Customer Reviews
New to gps, why not start at the top!
First GPS i have owned Very nice unit, works flawlessly and also simple to operate.Would recommend to anyone who would like to own one. A winner from GARMIN!
More accurate than mapquest
I purchased a Tomtom Go 300 earlier today and had it lead me home. It tried to take me on a "shorter" path home but by avoiding I-5 it added 15 minutes to the trip. 20 seconds after starting my journey it asked me to turn left on to a non-existant street. There was no street anywhere near here either so it wasn't a case of just being off a little. I drove straight and finally ran into a road it recognized and it got me home from there. Overall I was unhappy with the lack of accuracy and choice to avoid the freeway when I was looking for the fastest route.
I returned it an hour later and bought the Garmin 2720. Not only did it take me right back on the freeway and get me home in a hurry I decided to use it to find my girlfriends house. She happens to live in an extremely difficult area to get to. Her address starts with 010 and if you use Mapquest it forces you to truncate the leading 0 which puts you on the right street but on the wrong side of a major parkway which is very time consuming to get around. It gave me the perfect route to get to her taking the exact set of turns INCLUDING a quick right then left that had me get back onto the same street I was on but turning left to cross it and head the opposite direction - the only possible way to reach her. I was ecstatic it didn't try to lead me downtown to make some convoluted turn around. It used my own exact set of turns.
When it indicates your current speed I've found this accurate to less than 1mph of what my speedometer indicates. This makes the estimated time of arrival indicator very accurate.
The POI's are robust and being new to the area I enjoy being able to search for things like restaurants by cuisine and when looking up movie theaters it gives a phone number so I can check the listings on the go.
I found the software on the unit was a little dated however Garmin had a web updater I downloaded that brought me up to the current version with no prompts except a license agreement. The windows software is easy to plot waypoints & routes from home and upload via the USB cable.
It comes with a heavy fabric paperweight I guess you'd call it with a rubberized bottom for setting it on the dash. This made me nervous at first but it actually weighs a couple pounds and is a tacky rubber that should keep it in place during anything but an accident or a U-turn that qualifies as a felony.
All in all I'm very happy with the unit and returning the Tomtom was a good move for me. This thing isn't cheap but Amazon has a great price on it as usual.
I can't believe I waited this long
I've owned the 2720 for about 6 months. Used for one cross country trip and lots of local navigation. Basically it's just fantastic. I take it whenever going to a new location. I occasionally override it's route but not often - and that's easy to do when needed.
It doesn't always pick the fastest route even though I request that. This happens when a high speed limit road has lots of stop lights compared to a slower or longer route with no stop lights. I don't downgrade it much for that - it's never failed to get me there. I don't think any other navigation aid would have maps with lights and programming to know how much time that would add.
It has found new routes to places I've gone to frequently that were better than what I'd chosen using MapQuest or poring over a printed map. And, I'm pretty handy with maps. That really impresses me. That offsets the occasional routes over roads with stop lights.
I was very reluctant to get one initially. Now that I've had it for awhile I can't imagine not having one. Perhaps other models would be OK, but, certainly this 2720 is fantastic.
