Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #156 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Garmin
• Model: 010-00575-11
• Released on: 2008-09-14
• Dimensions: .76 pounds

Features

• Nuvi 265W comes preloaded with street maps for Europe
• Simply touch the wide colour screen, key in your destination and nuvi takes you there with turn-by-turn spoken directions, announcing the road and place names as you approach for greater on confidence on unfamiliar or busy streets
• The 265W has smooth moving maps and digital elevation detail, showing shaded contours for a better understanding of your surrounding terrain
• In addition, nuvi 265W accepts custom points of interest such as named businesses and traffic blackspots, with proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs as you approach
• With HotFix satellite prediction technology, Garmin calculates your position faster to get you there quicker

Manufacturer's Description
Simple, safe, portable and affordable with optional traffic re-routing, the nüvi 265W is your personal travel assistant for life on the go. This simple, safety-minded navigator leads the way with turn-by-turn directions, lifetime traffic avoidance and a unique, advanced safety camera warning system to get you there on time and keep you safe on the road. Packed with up to millions of points of interest (POIs) and maps for Europe, the 265W is compact, versatile and easy to use.

Simplicity and safety

Nüvi 265W comes preloaded with City Navigator NT map data for Europe. Simply touch the colour screen, key in your destination and nüvi takes you there with turn-by-turn spoken directions, 2-D or 3-D mapping and smooth map updates. Digital elevation maps show shaded contours for an understanding of the surrounding terrain. In addition, nüvi 265W accepts custom points of interest such as traffic blackspots and post offices and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs. With HotFix satellite prediction, Garmin calculates your position faster to get you there quicker.

'Where Am I?' gives you details about your location in a flash. Simply tap the car icon for your exact latitude and longitude coordinates, nearest address, contact details for your vehicle rescue service and directions to the closest hospital, police or petrol station.

Nüvi 265W's advanced Cyclops safety camera database helps you travel with the confidence you are driving safely, responsibly and legally. As you approach one of hundreds of fixed, mobile and temporary safety cameras, variable limit or red light speed cameras across Europe, it gives an audible alert, overspeed warning and speed limit information.

Nüvi 265W also comes with Garmin Lock, an inventive anti-theft protection system that uses GPS to lock to a secure location of your choice.

Enhanced navigation

The nüvi 265W comes with photo navigation to revolutionise your sightseeing. Plan trips to landmarks and attractions simply and easily before you set off. Choose and save location-tagged photographs from millions of Google Panoramio pictures in a wish-list of places to visit. Then, at your leisure, select a photo destination on your Garmin for turn-by-turn directions straight to the scene.

Other built-in travel tools include a JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, a currency and measurement converter, calculator and more.

Customise

Personalise your nüvi 265W with your choice of background photograph. To customise your screen further, select a new vehicle icon from the Garmin Garage. With a wide range of wheels including off-road vehicles, motorbikes and classic cars, you can now tailor your Garmin to suit your style.

Compact, bright navigation

Nüvi 265W has a sleek, slim design to fit comfortably in your pocket or purse. Its rechargeable lithium-ion battery makes it convenient for navigation by car or foot with up to 4 hours' usage between charges.

View map detail, driving directions, photos and more in bright, brilliant colour. The sunlight-readable 4.3"-inch widescreen display is easy to view - from any direction.

Box Contents

Customer Reviews

SEEMS FAULTELSS, AND LOVELY, with one BUT..
ON RECEIPT, ONE SMALL BOX, MINIMAL INSTRUCTIONS, SO A BIT WORRIED AT FIRST, HOW TO GET ALL THOSE FACILITIES CLAIMED IN THE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
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It was actially simple, smooth, and intuitive once you find the help section. After the first set up of locating satellites, which is a little slow, thereafter it is really fast.

It was all ready to go, with battery charged to a low level, so you need to give it a full charge before going too much further. YOu can do this by the included USB computer link, or the in-car charger.

The screen is bright, maps clear , can include incredible detail if select "more" for detail. Or you can have as little as you like. I really like the neatness of the machine, simple layout of icons, clarity of the map, the details and gave it a try on a local journey. (I do not like suction mounts, but if you use them it looks a very neat one, I did not try it.) The spoken instructions are very clear and completely accurate-issofar as I've tried it- down to the distance before turns, and include road names. I personally would find this a huge help, especially in my work as often have to drive at night.

Sadly, there is one "but.." I discovered as I was reading the HELP section in more detail, trying to find out how to use the "smart traffic avoidance" as quoted in the product description, and "for life", that it is not inbuilt as implied.
This was really one of the important reasons for my choice of this machine. This does not appear to exist, with this machine, so I feel very let down. Because there is so little documentation, you don't know this until you get to this stage.

It has a LOT going for it, and -unless I can find a simple way of subscribing to a traffic subscription with minimal expense, it is going back. If traffic is important to you, I would say it is more worthwhile to go for the garmin nuvi 256WT, which I found out (subsequently unfortunately) includes all of the above, and a bit more, PLUS a lifetime traffic subscription.

very good and very simple to use
I work on field and i had been given a new area to work at. I decided i needed a sat nav as now i have no pateince with a to z's. did extensive research and decided NOt to get a tom tom as its far too common and i wasnt getting much for my money. So, i settled for this. well what can i say, its probably the best gadget i have ever bought. very simple to use, u dont even need a manual. the bluetooth is not great if u want to connect ur mobile to it, but it only takes a millionth of a second to track satellites and tell me of my route. recalculating route is just as fast! for me its God sent, flawless. Points of interest is very accurate, and the lady who talks is not annoying and very clear in what she is saying. its battery life is very good. and up until now, the sat nav has not taken me into a river or over a hill ! i would highyl recommend it. Also AMazon prime got me this within one day - first unit seemed like a custonmer return and i so i returned it back and amazon got me the replacement unit within 18 hours! great. also DO not order additional cables... the box comes with one.

Big improvement on earlier Garmins
I got this as a birthday present for my Dad and he has been very impressed. I have an older Nuvi 250 which is good, but having used this one I can really appreciate the improvements/extra features. It has widescreen and bluetooth capability and a constant reminder of the max speed for the road you are currently on.

Well worth the extra few quid - and it's got Europe maps too. Oh, and the verbal directions are more precise..."turn right at the roundabout on to the High street" whereas mine just says "take the 3rd exit". The case for it is good too, and not very dear.