. If I'm on interstate, I could care less about the coupon at local area. Cost me $2 in gas to save $1, good economics? Besides, I'm too cheap to subscribe to these things.

for phone numbers for "favorites"...Nuvi 360

You can edit your favorites and add a phone number to each one or if you looked them up and saved them in favorites if there was a phone number it will be there...

I have only had my nuvi for about a week... previously had the Sony NAV... one of the features that the Sony has that I really like is the ability to increase the font size of the screen, i.e. Normal, Large and Larger. This was a cool feature for older eyes.

I know that is not what the original title of this thread means, but I just discovered that I don't have any sample audio books on my Nuvi 360.

This is either because none came when Garmin replaced my 350 with a 360 after I sent the 350 in for service, or they got lost when I downloaded a new level of software, or more recently installed 2009 maps.

I just saw the titles of some other threads about possible ways to get free audio book downloads but wouldn't mind getting the original sample books.

Bernie

I just looked in my Nuvi 360 (350 + Bluetooth) manual (PDF file) and don't find "Add a Stop".

I think I remember my Nuvi popping up an indicator that when clicked on showed a message about an alternate route. This was quite a while ago either on the 350 I had until last September or on the 360 I have had since. Maybe I'm dreaming it?

I wish you can search for a POI with a phone number. I think this can be added with an update just as searching for a POI with a postal or zip code was added.

i have a nuvi 760 and i download routes from mapsourse all the time and u can check your tracks u can see where you have been pretty cool also try maplive u can look up anything and put it in your nuvi but for msn live u have to have a msn reciever as for what my nuvi is missing in my eyes it's missing nothing i'm content

I have a 350 also, and have several times seen a popup and heard the 350 say, "A better route is available". Clicking that will take the alternate route. What is believed is that on some routes, the GPS changes it's mind when you get closer to your destination for some reason.

Wish my nuvi had the weather thing and radio, alo would be cool if they had a 0-60 time sort of thing.

I've gone from an eMap, to a GPS60c, to a Street Pilot 2620 to a Nuvi 650. And what I miss on the Nuvi most is being able to do routes in mapsource and upload them to the gps. I can't believe Garmin left that out. Also, adding "Places" to the "where to" menu would be a nice touch. I was planning a route from home to Mt. Rushmore, and the ONLY way I could do it was by zooming way out in the map, then scroll around zooming in and out till I found it!

Access the internet via my bluetooth cell phone, for weather, Garmin online features and quick web browsing.

The ability to create a specific route on a pc and download it to the NUVI would be great for motorbike rides.

Here's hoping the NUVIfone, www.garmin.com/nuvifone, will do some of these things!

I wish I could enter in a route that i take verses what the Nuvi wants me to take. I find the nuvi great for local and short trips but on long trips (800-1000mi) it doesn't always pick the best route (weather, traffic, tolls, construction) and I would like to input my own route.

that is one thing I want in my next GPS, weather. I would like to have a GPS with weather radar on the screen.

I will it had a simple side mount volumne control.
No touch screen needed.....

I've been using my Nuvi 760 for about a month now and for the most part I'm happy with it. I bought it for my upcoming vacation and wanted to get familiar with it before I went.

Since you've asked, I wish that there was a way to tell the Nuvi that I have roads I want to avoid or that there are roads I prefer. The one thing that Garmin doesn't seem to realize is that while some roads may look good on a map, those roads sometimes have more traffic lights and are worse in the car!

No matter where I am going, the Nuvi wants to take me down Wadsworth Boulevard (CO-121), a local road that has a traffic light at (practically) every corner and a speed of 40 instead of a side road only a mile west of that major artery that has a speed of 35 and only three traffic lights along the entire route I would use it for.

I know I could force it to eschew CO-121 by simply inserting waypoints along the side-road, but this is a huge hassle. So I let it tell me to go down Wadsworth and then I drive down Garrison anyway. (Of course, at every corner the woman sounds irritated with me... "in 500 feet, turn right on Jewell Avenue... Turn right on Jewell Avenue... Recalculating. In .2 miles turn right on Florida Avenue..." and on she goes for the next three miles.

I used to use a mapping program years ago that had a feature whereby I could select a road and rate it as "avoid" or as "prefer" when plotting routes. The software stored it in a data table and then when programming routes, it took these preferences into account.

It would be nice if I could tell the Nuvi that I prefer Roads A, B, and C... and that I dislike roads D, E, and F. Then, when they are within a certain tolerance of diversion from an "optimal" route, the system would use my preferences. Garmin loves routing me to work along Hamden Avenue (another road that seems like a good idea because it is a major artery and has a slightly higher speed than say, Yale Avenue...)

