Garmin 010-N2153-00 Drivesmart 65 Premium Navigator With Amazon Alexa - (Renewed)

Garmin 010-N2153-00 DriveSmart 65 Premium Navigator with Amazon Alexa - (Renewed)

• This Certified Refurbished product is refurbished to factory specifications, it shows limited or no wear
• Includes all original accessories plus a 90 Day Warranty
• Garmin DriveSmart 65 Premium Navigator with Amazon Alexa
• Premium GPS navigator with a 6.95\" high-resolution display | Built in WiFi | Use Alexa to create to-do lists, news, weather,traffic, and control smart home devices
• INCLUDED IN THE BOX: Garmin DriveSmart 65 with Amazon Alexa | Vehicle suction cup mount | Traffic receiver/vehicle | Power Cable | USB Cable | Authorized 90 Day Refurbished Warranty

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Brand : Amazon Renewed
Category : Electronics,GPS, Finders & Accessories,Sports & Handheld GPS,Handheld GPS Units
Rating : 4.4
ListPrice : US $199.99
Price : US $159.99
Review Count : 222

Garmin 010-N2153-00 DriveSmart 65 Premium Navigator with Amazon Alexa - (Renewed)

• I like it when a company adds value to each iteration. I own 3 Drivesmart 65s from different years. This one is superior for voice pick-up and the nuances of connecting to my mobile device via Foursquare and Alexa etc. A Garmin Device, no matter how progressive you think you are with your iOS (I am a geek with every OS imaginable), is superior for driving and GPS precision. I love the 3D mapping style and the variety of thoughtful features that come with a stand-alone GPS. Garmin is the best in this space. I use Garmin in conjunction with Waze on my phone and Carplay etc. Those satisfied with iOS Maps will likely avoid the extra cost. For me, however, the feature-rich Garmin 65 is tops in the GPS space.
• The Good: *The display is large, and sharp. * Lane guidance is as good as I\'ve seen. * Route deviations due to construction seem to be updated quickly (as far as my limited testing can tell). *SW can be updated over wifi, you don\'t have to hook up to a computer. *In route changes due to blocked traffic (accidents) is good and it\'s fast. *The manual is built into the software. It\'s kind of unhandy to read it while you are driving. You wouldn\'t do anything like that, would you? Please say \"no\". *You know, features that are just handy for a GPS to have.The Bad: *I can\'t get a constant volume from the device. Sometimes it\'s loud and unmistakable , other times you barely get a whisper. The volume also changes during the trip. You can verbally ask for a volume change, it seems to help but not much. This may or may not be an operator (me) error. *I don\'t know why GPS manufacturers keep throwing suction cup mounts in the box. I have not had a car in over 25 years that would take a suction cup on the dash, and states are starting to make windshield mounts illegal. Who knew you\'d need to see through the windshield to drive. How do you know which states don\'t like windshield mounts? Don\'t worry, the nice officer will stop you and explain if it\'s an issue. There are after market mounts available, some inexpensive and some not so inexpensive. *This thing is large enough that you might have a problem finding a good spot for it, depending on the layout of your car interior. Cut out a piece of paper or cardboard the same size as the screen and use that to be sure this thing will fit nicely in your car.The eh---: You can connect this to Alexa, for instance on your Android smart phone. or maybe your tower computer if you are looking for something idiotic to do. I have not discovered the real utility in the Alexa connection, it seems to duplicate functions already on the GPS (make calls, listen to music---) on the other hand I\'ve only had this GPS for a couple of weeks, so there is probably much more to learn. I doubt that the Alexa connection was done just to be cute, it probably has a purpose that I have not found yet. * I don\'t think the entering of routes and stops on the route is particularly intuitive. I did do that for a two hour trip with 5 stops along the way. It worked fine once I got it all entered, but it was a hassle to get the entry done. I now put in addresses and save them ahead of time so I can select them as I go rather than trying to enter everything in one swell foop before the start of a trip. That method may be more useful for short attention span people like me, you never know when you might need to divert to see the worlds largest potato chip that looks exactly like President Millard Fillmore\'s pet buffalo.This review is written after about two weeks of use, sometimes under stress (gotta get to the ER, new construction, new tiny back roads---so once I have used the GPS for a month or longer I\'ll probably wise up a bit and figure out that the stuff that seems not so obvious is actually not so bad.I\'d buy this again, or recommend it to a friend. It has lots of nice features, the display is great, and if you have the ability to read instructions I think you will like it.
• Good value for money, nice to have Alexa included, good features, gas prices... I love it.
• Love Alexa with Garmin. Easy interfacing and voice Reignition better than ever!!!
• I tried to avoid this review but now I can no longer do so. Why you ask? Because I\'ve only used this device for about 5 trips total and on each trip it\'s made one or more major blunders!I installed Alexa on my iPhone that is tethered to this Garmin Navigator and for some reason I can no long say, \"Garmin, go to address A\" instead I must say, \"Alexa, go to address A\". Yeah, yeah, it\'s not a big deal unless you don\'t know, and why would I when the instructions say otherwise and I had personally had it work in the past when I said \"Garmin\" instead of \"Alexa\"?Anyway, so I say Alexa now & know I should. Not a big deal. But the navigation has made a least 1 major blunder per trip. Today it made 2 major blunders: In Bellbrook, Ohio it send my driving the opposite direction I should of went and then, only after I\'m driving the wrong way and it\'s trying to navigate me home and calculates I\'m driving the wrong way, it recalculates directions and then has my new directions to correct it\'s earlier mistake.Then when I\'m almost home it somehow tells me to turn left on a street that the street I\'m on does not intersect on. It completely left out the needed right turn on the street between the street I\'m currently on and the street it told me to turn left on.Those are pretty horrendously bad pair of mistakes and this device makes such mistakes pretty regularly.The maps, and embellishments, like pictures and special instructions which lanes to be in on those horrible 12 lane interstates and such are nice.I really like the device and hope they fix the navigation. The crux of the navigation problem seems to be the device is tracing the streets to find the route and in doing so looses correct account of the streets it\'s traced to create the route it\'s trying to wrongly tell you.Another horrible thing this device does is you ask for directions are of a Walmart parking lot, mall parking lot, and so it, it chokes and often tells you to turn the wrong way once you actually get out of the parking lot and hold onto your hats: it leaves out the instructions on how to get out of the parking lot! Not good. It it can\'t tell you how to get out of a parking lot it can\'t reliably tell you which way to go once you are on your way out of the parking lot.Garmin needs to go back to the drawing board on this one. How many decades have they been in the navigation business? Really? Who\'s designing for them now? Who is coding for them now? Designing hardware for them? QAing for them?Hello Garmin?! I anxiously await firmware & software updates for this nearly $300 MSRP device so that it helps my avoid navigation trouble and doesn\'t put me in big navigation trouble!
• Good value and unit looked new. Love I can use aux cable or Bluetooth to play thru car speakers.
• Great unit at the price could ask for anything better.

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