Garmin nüvi 1450 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator | 
| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $214.99
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 272
Color: Black/Gray
Media: Electronics
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Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 5
Battery: 1 Lithium-Ion
Size: 5 inch
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 5.5 x 14.3
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MPN: 010-00810-20
Model: 010-00810-20
UPC: 053759099153
EAN: 0053759099153
ASIN: B002RL8H1Y
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| Features:
| • | Large 5-inch touchscreen GPS with a brilliant and bold color display | | • | Advanced navigation features including voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names to your destination | | • | Multiple-point routing, lane assist with junction view, pedestrian routing options and ecoRoute to find the most fuel-efficient route | | • | Compatible with lifetime traffic alerts or MSN Direct (receiver purchase required for either option) | | • | Includes preloaded City Navigaor NT for North America, vehicle power cable, vehicle suction cup mount, USB cable, dashboard disc, and quick start manual |
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Amazon.com Product Description
The ultra-thin nüvi 1450 has a large 5-inch screen and offers multiple-point routing, spoken street names, lane assist with junction view to guide you through busy highway interchanges, pedestrian routing options, and ecoRoute to find the most fuel-efficient route. | 
Junction view guides you to the correct lane for your upcoming turn or exit
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Announces the names of exits and streets so you can keep your eyes on the road
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5-inch widescreen display with vibrant color | See Even More
It's easy to see where you're going on nüvi 1450's 5-inch touchscreen display. View map detail, driving directions, photos and more in bright, brilliant color. With its big, bold display, you won't miss a thing. Know the Lane before It’s Too Late
No more guessing which lane you need to be in to make an upcoming turn. Lane assist with junction view guides you to the correct lane for an approaching turn or exit, making unfamiliar intersections and exits easy to navigate. It realistically displays road signs and junctions on your route along with arrows that indicate the proper lane for navigation. Plan Ahead
nüvi 1450 includes advanced navigation features to take the worry out of traveling. With route planning you can save 10 routes, specify via points and preview simulated turns on the 1450's large screen. In addition, nüvi 1450 automatically sorts multiple destinations to provide an efficient route for errands, deliveries or sales calls. A trip log provides an electronic bread crumb trail of up to 10,000 points, so you can see where you've been on the map.
Get Turn-by-Turn Directions
The intuitive interface greets you with two simple questions: "Where To?" and "View Map." Touch the color screen to 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, nearly 6 million points of interest (POIs), 2-D or 3-D maps and the speed limit for most major roads. Its digital elevation maps show you shaded contours at higher zoom levels, giving you a big picture of the surrounding terrain. With the 1450's enhanced user interface, you can slide your finger to conveniently scroll between screens. You can also upload custom points of interest (POIs). And with HotFix satellite prediction, nüvi calculates your position faster to get you there quicker. Go Beyond Navigation
Navigation is just the beginning. nüvi 1450 saves you gas and money with ecoRoute â a green feature that calculates the most fuel-efficient route, tracks fuel usage and more. The 1450 includes many travel tools including JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. With photo navigation, you can download pictures from Garmin Connect Photos and navigate to them. Take advantage of the nüvi 1450’s traffic compatibility and navigate away from traffic. The nüvi 1450 is compatible with both the GTM 25, FM traffic receiver with lifetime subscription and the GDB 55, MSN Direct receiver (device receiver purchase required for either option). With its "Where Am I?" emergency locator, you always know your location. Simply tap the screen to get your exact latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest address and intersection, and the closest hospitals, police stations and fuel stations. The 1450 features Garmin Lock, an anti-theft feature, and is compatible with our free Garmin Garage where you can download custom voices and vehicles. What’s in the Box
nüvi 1450, preloaded City Navigator NT for North America, vehicle power cable, vehicle suction cup mount, USB cable, dashboard disc, and quick start manual.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 38
 It is just ok July 25, 2010
Frank Hennrick
I recently returned home to Michigan from a trip to Vermont and Maine.
Some of the things i liked about the unit were:
The screen size,good graphics,easy to see.
The lane assist feature worked very well.
It is quite easy to change settings,route options,voices,language,etc.
The major problem that i had was that this unit sent me down dead end roads,four times in ten days of travel.This was maddening,to the point that i do not trust the directions it provides.On major roads it did very well,but when you leave the freeway or toll road,watch out.
The other complaint that i have is the spoken road names for upcoming turns.Very often the announced street name will not coincide with street signs or paper maps.
