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Garmin nüvi 295W 3.5-Inch Widescreen Wi-Fi Portable GPS Navigator | 
| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $279.99
Buy New: $144.00 (On sale from $184.00)
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 1201
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 3.55
Battery: 1 Rechargeable Li-ion
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 4.4 x 0.6 x 2.3
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MPN: 010-00916-00
Model: 010-00916-00
UPC: 753759105686
EAN: 0753759105686
ASIN: B003DZ14EU
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| » | Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging | | » | Spoken street names (e.g. "Turn right on Elm street in 500 ft.") | | » | Dual-orientation automatically switches between portrait and landscape view | | » | 3 MP camera with auto-focus | | » | Wi-Fi hotspot connectivity | | » | MP3 player with 2.5mm headphone jack/audio line-out | | » | 1-step navigation from contacts, e-mail, and local search results |
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Product Description
Garmin's nuvi 295W offers a new take on an old favorite with Wi-Fi connectivity, a 3 MP camera with auto-focus, dual orientation capability and much more.
Get Connected
Wi-Fi connectivity on the nuvi 295W provides a full desktop experience with an HTML browser so you can surf the web whenever and wherever you choose. Check and send e-mail, including Hotmail, G-mail, AOL mail, POP3 and IMAP, and view email attachments of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and JPG files. You can also search an abundance of customer-rated points of interest (POIs), such as restaurants, hotels and more, using Google Local Search.
Get Going
With a single tap on the dual-oriented screen, you can avoid writing down addresses and go straight to your destination. nuvi 295W offers a 1-touch navigation from your e-mail, address book and local search results. Additionally, the unique 3MP camera geotags pictures so you can create routes to them. You can also send the picture to a friend to route to or upload to the web to auto-locate on a map.
Get Turn-By-Turn Directions
With an intuitive interface that greets you with simple icons and a scrollable menu, nuvi 295W is the perfect travel companion for getting around town. With a quick tap on an icon or flick of the menu, you can easily look up addresses and services and get voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names to your destination. It comes preloaded with detailed City Navigtor NT street maps for the US and Canada with nearly 6 million points of interest (POIs) such as stores, restaurants, hotels, entertainment venues, gas stations, ATMs and more, and speed limits for the most major roads. cityXplorer maps are also available for your nuvi 295W. cityXplorer maps provide the latest detailed roads and points of interest for metroploitan areas.
Go Beyond Navigation
nuvi 295W isn't just for navigation. A quick tap provides access to the lengthy f
Amazon.com Product Description
nüvi 295W offers a new take on an old favorite with Wi-Fi® connectivity, a 3 MP camera with auto-focus, dual orientation capability and much more.
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Dual-orientation with 1-touch navigation |
Get Connected
Wi-Fi connectivity on the nuvi 295W provides a full desktop web experience with an HTML browser so you can surf the web whenever and wherever you choose. Check your e-mail, including Hotmail, G-mail, AOL mail, POP3 and IMAP, and view email attachments in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and JPG. You can also search an abundance of customer-rated points of interest (POIs), such as restaurants, hotels and more, using Google⢠Local Search.
Get Going
With a single tap on the dual-oriented screen, you can avoid writing down addresses and go straight to your destination. nüvi 295W offers 1-touch navigation from your e-mail, address book (with up to 5,000 contacts) and local search results. Additionally, the unique 3 MP camera geotags pictures so you can create routes to them. You can also send the picture to a friend to route to or upload to the web to auto-locate on a map.
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The slim, sleek design is
ultra-portable
| Get Turn-by-Turn Directions
With an intuitive interface that greets you with simple, familiar icons and a scrollable menu, nüvi 295W is the perfect travel companion for getting around town. With a quick tap on an icon or flick of the menu, you can easily look up addresses and services and get voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names to your destination. It comes preloaded with detailed City Navigator® NT street maps for the U.S. and Canada with nearly 6 million points of interest (POIs) such as stores, restaurants, hotels, entertainment venues, gas stations, ATMs and more, and speed limits for most major roads. cityXplorer maps are also available for your nüvi 295W. cityXplorer⢠maps provide the latest detailed roads and points of interest for metropolitan areas.
Go Beyond Navigation
nüvi 295W isn't just for navigation. A quick tap provides access to the lengthy feature set, including a calculator, stop watch, calendar, check lists and more. Also included are travel tools such as a JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter and current and 5-day weather forecasts. With photo navigation, you can download pictures from Garmin Connect⢠Photos and navigate to them. Garmin Locate⢠automatically marks your position when you remove nüvi from your car so you'll never forget where you parked again, and nüvi 295W is compatible with the free Garmin Garage where you can download custom voices and vehicles. Enhance your travel experience with optional microSD⢠cards.
Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
Amazon.com is happy to offer this item in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging, a recyclable, easy-to-open alternative to traditional packaging. Products in Frustration-Free Packaging are exactly the same--we've just streamlined the packaging. A Frustration-Free Package comes without wire ties, hard plastic "clamshell" casings, and plastic bindings. It's designed to be opened without the use of a box cutter or knife and will protect your product just as well as traditional packaging. This item ships in its own box, without the need for an additional shipping box. Learn more about Frustration-Free Packaging.
