Garmin nüvi 1350/1350T 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic

I have this unit for 10 days now and overall I'm very happy with it. For its main feature, the navigation is excellent. I had a Garmin 350 before which I loved, but my car was stolen. I had a Magellan after he was wrong. The price of this unit was large ($ 247 - Amazon).

I chose the 1390T, I have decided not to have bluetooth. The only difference between the units. I felt the quality of the bluetooth would be poor on the basis of bluetooth other comments, in general, the GPS units. The main reason was the way people use bluetooth. On a typical day I'm in and out of my car often. Whenever I need my Bluetooth immediately if I receive a call. Do not always need the GPS. And from my old unit was stolen and the theft of these units is a big problem everywhere, even hidden drive, or sometimes removed from the car. So if you're like me, but you get the Bluetooth unit has to stop and mount the GPS every time you enter the car if necessary or not, just to be able to blue tooth. If you forget and the phone rings, you do not have bluetooth. So I bought a speaker phone unit separate from Jabra Bluetooth (very good # that is always connected to the visor of very good quality, and always there when I need it. I saved about $ 75 by opting for the 1350T the 1390T.

Some minor disappointments. The Lane Assist feature works well, but is not available everywhere. I used it throughout New York and was very helpful. I drove through Pennsylvania and New York upstate and was not available. Collateral hypes this function, but forget to say this. But when available, is a great feature. This brings me to the circulation. Same story here. I was driving through PA and hit a traffic jam for 1 hour. Without warning, the role of transit was not available in that area. When I arrived at the Scranton PA area, traffic alerts started working. He warned of a major traffic jam ahead and even automatically redirected to my trip. The redirection would have been a significant increase in miles, but worth to avoid the traffic, right? I decided to ignore the new path to the drive just to test to see if the alert was correct and was willing to endure the traffic. As I drove to my original route, no traffic anywhere. Therefore, if I had heard the warning of traffic, have led me to 50 miles out of my way at all. Bottom line is, do not let the traffic feature is a deal breaker for the unit you choose. But again, I have the 1350T in the same price as the Unit # 1350, even without traffic). Updating the map was more difficult than it should have been. I consider myself a very technical with computers and gadgets, but the map update went wrong and took me several attempts. I could see that many people have problems with it if they try to update the map.