It will commonly give a name,such as tulip trail or mountain blvd,When the street signs will have state route number,or a county road number.
I would not buy another Garmin,I will take a long look at other options.
 Roads and waypoints disappear too quickly when zooming out! July 22, 2010
bsmeee
I've been a loyal Garmin customer for many years. I upgraded (or thought I was upgrading!) to the 1450 from an old Nuvi 360. When zooming out the road detail and custom waypoints disappear far sooner on the 1450 than on my old 360. On the 360 I can zoom out to see the roads around me and the waypoints remain visible. With the 1450 the smaller roads disappear far too quickly for the unit to be useful! I tried to use the 1450 in Colorado on a Jeep trip. I couldn't zoom out far enough to see the other end of the road I was on or most other roads in the area. Again, I'm comparing this to the 360, I can do these things with the 360 even though it's a much smaller screen! If you are looking for an inexpensive gps receiver it's a great price, just be aware that much of the time it will look like you are traveling through a barren wasteland! I did have the unit set to maximum detail and using it in the "North up" mode that Garmin recommends. Garmin's response was that things change between models and the engineers must have decided to reduce detail sooner when zooming out compared to the 360. They also say the new 3700 series models function the same as the 1450. These changes have Garmin's units pretty much useless for what I need them for (except for my old 360)! If you only use it to punch in an address and go without caring about seeing any detail on the roads around you it may work fine for you!
 Garmin has quality control problems July 20, 2010
daniel spieler
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think that this is a potentially great product but a common problem that Garmin has is problems with their touch screen. My particular one failed fairly quickly after purchase (2 months). In the process of searching for possible fixes for this issue, you see that a large number of Garmin devices have touch screen problems. More generally, I'm not convinced that Garmin is competing on device quality. Rather I think they are competing on features. I think that there is nothing specifically wrong with that, but I'm afraid that Garmin may be providing devices that have a nice feature set but that have very limited lifespan. As a point of reference, it is possible to create products that have reliable touchscreens and I would pay a premium to get one that would continue to function. Either that is not what Garmin wants to do or that is not what the GPS market will support. In either case, pretty disappointing.
outrigger July 18, 2010
Francis M. Reiss (Jacksonville,FL. USA)
used it severl times ,works great screen is larger than the other two gps.s i had ,alot easyer to see when you are busy in heavey traffic you just have to glance at it.that makes it safer,more time for your eyes on the road.garmens are the way to go. had a tom tom that was much harder to use.
 Software upgrades are important July 18, 2010
J. Long
Garmin has had serious software problems that are remedied with their software upgrades. The upgrade is very time consuming (let it run before bedtime as I did and this is not a problem). After the upgrade, the GSP device functions as it should and I believe you will not be plagued with the problems you can read on some reviews.
One BIG tip. Before your vacation take the time to setup every point of destination you will be wanting or possibly wanting to visit. The software Garmin has written will sort those points of interest in order of closest to farthest all the while you are on vacation, so finding a venue is very easy. Do this and you will not spend one minute fiddeling with the software on the Garmin. Just poke your location and the Garmin will take you there. The Garmin was used in Ireland and England for two weeks and did not have a single problem and I was very thankful that these points of interest were already recorded.
If I would rate anything lower than five stars, it would be the pedestrian mode. (Automobile mode is very good) We did not use it too much, but you must continue to shut off the Garmin when you are not looking at the city maps, or you will be left with dead batteries. This is not good unless you can find you way back to the hotel yourself, otherwise you will be 'lost'. We were able to walk Dublin for hours using this method, however the battery was 'going out' as we neared the hotel.
Simply put, don't expect the published 3 hours battery life use unless you don't touch the screen while the garmin is off charge. Sliding the maps around to allow you to look at details of where you are consumes a lot of cpu usage and subsequently a lot power. All together I don't think the Garmin was on for more than 30-45 minutes. That is how much difference it makes. I never just locked the screen and left it on to test the actual battery life. Because public GPS is only accurate to +- 20 feet (combined error of 40 feet) at intersections with many roads coming together you are really forced to zoom in and out to figure out where actually you must go. After walking for 50 feet you will know you turned the wrong way, but it gets frustrating to keep backtracking. And therein lies the problem with locking the screen and following the map.
I believe this problem would be inherent with all GPS devices. Converting Map details into pictures takes a lot of compute power and there is not much that can be done about that.
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