http://www.jialat.com/2009/12/02/my-1st-experience-with-nuvifone-m20/ Money | Scandals | Gossips | Fun | Celebrities | IT | Life Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:25:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.jialat.com/2009/12/02/my-1st-experience-with-nuvifone-m20/comment-page-1/#comment-8594 scottielogic Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:04:48 +0000 http://www.jialat.com/?p=3371#comment-8594 I have now owned my nuvi 780 for about 2 months and love it. Previously I owned a Garmin StreetPilot C580 which was a nice basic GPS, but I like the many features on the nuvi 780 better. I recently sold my C580 to a friend for most of what I paid for it at the time I purchased it nine months ago. Nine months ago, the c580 was a discontinued (and discounted) model and the nuvi 780 was Garmin's top model selling for hundreds more. Today the nuvi 780 is also discontinued, and selling for less than $50 more than I paid for my C580. The nuvi 780 has almost too many features which I like to try to cover in a short review. It seems like every day I learn somthing new about the 780 that I like. Just today I "discovered" the "trip information" feature. This allows you to view a LARGE speedometer and a compass plus things like average speed, time while moving, time stopped, max speed, etc. since the last time the trip info was reset. This info is available at any time, whether your navigating to a destination or just looking at the GPS map. I also like and make frequent use of the Transmitter feature, which I find far more useful than you may gather from other revues. This allows getting driving directions over the FM radio instead of the GPS speaker. You have to find a "dead" spot on the FM radio and tune the nuvi 780 transmitter to the same frequency. I find that from day to day that the "dead spot" FM frequency may change, but I always seem to be able to find a frequency on which the GPS transmitter will work. The one area where the C580 was superior was in audio volume. The C580 had two large speakers (the nuvi 780 has only one smaller speaker), and the C580 had a physical volume control in addition to the programmable volume control the 780 has. If I set the 780 proggrammable volume to 100%, it is still not as loud as the C580 at max volume, but it can be heard clearly even with the car radio playing. Also, using the nuvi 780 transmitter to broadcast GPS instructions over the FM radio speakers, the sound than beats the C580 for volume and clarity. I like the 4.3" diagnol screen on the 780 which is 70% larger than the screen on my old C580. This makes pressing soft keys on the screen easier and allows seeing more of the surrounding terrain. I particularly like the cradle which the 780 attaches to. This allows installing or removing the GPS without removing or insrting any cables since all cables (power, GPS cable, etc.) connect to the cradle, not the GPS. Finally, the nuvi 780 seems a little solider design than the C580 was. With the C580, I occasionally (onece every 50 power ONs) found that with the GPS power plugged into the car cigaret lighter, when the car ignition was turned on, the GPS would not turn ON. To turn the GPS on, it was necessary to turn the car ignition off and then back on again. I've never seen this on the nuvi 780. I also like the fact that the 780 has a "walking" mode which the C580 did not have. On one occasion I was able to use the 780 to locate my car in a large parking lot. The 780 "where am I" feature allows quickly locating a police station or hospital near where you are, which would be very useful in an emergency. Overall I am very satisfied with the nuvi 780 and highly recommend it. I have now owned my nuvi 780 for about 2 months and love it. Previously I owned a Garmin StreetPilot C580 which was a nice basic GPS, but I like the many features on the nuvi 780 better. I recently sold my C580 to a friend for most of what I paid for it at the time I purchased it nine months ago. Nine months ago, the c580 was a discontinued (and discounted) model and the nuvi 780 was Garmin’s top model selling for hundreds more. Today the nuvi 780 is also discontinued, and selling for less than $50 more than I paid for my C580. The nuvi 780 has almost too many features which I like to try to cover in a short review. It seems like every day I learn somthing new about the 780 that I like. Just today I “discovered” the “trip information” feature. This allows you to view a LARGE speedometer and a compass plus things like average speed, time while moving, time stopped, max speed, etc. since the last time the trip info was reset. This info is available at any time, whether your navigating to a destination or just looking at the GPS map. I also like and make frequent use of the Transmitter feature, which I find far more useful than you may gather from other revues. This allows getting driving directions over the FM radio instead of the GPS speaker. You have to find a “dead” spot on the FM radio and tune the nuvi 780 transmitter to the same frequency. I find that from day to day that the “dead spot” FM frequency may change, but I always seem to be able to find a frequency on which the GPS transmitter will work. The one area where the C580 was superior was in audio volume. The C580 had two large speakers (the nuvi 780 has only one smaller speaker), and the C580 had a physical volume control in addition to the programmable volume control the 780 has. If I set the 780 proggrammable volume to 100%, it is still not as loud as the C580 at max volume, but it can be heard clearly even with the car radio playing. Also, using the nuvi 780 transmitter to broadcast GPS instructions over the FM radio speakers, the sound than beats the C580 for volume and clarity. I like the 4.3″ diagnol screen on the 780 which is 70% larger than the screen on my old C580. This makes pressing soft keys on the screen easier and allows seeing more of the surrounding terrain. I particularly like the cradle which the 780 attaches to. This allows installing or removing the GPS without removing or insrting any cables since all cables (power, GPS cable, etc.) connect to the cradle, not the GPS. Finally, the nuvi 780 seems a little solider design than the C580 was. With the C580, I occasionally (onece every 50 power ONs) found that with the GPS power plugged into the car cigaret lighter, when the car ignition was turned on, the GPS would not turn ON. To turn the GPS on, it was necessary to turn the car ignition off and then back on again. I’ve never seen this on the nuvi 780. I also like the fact that the 780 has a “walking” mode which the C580 did not have. On one occasion I was able to use the 780 to locate my car in a large parking lot. The 780 “where am I” feature allows quickly locating a police station or hospital near where you are, which would be very useful in an emergency. Overall I am very satisfied with the nuvi 780 and highly recommend it.

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]]> http://www.jialat.com/2009/12/02/my-1st-experience-with-nuvifone-m20/comment-page-1/#comment-8567 Joe Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:51:56 +0000 http://www.jialat.com/?p=3371#comment-8567 Hi, is the phone running on Window Mobile 6.5 already? Hi, is the phone running on Window Mobile 6.5 already?

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