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Electronics : Garmin Mobile 20 GPS Receiver for Smartphone |
- horrible gpsThis is a horrible product. The concept is great but the execution is horrible. It works great as a bluetooth speakerphone but I bought it as a GPS product for my Treo 700p. It looses satellites pretty often while driving and you should be very lucky to get the signals back. I called Garmin and they asked me to send the unit to them and they send me another one, but the behavior was exactly the same.
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- Nice product, terrible customer serviceNice product, especially for the price of $67.00. Now if I were to have paid full price, I wouldn't be happy. Does everything I needed it to do, but like others have noted, Garmin customer service leaves a lot to be desired. The rep didn't want to listen to what my problem was, more interested in telling me what he "knew". Said he would send an email with the update I needed. Email came without updates. I guess it was too much to ask for. Shame on me. I'll just live with the older maps for now as I dont want to deal with them again.
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- Reasonably good GPS for your cell phoneI bought this as I was headed to Seattle on vacation and didn't want to wander all over and try reading street signs and the map while driving. I don't need GPS much and didn't want to spend a lot and I liked the idea of a device that I could use with my cell phone.
This unit worked really well and the maps were pretty up to date, although my cousins address was not found it got me close enough that I got there anyway. The drawbacks: I was sometimes slow getting connected to the GPS unit and the satellites; the phone would turn off every 3 minutes if there wasn't a turn or something like that that refreshed the screen and Garmin's web site didn't seem to know about this product so help and accessories, map updates weren't available or even easily found.
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- works with 8525I've only had it a couple of days, but so far it works great. And being able to map addresses from my contacts awesome :) I would have given it 5 stars, but I had to get my own maps (used a torrent, so no $ but lots of time) and I have to turn off my phone plug in the charger and then turn it back on to get it to charge (this may just be a bad cable though and I'm going to get another from garmin or amazon). I loaded the software from Garmin website (mobile XT, support files and free base maps) and then got the maps to load, kind of glad I did it that way too. I have the 2009 maps and I can choose what states I want on my phone, so it isn't using up all my memory. You can use the POIs, garmin online, and the maps without the gps being connected, it just doesn't follow your position shows you as being at the last place it was connected. If I had wanted to buy the maps I could have used the 10% off you get from garmin when you register this to buy them.
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- got a a garmin 10x instead.I wanted somthing that will work on my cell phone and pda so i ended up returning this one and got something else. Garmin 10X
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