What's in the Box
nüvi 295W, preloaded City Navigator® NT for North America, vehicle suction cup mount, vehicle power cable, USB cable, dashboard disc, and quick start manual
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Use on my motorcycle, works with gloves! September 7, 2010
Stephen D. Roper (Colorado)
So after days and days of trying to decide on which one I would get, it came down to this one. My primary use was to find the quickest routes between places in town. I know where I'm going, but I always end up going crazy routes and wasting time.
Like the title says, I use it on my motorcycle. I managed to stick it on the inside of the windscreen just in front of my gauges. As of now, (knock on wood) it hasn't fallen off. The suction cup seems pretty powerful and the GPS actually clips and locks into the cradle, which is also where the power cord goes. That alone makes this awesome. Putting it in and taking it out is no problem because you need not worry about any wires. Plus the place you take it off the mount, it remembers, so if you go into a store and don't remember where you parked, this will direct you back to your ride. Good for us folks with TBI and PTSD.
The screen is plenty bright to use in the daylight. Like I said, mine's on my bike. It is glove friendly and will also work inside a clear plastic pocket on my tank bag with no issues.
Maps are ok. For the most part I have had no problems with them. BUT...if you're military or work on base, the routing system the GPS uses will not take you though the post. Don't get me wrong, it will work on base, it will show the maps, but if you have the option of cutting through base OR having to go 20 miles around it...it will route around every time. Even if you are already on post it will send you to the nearest gate and send you around the outside. I know that it does it because (obviously) not everyone can cut though a military base. It would be a super bonus if you had the option to though.
Garmin Nuvi 295W September 5, 2010
J. Pfeil (Warner Robins, Georgia United States)
Great product. I've had several GPS navigation devices, and this one is one of the better ones I've had. It is small, but loaded with features. It has located every place I've asked it to, and navigated with excellent results. Especially handy is the ability to use Wi-Fi. When arriving in a strange town, it's easy to use the motels Wi-Fi and search Google for places to eat. Also, it's nice to know what the weather outlook is during the stay. Overall, I would recommend this product to anybody who wants an excellent navigation device, with some extras thrown in for good measure.
Great GPS with 2 minor issues August 25, 2010
Timothy W Wales (Greer, SC, US)
The Garmin Nuvi 295W is very compact and routing nearly perfect. Overall the unit performs very well with accurate spoken street names and destinations. Traveled thru SC, NC, TN, KY, GA recently and did not have any issues the instructions and routing was most efficient route to each destination. The WiFi capability is nice for finding local restaurants and stores after locating a wi-fi hotspot. The Micro SD card is great for music, photos and adding your own points of interest. (Note headphones are needed for music). Time to locate satellites and get past warning screens is a little longer than other Garmin models.
Two issues that may be a deal breaker for some: Very small speaker so sound /voice is difficult to hear at highway speeds or with radio on. Lane Assist is not available with this unit and with the small screen it is sometimes difficult to choose correct lane for exits.
Neat little GPS August 22, 2010
JEKirby
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this GPS for three reasons: ability to plan/optimize routes, size and price. I feel I got a pretty good deal. It works as well or better than my Nuvi 350. The voice is a little more mechanical than the Nuvi 350, but it is clear and understandable. I did not get it for its wifi capability, but I noticed I cannot connect to one of networks I routinely use. When connected, it has some cool features and works well. The screen is not so small to be unusable. In fact, turned vertical it is really delivers more usable route information than even a wide screen GPS. The speaker is kind of weak, just like a cell phone on 'speaker phone', so it I use it with an FM modulator in the car. I do use this for a motorcycle, so it plays through an amplifier and helmet speakers and works well. I have a MacBook Pro and use Road Trip. The connectivity to a Mac works well once you download support software/drivers(?) from Garmin. I opted for this GPS over the Nuvi 37xx series as it has a resistive screen and I could use it with gloves. Compared to other GPS's it was a pretty good buy, price compared to features.
Decent buy August 22, 2010
Dan
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm an EMT in a rural area where I haven't lived for very long. I needed something to help me find my way through country backroads fast and efficiently, and this fits the bill for the most part. The main problems I've had are that it can take a while to locate satellites at first if it hasn't been turned on for a while, which in most applications wouldn't be much of a problem, as at most it's a minute and a half. The next is it doesn't turn with you, which can be briefly confusing if you have to take two quick turns, and change a lane in the process (i.e. a right and a quick left, I get stuck in the right lane). Speaker could be a little louder, as well. Then the last is NO FLASH (programming, or photography). Not much of a problem as it's not it's main purpose, but worth mentioning.
The good parts- Re-routes very fast and effectively, it detoured me very well around flooding with minimal input from me. Very fast web connection, decent signal. Touchscreen works flawlessly and inputs quickly. It's sleek, about the same size as an Android, with very intuitive programming. Have not used the camera much, but it's a nice touch, and 2MP is as much as I'd need on a day to day basis.
In short, it's extremely fast except when initially acquiring satellites after being off for a while, has plenty of features, and is very well programmed. It works well for what I need it for and was a great buy for the one day deal I purchased it for. At full price I would have expected a little more, however.
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