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Garmin Nuvi 255WT - European Mapping, Widescreen, Built-in Traffic | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
Buy New: £164.99
New (5) from £164.99
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 158
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 6.5 x 3.3
MPN: 010-00718-12
Model: 010-00718-12
UPC: 753759078898
EAN: 0753759078898
ASIN: B00151USJG
Release Date: May 16, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | General: Width - 12.2 cm / Depth - 2 cm / Height - 7.4 cm / Weight - 147 g, GPS System: Recommended Use - Automotive / Connectivity - USB / Voice - Navigation instructions, street name announcement, voice recognition / Aerial - Built-in / Features - Built-in speaker, calculator, clock, 2D / 3D map perspective, Garmin Lock, photo viewer, custom points of interest / Software Included - MapSource City Navigator Europe NT | | • | Navigation: Waypoints - 1,000 / Trip Computer - Avoid motorways, trip timer, trip distance, avoid toll roads | | • | Built-in Display: Type - TFT / Resolution - 480 x 272 / Diagonal Size - 4.3" / Display Illumination - Yes / Colour Support - Colour / Features - Touch screen, anti-glare, Connections: Connector Type - USB, Slot Provided: Slot Provided - SD Memory Card | | • | Battery: Battery Enclosure Type - Internal / Technology - Lithium-ion battery / Run Time (Up To) - 4 hours | | • | Miscellaneous: Included Accessories - Power cable, vehicle mount |
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Product Description
The Nuevi 255WT from Garmin is your personal travel assistant for life on the go. The Nuevi 255WT leads the way with a large 4.3? wide screen and a full set of maps for 33 different European countries, getting you to your destination on time and safely. The Nuevi 255WT comes preloaded with a host of points of interest, allowing you to travel in the best of conditions and stop off during your journey for a spot of sightseeing. You?ll be able to plan trips to landmarks and attractions easily before you set off, and, at your leisure, look up the contact details for your vehicle rescue service and directions to the closest hospital, police or petrol station. Its longlife battery lasts nearly 4 hours before you have to recharge it through your cigar lighter port, meaning you'll never be left in the lurch if you get lost. The Nuvi 255 WT?s other built-in travel tools include a JPEG picture viewer, a world travel clock with time zones, a currency and measurement converter, a calculator and more. Enhance your travel experience with the Nuevi 255WT from Garmin!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Saved all the arguments !!!!!!!!! August 17, 2008
Old Head (Derbyshire. England)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Bought the Nuvi 255WT just before driving to Italy this year and found it worked superbly. Did over 2500 miles without a hitch and saved any problems that I cause for my wife who is the usual map reader/route planner. Didn't need all the extras such as playing through car radio and connecting to phone so went for this as a good saving on Tom Tom. The traffic cameras and holdups info. worked equally well in Europe and the mapping there isn't just major roads. I can highly recommend it.
Excellent product August 4, 2008
JSB (Somerset)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I bought this as my first navigation device based on the reviews given here and I am very pleased to say it is superb. It does exactly what you would expect. Neat, easy to view, easy to use, reliable, sturdy - I cannot praise it enough. It is better than the Tom-toms (which seem very good in themselves)I have seen friends use and they too are impressed with my new toy! Took it for a real try out in the middle of Bristol with all the road works etc going on. Only confused me once but it immediately corrected my route so no worries. Can't speak more highly for it. Brilliant.
Garmin 255WT review July 28, 2008
Sam Starr (UK)
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
Garmin Nuvi 255WT - European Mapping, Widescreen, Built-in Traffic
Spent quite a bit of time reading reviews, looking at actual units and comparing similar products.
The 255WT does everything I wanted, was a great price and is a doddle to use. For anyone that wants a well designed unit you can use on and off the car, with W Europe maps and FM travel data this is an excellent buy.
I love the screen, the size of the unit and it was very easy to get going with out of the box.
 Excellent value for money, and very simple to use. July 27, 2008
Johnny (West Yorkshire, UK)
55 out of 55 found this review helpful
I bought the Garmin Nuvi 255T about two weeks ago now, and have used it to do quite a lot of long travelling in England. I chose it over a TomTom because for the same functions, it was almost a 100 cheaper, and it looked better too...
My first impressions were very positive. It looks very simple, and is easy to use. I was happy to see that you could change the mapping options, from the perspective view, to a view from above, where the map moves under the car, and another view from above where the car moves on the map (which is aligned north), which is my own setting.
Second to this the voice commands are clear, and the display is excellent, even in extremely bright weather. The night mode inverts the map, so that it doesn't glare, and this turns on automatically.
However, there are a few points I wasn't too happy about. A few times now, it has told me to turn when the road turns that way anyway, so I'm not actually turning off the road. This I found annoying, and I found the time estimations to be off, on a long journey, with no holdups worth mentioning, it was short by about 15%. The searches for amenities, or `points of interest' can be a bit hit and miss, but when you use the map, especially when out of your car in `pedestrian' mode, to find local things it is very helpful, and impressive in the scale of the coverage.
The speed camera detection is brilliant and has worked every time! The traffic detection works as well, (which has an ariel in the rather bulky car power lead), and the mapping is excellent, picking up one way systems with no problem.
I heavily recommend this sat nav.
255WT July 25, 2008
James Stuart
45 out of 46 found this review helpful
For nearly three years I have been using a Blaupunkt Lucca Sat Nav, which has done what's asked of it, albeit having a tendency to take the longest routes possible even if you tell it otherwise. It's now getting dated and the battery does not hold a charge for long, so time for a change. I considered the TomTom but was not keen on the map graphics, looked at the Navman but was put of by the cheap heavy looking design and some poor reviews. My Dad (a complete technophobe) recommended a Garmin nuvi having bought one last year, so I looked at the options, eventually going for the 255WT as I liked the idea of European Coverage, Traffic and `Revenue' Camera warnings, plus the `were am I function', although on trying it at home it told me the nearest police station was not the actual 4 miles away but 41.5miles away in the next county, not perfect then. Not had the unit long enough to properly test the Traffic or Camera locator but so far so good, its well made, compact, has great map graphics and the 3D mode compresses some distance ahead onto the screen which is a great help for forward planning. It starts up and locates a link in a blink of an eye, even in some parts of the house, which after the Lucca which takes 3 minutes just to wake up is fantastic. The only other negative; the brief instructions, for example included it the box is an aerial which can only be part of the Traffic system as it plugs into the 'traffic block' in the power lead, but its not mentioned in the handbook, so still trying to work out its exact purpose as Traffic appears to work without it.
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