I raced a friend the other day to test whether this is the best route. The rules were that you had to go the speed limit and obey all traffic laws. While The speed limit is only 30 on Yale and is as high as 45 on Hamden, the fact that Yale has fewer lights (and far less traffic) put me in the office parking lot about five minutes ahead of the route that Garmin reccomended!

Garmin needs to learn: it's not always about the math that you can see on the map.

just a built in traffic receiver.

I did a lengthy study of comparing the various Garmin Nüvi features and decided that the 260W fit my needs the best. Quite satisfied wit it, but could make good use of a multiple waypoint feature. I believe to get that I'd have to pay for the FM receiver capability, which I didn't want. My 260W has the capability for only one waypoint.

As has been mentioned in other posts, some kind of route learning feature would be nice too. I always take a particular road that the Garmin never selects. After several trips the Garmin could just use that road as a default.

to connect to my back up cam. (reverse camera)

Would really like to have the ability to tell the system (Nuvi760) to avoid certain roads. There is a road near my home that the system is always telling me to take but unfortunately the road is not complete. Also there are times when I know that certain roads are closed i.e. due to construction but the route still wants me to take that road and I have to wait until I am coming up on the road to tell the unit to avoid it. Also I would like to see a better display that shows what lane I should be in so I could plan ahead when turns are coming up.

A pause button would be nice. If you stop for lunch or potty break - just press the pause and when you are ready to go, press the pause again. No recalulate.

Thats the point, it's not really meant to be carried into the field, thats why it doesn't have a compass.

If your walking doing Geocaching, go to Ebay and get a hand held GPSr.

Bob

I would like my nuvi 750 to have some indication that the battery is low so I'd better plug it in - audible and visual would be nice (not just the battery meter...) AND I would like to be able to modify the 2D vehicle icon. If either of these already exist, I don't know where......

"Multiple waypoints, and the ability to make routes on MapSource and upload them to the Nuvi, and download tracks from the Nuvi." I agree and also
would like to change menus like my garmin legend

Mark

I create routes on MapSource version 6.14.1 with multiple waypoints and download the routes into my 760 all the time. Then I just go to the "My Data" menu and select "Import Route from File" from the menu and select the route or routes I downloaded, select "Import" and they will then appear under routes as one of the selections available.

I also found it is quite simple to upload the tracks from the Nuvi into MapSource and each one appears as a seperate selectable entry.

The only thing I would like is to be able to purchase a backup camera from Garmin that interfaced directly with the 760.

I have downloaded tracks from my Nuvi 760 numerous times with Mapsource. Its really impressive. I'll upload some screnshots on how to do it a little later - will tkae me a few to set upo the webpage just right

I tested sending routes from map source to my nuvi - it supposedly got sent...but I cant seem to find it on the nuvi.

One thing I wish i could do is have my nuvi recognized as a gps when connected to my coomputer. I'm able to send/recieve data with Mapsource between the gps/pc, garmin's POI Loader, and webupdater, but for the life of me I cant get gStart to recognize my gps, or get Mapsource to read my current location from the gps.

Just do the following after you "Transfer" the routes to the GPS from MapSource: Just go to the icon for "My Data" and select it then select "Import Route from File" from the menu and mark the selection boxes for the route or routes that you downloaded, then select "Import" and they will then appear under routes in the route menu as one of the selections available.

I had a Nuvi and got rid of it because it was so stripped down. When Garmin introduced the Nuvi they engineered and designed it with tech deficient people in mind, and have basically kept it there since. The only thing they managed to do was make it thin, then crapped out the sound quality.
So actually they have been steadily removing the best features since the premier of the Nuvi.

I guess they have to compete in todays market, and it's a tough one.

Those of you new to GPSr's might not agree, however those that remember the early streetpilots will know what I speak of.

My two cents.

Bob

QWERTY Keyboard that greys out letters that are no longer possibilities in the street or city names. Audio confirmation of each pressed letter VS. just a "beep". I know that the newer Nuvi's have some of these along with voice recognition. I smell an upgrade ...

I have a simple 250W and it does just fine - hate these things with too many "add on" functions. Nice to play with but when you are just getting from A to B lets keep it simple please.

The one function they should add is the ability to tell the machine to navigate AND charge OR compute AND charge when a standard USB is plugged in.

I figured out how to Use mapsource to send routes to my nuvi. If anyone needs help let me know

Here's a link to a tutorial I just wrote - covers the nuvi 760 - I assume it will be very similar for others in the Nuvi line. Drop me a note if its not.

http://www.goonybird.org/MapsourceRoutesToGPS/

You wouldn't have guessed it, but I'm not really a gadget person. While I do want my car to go 0-60 in 4.8, but I don't want any flash about it, more stealth. At work they had to pry my 2 y.o. ThinkPad out of my hands to get me to upgrade to the latest/greatest HP. Who needs a lightscribe DVD burner, this is work! Also don't need a widescreen and 4 gb ram. I was happy with 512mb.

