Garmin 550 Review

February 17, 2009

Garmin 550 - Easy to operate GPS

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By  HRM “Traveller” 

I am not one with a lot of patience for going through users’ manuals. This GPS does not need one. I found this very easy to operate and quite accurate. As with all GPS, it does not always take you exactly the way you want to go (I test my “shortcuts” at home), but it seems to work just fine adjusting quickly.
When you are on dirt roads it considers you “off road” at times and does not show the road, only the location in white space. But you can broaden the view and find paved roads.
The restaurant seeker is pretty good. We even found a “long lost” restaurant, the name and location of which we had forgotten.
It would be nice, if the added software for other regions were not as expensive. Check exactly what you need and want. There are so many different models, each of which does something slightly different.

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Garmin 550 - Exactly what I was looking for

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By N. Joyce

I live in Manhattan and don’t own a car, but I rent cars often and use Zip Car. I wanted a GPS for those trips, but I also wanted one that I could mount on my road bike for our weekend excursions. After some research, I figured this was the best for combined purposes. There are better purely-driving GPS and purely-cycling ones, but if you want one device for both, this seems to be the best it gets.

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