Garmin GPS 265W

When You want to find a good, reliable and easy to use GPS with an affordable price, Garmin Nuvi 265W/WT is the one that you are looking for. Garmin 265W is provided with the big picture and big features like widescreen display, preloaded maps, turn-by-turn directions that call out streets by name, lifetime traffic and hands-free calling to simplify life on the go and just for a small price with. Please follow the detail of fearures below :

Widescreen Display

With widescreen display, you can view map detail, driving directions and always get the big picture. You can even view photos and more in bright, brilliant color. It has sunlight-readable, 4.3″ (10.92 cm) display is easy to read, from any direction.

Get Turn-by-Turn Directions

This Garmin 265W GPS has intuitive interface by asking you with two simple questions: “Where to?” and “View Map.” It comes preloaded with detailed City Navigator NT street maps, more than 6 million points of interest (POIs), 2-D or 3-D maps and smooth map redraw rates as you navigate. Its digital elevation maps show you shaded contours at higher zoom levels, giving you a big picture of the surrounding terrain. In addition, Garmin Nuvi 265WT accepts custom points of interest (POIs), such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs. With HotFix satellite prediction, this GPS calculates your position faster to get you there quicker.

Lifetime Traffic Information

This Garmin Nuvi 265W integrated with FM traffic receiver to receive alerts about traffic delays and road construction that lie ahead on your route. Next, simply touch Nuvi screen to view traffic details or detour around the problem area.

Make Hands-free Calls

For hands-free calling, nüvi 265WT integrates Bluetooth wireless technology with a built-in microphone and speaker. Just pair it with your compatible Bluetooth phone and talk hands-free through the 265WT while staying focused on the road. Simply dial numbers with nüvi’s touchscreen keypad to make a call. To answer calls, just tap the screen and speak into its built-in microphone. Enjoy convenient one-touch dialing for contacts and points of interest.

Garmin Nuvi 265W/WT Technical Details

• Bright 4.3-inch diagonal color touchscreen; 480 x 272 pixels, WQVGA TFT display with white backlight • Sleek, ultra-thin design fits easily in pocket • Preloaded with City Navigator North America NT • Supports Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free calling when paired with Bluetooth-enabled cell phones • NOTE: Model number on the box is 265WT because the traffic receiver is included; however, the model number on the device itself is 265W as the “T” in 265WT refers to the additional component

Garmin Nuvi 265WT Review

Here is one of the honest Garmin 265WT review by John S. Dean that already purchase and use this GPS. Spent a weekend reviewing various GPS devices to replace my less than 1 year old Mio C320 (avoid these like the plague) that had its battery die about 4 months after purchase. Went back and forth along the entire line of Garmin devices, and finally settled on this one for the blue tooth and traffic, neither of which I’ll probably hardly ever use, but nice to have when I want them. I was disappointed with the map, the “new” 2009 one, because I have some streets in my neighborhood that have been around for over four years and they’re not to be found on this unit. Even the piece of junk cheap Mio had these streets. But that’s about the only downside there is to it, the only reason I haven’t given it 5 stars. Having been used to the MIO, and the horrible refresh rate, it is a pleasant change to see smooth scrolling as my vehicle moves. The ability to change the car icon is nice, especially with the plethora of icons available on the garmin website. Accuracy is very good as well, and even in turns the unit isn’t so laggy that it becomes annoying. And also unlike what I was used to with the MIO, when I come to a stop at the intersection, the map doesn’t start rotating randomly on me. Speaker is about as I expected, won’t hear much over a loud stereo but crank it up enough you can at least hear it if you keep the music down a bit. The option to easily download voices is also appreciated. It did well with my testing of going point to point, following the instructions, and for the most part you’re given the instructions in plenty of time. only once or twice did it not tell me “turn right on such and such” until I was about 20 feet from the street, but that was when I was coming up on stop signs and had slowed down, so it may be compensating for the speed factor. Recalculation notice is a bit annoying, my MIO would say it once, sometimes this says it three times before it starts to display the alternate route. Still has about 900MB free on the internal memory for additional voices, icons, maps, and such, and with the SD slot there’s plenty of room to grow. I have a Verizon XV6900 phone with Windows Mobile 6.1, and while the bluetooth paired well and it can see the phone status, battery power, signal, even dialed and missed call lists, it never does get the phonebook. it gets a random entry and that’s it – so whenever I turn it on, I have just one user to select from, and it’s different each time. Still haven’t tracked that one down yet. But every other bluetooth option worked just fine. I’m not a fan of the very thick double power cable for it though, and it would be doubly annoying (no pun intended) if I were mounting this somewhere higher up on the window to have that double cable dangling down. I can see how the ads would get annoying sometimes (the free traffic is because it is advertising driven) but you don’t get them at all if you turn off the traffic feature, and since most of my driving isn’t around times that traffic is a concern, i can just leave it for when I really have a use for it. Good response to finger input, and while the unit is overall much better quality than the MIO, I really do miss the MIO’s ability to have an info pane down the last third of the screen and the map on the first two thirds of it when desired. But there’s some of that info available in the data bubbles on the bottom and top so I’ll survive.