Anyway, not having a QWERTY keyboard immediately made no sense to me in the 660. I believe that's been corrected on the 760, right? The 660 isn't that old, I'm amazed they didn't offer an easier way to type. Nice if a firmware flash could add this feature.

Ok, I wont then, because your wrong.
only a few states forbid windshield mounts.
Cali, KS and anyone else can chime in if their state does not allow these mounts. KS, might have even changed back to allow them again, not sure.

Bob

If you own audio Books, you can rip the cd, then convert all to mp3 files and send them to the SD card. Thats what I do!

or

For those interested:
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/

Bob

My wish is that Garmin would actually care what we the consumers think, and take note to the wish list.

With that said I know consumers want low prices, and the GPSr field is becoming flooded with very good competition at really low pricing. So Garmin has to compete for it's life making cuts we the consumers don't like, while other company's, are developing units with all the things and options Garmin has cut or is charging extra for such as traffic. And these company's will knock Garmin off the pedestal they have held for so many years.

Wake up Garmin we are talking to you directly!

My favorite GPSr is already not a Garmin, because of your cuts in features, and your extremely high prices if I wanted those cut features.

My next purchase may make me Garminless for the first time in many years, if things don't change real fast, because there are now to many fish in the sea.

Bob

Wake up!

How about a GPSr that does GPSr stuff really well! No half-baked music player (it’ll never be as good as my cheapest radio), no cameras (it’ll never be as good as the cheapest digital camera), no talking to my cell phone, no wiping my fanny (sorry…). There is no convergent device on the market of any kind that does even a fraction of the stated functions well... PLUS they end up not doing the intended function nearly as well as it should. The more they try to do, the less they concentrate on the intended function, and the more (hw/sw) conflicts that occur causing problems with the intended function.

I’ll probably get a lot of disagreement with this, but just look at the iPhone. A really neat innovative device that doesn’t do a particularly good job of making phone calls. Even earlier smartphones, like the Palm Treo line, were plagued with “phone” and email issues. I had a Treo650 for years and liked it, but it didn’t excel at being a phone or email device. If Palm didn’t worry about playing music, playing movies, playing games, taking pictures, etc, maybe they would have done a much better job at the stuff that was suppose to make it so smart.

Please make my Nuvi the best device possible at showing me where I am, showing me where I want to go, and get me there in the best possible manner. That will take up-to-date maps, careful interaction with local traffic conditions (maybe even help stimulate innovation that will get the info to the consumer/user), easy to use interfaces, etc.

My soap-box just collapsed under my considerable weight, so I’ll quit now.

I wish I could change the tone of her voice. She sounds like an older woman that smokes heavily...and she always sounds frustrated with me! hah

my nuvi350 needs 2 min to acquire satellite signals
hope it faster

I would like to be able to plot a destination and be able to speed up the route simulation, it is painfully slow!

I agree completely. I have only owned Garmins, but during my last purchase I was tempted to purchase a different brand with more features.

While Garmin is still the market leader in the US, their lead is decreasing. I predict that if they don't make some fundamental changes in their products, they will lose the lead within a year or two.

IMHO, Garmin needs to do two things. First, streamline the product line. Garmin has WAY WAY too many different models. It is confusing for the consumer and also difficult for the retailers to stock so many different models. (As of today there are 21, yes 21, different Nuvi models. And that's not counting the discontinued Nuvi models!!!)

Second, add some customizable options to the units. It dumbfounds me that Garmin hasn't done this already. It only requires revising the software.

Garmin better make some changes pretty soon. All you have to do is look at their stock price to see that they are heading in the wrong direction.

You are right, I bought my 260 in April and with the new 255 out now, it is only a mater of time before the 260 will be discontinued. From what I have read here, there may be features that can be download (ie: Query keyboard to mention one) to us . We all paid good money and yes, the Nuvi is good, but I guess if you want new features you have to upgrade. It would be nice if Garmin had a Menu of upgrades for a small fee....... Query keyboard $10.00 - download

From Garmin's site this is a list of the units that have the ability to do custom routing on the computer in MapSource and then transfer the route to the Garmin device.

GPS V

StreetPilot III
StreetPilot 2600 Series
StreetPilot 2700 Series
StreetPilot 2800 Series
StreetPilot 7200/7500

Quest
Quest 2

nüvi 700 Series
nüvi 800 Series
nüvi 5000 Series

zumo Series