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(More customer reviews)It's really frustating when the new and improved version of a product is a less satisfying execution. I have a Garmin 255WT and saw the 1300LMT advertised as basically the replacement for it with free lifetime map upgrades (although I'll bet that in a couple of years, they'll find some excuse to not be able to upgrade the maps and we'll have to buy another unit). To be fair, this unit maintains the ease of use and efficiency of the older unit. It doesn't fail to efficiently get you where you need to be with intuitive and clean interface screens. It is much more intuitive and has clearer interfaces than its Magellan counterpart, which I also tried and ran next to this.
The frustrating part is that Garmin has made a bunch of small trade-offs that are lesser examples of its predecessor. Examples are: the formerly all black case now has a bright aluminum bezel that reflects sunlight into your eyes; the human sounding female voice is replaced by a less human sounding, more garbled voice; the standard 3d screens have speed and arrival time fields that are unnecessarily larger - the numbers are the same size, but the larger surrounding borders hide a greater amount of map information; the speed limit information has been ommitted - perhaps because of liability issues, the old 255WT was wrong about 10% of the time; the crisp graphics are replaced with more stylized perspective pictures - I guess to look newer, but they are less precise and .. sloppy looking; the trip computer now has a stupidly large round circle that does nothing but show the speed -at the expense of being able to display other trip data - which now has to be scrolled into view; the trip data has eliminated tenths of a mile, why??!!, it can no longer be used for precise distance measurement. I ended up returning the unit because I just couldn't justify buying something that was worse in so many ways than I already had. I vainly hope that this commentary may somehow encourage others to also refuse to support Garmin's degradation of their products.
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