Re: Gotta love my nuvi 680 sunrise/sunset calculation!


"Don B" <buroker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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RHinNC wrote:
Garmin figures most idiots don't need that kind of information.

Hey, strike that, I am an idiot who is just not buying the watered down
GPS's of today.

Believe or not that's exactly what a Garmin tech told me about the Nuvi
line, that they were a dumbed down GPS, and that most people that buy them
just want to get from point A to point B.

She was correct.

She went on to say that the SP 2610 didn't sell real well because people
thought it was too complicated to use.

I would have to dis-agree with that. We sold hundreds of the 2610's and
they were not complicated to use if you had a desire to learn it.

I have owned the SPIII, still have a 2610 and a 2820 and except for the
SPIII not having enough memory, have never regretted buying any of them.

For their time the SP3 and the 2610 were excellent units. Of course the
2820 is still a great unit too with newer features. The nuvi's are great too
if you don't need all of the features of the 2820. Wow, I just counted up
today and there are 28 different nuvi units. I personally think that's
ridiculous! 5 or 6 different nuvi's would have been a plenty.
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Darrel Goheen
GPS@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.tvnav.com





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