Overall, the thing works. When you consider what an amazing thing any GPS is, the complaints seem small, but here they are:
I HATE that this unit displays your speed constantly instead of being able to select to display your distance to your destination as on my older Garmin Streetpilot. Doesn't every car have a speedometer? Why in the world would I need my GPS to tell me how fast I'm going? I don't like have to touch the screen to have it show my distance to destination, then again to go back to the map--I would like my distance to destination shown all the time rather than my speed. I am hoping a future firmware update will fix this problem.
I also hate that when on freeways, it will give me the distance of 1-3 miles until my next "turn", but when I get there, the instruction is just to continue on that same freeway--"bear left"---so until I get close to that next "turn", I think it's going to tell me to exit but then in reality it seems to have these invisible landmarks and so to figure out how much longer I'm really staying on the freeway, I have to go to the turns list and add up all the fake "turns" until it really is going to tell me to exit the freeway. This could potentially also be fixed by a firmware update I'm hoping.
Those are two pretty big complaints. I actually with I could just go back to my old Streetpilot, but the touchscreen stopped working after 5 years of use. Other than that, I've had no problem with the volume of the voice commands, though I find the Australian male voice to be the loudest and easiest to understand, and I want to try the custom downloadable voices that others have mentioned are available from third parties.Get more detail about Garmin nüvi 855 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Speech Recognition.
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