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The Garmin Nuvi 1340 Review

For eco friendly warriors out there, here’s a GPS SatNav device that should make them happy. Not just with eco friendly features, the Garmin Nuvi 1340 is now a bargain at £140. The Garmin has the features that can save you money and petrol fuel to get to wherever you want to be.
It has what Garmin calls the ecoRoute software that determines the most fuel efficient route you can take from point A to B, while tracking fuel usage. That means you can reach your target destination faster and more safely, but also efficiently and doing the environment some good along the way.

Attractive Features

All that eco friendliness is housed on a compact and slim body that’s only 15mm thick, a unique slim form common with the Nuvi 1300 line that’s 25% slimmer than previous Nuvi models and is one of the thinnest and lightest GPS devices out there. It’s very pocket friendly as well for those days when you have to find your way on foot.

You can’t miss its large 4.3 inch touchscreen display that may seem unnecessary in a GPS unless it’s got the multimedia frills. But you benefit from an easy to read display from just about any angle.

As a basic GPS using a high sensitivity GPS hotfix receiver for faster satellite connection, it comes with UK, ROI and Europe maps down to street level. It recommends the fastest and most economical route for you based on postcode, street name or point of interest you enter into it.

In addition, there’s a lane guidance system that tells you which lane to get into when making turns or exiting highways in time for you to get there. It is pedestrian and public transport usable also with its CityXplorer application for those finding their way on foot or using mass transport systems. This added feature can be downloaded from the Garmin website.

The new Garmin carries a unique pan European Cyclops warning system for speed cameras that allow reliable real time alerts on the location of theses cameras along roads and highways. Use these feature to help you drive below speed limits in high risk parts of the road so you arrive safely while avoiding higher insurance premiums and traffic fines. The Cyclops database gets regular daily updates and you can get the service on a free 12 month trial after which will need to get a subscription to download these updates on your handset.

It has a “where am I” function that tells you precisely your location in case you’ve lost your way by just tapping on your displayed car icon on the road. Text to speech is standard and lets you concentrate on your driving than looking at the GPS display every so often. You can also find you way through its Photo navigation feature as it has a million points of interests in its preloaded database. You can also append the POI online from geo tagged images you’ve taken.

What comes With the Package?

The Garmin GPS comes with the standard in car charging apparatus, suction cup for windscreen mount and a dashboard disc. It’s officially marked at £155 but you can get it from retailers online like Pixmania for £139.

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NUVI 1340 Customer review:

Disapointed
Purchased 1340 some 4 weeks ago for trip to France. Worked perfectly. Early camera warnings, acurate speed changes. directions given in clear and precice manner even with a little accent and much more.
The problem is the " MUCH MORE ".
It keeps loosing the satelite connection on an almost regular basis and when it does it restarts itself but only to the startup screen.
It seems to know just when to pick the right time , when your getting into town, or just at a buisey junction, or on the last few turns to your destination.
Previous to this one I had a Garmin 300 which NEVER lost its signal but on the other hand compared to this one was yesterdayd news.
At least it stayed on.
Please,, does anyone know a cure for this apart from the old and trusted " ball and pane " method.

Ray.
Posted on the 20 September 2009 about Garmin NUVI 1340
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