Is it because I am a software developer that I am so ready to criticise electronic products? I find it very easy to be critical of this device.
The user interface appears to have been designed by monkeys on LSD.
The sat nav screen has the option of having either a white or black background but no matter which you set, the triangle icon that represents you is the same colour as the background - so you can't see it! If you want to know where you actually are on the map you are going to find it somewhat difficult. That's if you can differentiate your icon from the multitude of other icons scattered over the map.
Then there is this auto zoom feature that supposedly zooms in when you get to intricate parts of the map. The problem is it zooms in to a location that is too far ahead of where you currently are. This means when you are at an intricate part of the map you suddenly disappear! Then when it zooms out it does not go back to the original orientation, instead it appears to go to a default orientation before locating you again. As the refresh rate of the screen is down in the frames per minute scale it has the overall effect of showing what seem to be a random series of images for about 10 seconds before you finally know where you are. And it insists on putting so many overlays on the map that you cannot see the map anyway. And while you are in zoomed in mode it puts a message on the screen saying 'tap to go back'. Did the developers not think their use of the word 'back' in a sat nav application was a little ambiguous? I mean do they mean turn around a ride in the opposite direction or do they mean back to the previous screen? Maybe the manual can answer that question - oh there isn't one.
If you make a wrong turn it seems to decide at random what to do next. Will it a) sound an alarm and tell you you are off course or will it start recalculating or will ask you to make a u-turn. May as well flip a coin because it never seems to do the same thing twice. And when you do go off course you can be sure it is when it is zooming in and out of the map, spinning the screen round 360 degrees and putting obtrusive banners right in the middle so you cannot see where you actually are.
Then there are the maps. The base maps, I am told are useless. They must be pretty bad because I got the map upgrade option and these maps fails to have major roads on them.
And despite the multitude of undocumented configurations, which Einstein forgot to add the auto start recording setting?
Did I mention the documentation? There isn't any except for online manuals which don't actually explain what the different configuration options do. Instead the manuals just tell you to select a given option. Well Mr. Garmin what is the point of having configurations if a) no body knows what they do and b) the manual orders you to pick one and only one of them?
They are also missing a web app to plan routes and upload them to the device. I'm forced to use one of the equally badly conceived free apps that are all deficient in one respect or another.
The user interface appears to have been designed by monkeys on LSD.
The sat nav screen has the option of having either a white or black background but no matter which you set, the triangle icon that represents you is the same colour as the background - so you can't see it! If you want to know where you actually are on the map you are going to find it somewhat difficult. That's if you can differentiate your icon from the multitude of other icons scattered over the map.
Then there is this auto zoom feature that supposedly zooms in when you get to intricate parts of the map. The problem is it zooms in to a location that is too far ahead of where you currently are. This means when you are at an intricate part of the map you suddenly disappear! Then when it zooms out it does not go back to the original orientation, instead it appears to go to a default orientation before locating you again. As the refresh rate of the screen is down in the frames per minute scale it has the overall effect of showing what seem to be a random series of images for about 10 seconds before you finally know where you are. And it insists on putting so many overlays on the map that you cannot see the map anyway. And while you are in zoomed in mode it puts a message on the screen saying 'tap to go back'. Did the developers not think their use of the word 'back' in a sat nav application was a little ambiguous? I mean do they mean turn around a ride in the opposite direction or do they mean back to the previous screen? Maybe the manual can answer that question - oh there isn't one.
If you make a wrong turn it seems to decide at random what to do next. Will it a) sound an alarm and tell you you are off course or will it start recalculating or will ask you to make a u-turn. May as well flip a coin because it never seems to do the same thing twice. And when you do go off course you can be sure it is when it is zooming in and out of the map, spinning the screen round 360 degrees and putting obtrusive banners right in the middle so you cannot see where you actually are.
Then there are the maps. The base maps, I am told are useless. They must be pretty bad because I got the map upgrade option and these maps fails to have major roads on them.
And despite the multitude of undocumented configurations, which Einstein forgot to add the auto start recording setting?
Did I mention the documentation? There isn't any except for online manuals which don't actually explain what the different configuration options do. Instead the manuals just tell you to select a given option. Well Mr. Garmin what is the point of having configurations if a) no body knows what they do and b) the manual orders you to pick one and only one of them?
They are also missing a web app to plan routes and upload them to the device. I'm forced to use one of the equally badly conceived free apps that are all deficient in one respect or another.
