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Garmin StreetPilot® 2620 Car GPS Receiver Product 010-00357-03 Key FeaturesDesignationAutomobileForm FactorFixedMap capabil...

Overall excellent - Garmin StreetPilot® 2620 Car GPS Receiver I have had a StreetPilot 2620 for over four months and have used it to get around unfamiliar cities and to drive f...

As a commercial real estate appraiser I *LIVE* on mine, often seeing 30 properties in a day between Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. It is a huge improvement over prior models I’ve owned - especially the free software updates and overall usability. I am constantly punching addresses in, and though I’ve done hundreds if not more than a thousand by how I’ve NEVER been taken to the wrong address.

Note, the free software updates fixed an early glitch where my system would reset while searching for “SR-7″ (State Road 7). DO YOUR UPDATES.

I don’t completely trust the routing on any GPS/mapping system, though it is at least as good as or similar to Microsoft Streets route optimization. I usually use Streets first, optimize, adjust the route slightly manually, print the directions and then rely on the Garmin in the route order from Streets.

It is mostly great, so I’ll focus on the 2% that’s not so wonderful.

Hardware: the plastic shoe on the power connection is weak, and I had to replace mine because it bent, interrupting power in-route. There’s no battery backup, either, so when it goes out, it has to reboot. The traffic connector is difficult to remove and locks the power-shoe in, so I find myself sometimes not using it. That’s it for hardware.

Software: (1) the routing is OK, but not perfect. (2) After some disasters (my bad) I don’t tweak the system. Lots of options but I found myself going way out of the way a few times after experimenting… its not necessary out of the box. (3) I have turned off automatic recalculating and just try to find my way back to the route when off. (4) I wish I could re-program the basic assumptions about road-speeds. I’d like to drop Interstate down a bit, but state highways waaaaay down to maybe 35mph. I’ve done this in Streets and find that the routes are more realistic.

Traffic module: The good part is that you sometimes know when to MAYBE expect traffic, when there’s traffic. The downside is that it is not very accurate so you can hit traffic when not expected, or breeze through an expected jam. Also, as I said, the cable is a tight fit. I did not hook it up to my antenna and it appears to work just fine, by the way.

Helpful, but not Flawless - Garmin StreetPilot® 2620 Car GPS Receiver Overall, I'm happy with my purchase of the Garmin StreetPilot 2620, but the unit isn't as flawless as Garmin would...

Get a Garmin StreetPilot 2620 and never ask for directions again. - Garmin StreetPilot® 2620 Car GPS Receiver When I bought my new car, I passed on the GPS system from the factory. As the next year wore on, I was regretting...

Garmin 2620: GPS ready to use straight out of the box. - Garmin StreetPilot® 2620 Car GPS Receiver I wanted a GPS for a while. I had a few ideas of exactly what I wanted. I know I'll use it more in my truck than o...

Which Garmin to Choose - Garmin StreetPilot® 2620 Car GPS Receiver I purchased the 2620 to replace a stolen 2610 that I had come to rely on during long distance drives and business ...

Cool Device That’s A Hassle to Update - Garmin StreetPilot® 2620 Car GPS Receiver I bought this device for two reasons: (1) to experiment with GPS technology, to which I was new; and (2) because i...

Never get lost again! - Garmin StreetPilot® c330 Car GPS Receiver I LOVE my garmin. I travel for work to 23 different states and my Garmin makes my life SOOOOOOOOO much easier! ...

Regrets? I’ve had a few. This is one of them. - Tomtom ONE 3RD EDITION Europe GPS Receiver

Used it a week now, and it’s going great! - Garmin StreetPilot® 2620 Car GPS Receiver