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The big screen nüvi 1490LMT comes with free Lifetime Maps and Traffic and offers multiple point routing and Lane help with connection view to assist you manage busy highway interchanges. It states streets by name, has hands free calling compatibility and pedestrian navigation alternatives. The ecoRoute feature calculates a more fuel efficient path. It is easy to see where you are going on nüvi 1490LMT’s 5 inch touchscreen display. Traffic info is updated constantly, and map updates are available up to four times a year, with no subscription, fees, or expiration dates. Travel tools include JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. Lane help with connection view guides you to the correct lane for an approaching turn or exit. Extra Wide, Feature Rich GPS Navigator Lifetime Maps and Traffic
Includes Free Lifetime Map Updates
With free Lifetime Map and Traffic updates, you generally have the most up to date maps, points of interest and navigation info available at your fingertips. Traffic info is updated constantly, and map updates are available for download up to four times a year. Both features are prepared to go, right out of the box, with no subscription or update fees and no expiration dates. See More
It is easy to see where you are going on nüvi 1490LMT’s 5 inch (12.7 cm) touchscreen display. View map detail, driving directions, photos and more in bright, smart color. With its big, bold display, you will not miss a thing. Know the Lane Before it is Too Late
No more guessing which lane you have to be in to make an forthcoming turn. Lane help with connection view guides you to the correct lane for an approaching turn or exit, making unfamiliar intersections and exits easy to navigate. It realistically displays road signs and connections on your path with arrows that point to the correct lane for navigation. Lane help with connection view is available in choose metropolitan cities. Navigate City Transit
With its improved pedestrian navigation potential, nüvi 1490LMT is the ideal travel friend for to get around town. Download optional cityXplorer content to assist you navigate city public transit. Know where to walk, where to catch the bus, subway, tram or another transportation and how long it’ll take to get there. CityXplorer maps are available for choose cities during North America and Europe. And with prices as low as $9.99, you will have money left over to use up in the big city. Plan Ahead
Nüvi 1490LMT will include advanced navigation features to take the worry out of traveling. With path planning you may be able to save ten routes, identify via points and preview simulated turns on the 1490LMT’s big screen. Also, nüvi 1490LMT automatically kinds many places to offer an economical path for errands, deliveries or sales calls. A trip log gives an electronic bread crumb trail of up to 10,000 points, so you may be able to see where you have been on the map. Get Turn by Turn Directions
Nüvi 1490LMT’s intuitive interface greets you with two simple questions: “Where To?” and “View Map.” Touch the color screen to easily look up addresses and services and get voice prompted, turn by turn directions that speak street names to your destination. It comes preloaded with in depth City Navigator NT street maps, almost six million points of interest (POIs), 2 D or 3 D maps and the speed bound for most big roads in the U.S. And Europe. Its digital elevation maps show you shaded contours at higher zoom levels, giving you a big picture of the bordering terrain. With the 1490LMT’s improved user interface, you may be able to slide your finger to conveniently scroll between screens. You also can upload custom points of interest (POIs). And with HotFix satellite prediction, nüvi calculates your position faster to get you there quicker. Make Hands free Calls
For hands free calling, nüvi 1490LMT integrates Bluetooth wireless technology with a fitted microphone and speaker. Just pair it with your matched Bluetooth phone and talk hands free through the 1490LMT while staying focused on the road. Simply dial numbers with nüvi’s touchscreen keypad to make a call. To answer calls, just tap the screen and speak into its fitted microphone. Enjoy convenient one touch dialing for contacts and points of interest. Go Beyond Navigation
Navigation is just the beginning. Nüvi 1490LMT saves you gas and money with ecoRoute a green feature that calculates the most fuel efficient path, tracks fuel handling and more. The 1490LMT will include many travel tools, as well as JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. With photo navigation, you may be able to download pictures from Garmin Connect Photos and navigate to them. With its “Where Am I?” emergency locator, you generally know your place. Simply tap the screen to get your exact latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest address and intersection, and the closest hospitals, police stations and fuel stations. The 1490LMT features Garmin Lock, an anti theft feature, and is matched with our free Garmin Garage where you may be able to download custom voices and vehicles. Improve your travel experience with optional plug in microSD cards. What is in the Box nüvi 1490; Preloaded City Navigator NT North America (U.S, Canada and Mexico); Lifetime Maps and Traffic; FM Traffic Receiver With car Power Cable; car Suction Cup Mount; USB Cable; Dashboard Disc; fast Start Manual

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4.0 out of five stars Great Screen Great Fratures many Quirks, December 4, 2010
By C. James See all my reviews
(REAL NAME) () This review is from: Garmin nvi 1490LMT 5 Inch Bluetooth movable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Map & Traffic Updates (Electronics) Having been a Garmin owner for about five years I had no doubt what brand I goed to purchase, my old Garmin served me well but it was time for a new one and the large screen was a key feature I wanted in my new one.

The screen is remarkable, while going from 4.3″ to 5″ doesn’t sound like much it’s really amazing how more map and info that fits well on the screen. The screen itself is anti glare that works, and bright if you want it, I have the light at 60 and that’s good in bright sunlight. The pictures are crisp and clear, street names and such are auto sized to not obstruct the map but large enough to read easily. The volume when it’s reading out direction is remaining, so deafening I have it also on 60. So a hard five Stars on the screen and voice volume, also as the articulation of the street names!

Quirk: When I 1st got it I was in my office and opened it, plugged it in to just power and fired it up, it kept asking for me to agree to the license terms and no matter how I answered it rebooted itself, did this like four times , then was ok. This could happen every time I turned it on. Not a big issue really, once it “sees” the sats it stops doing it and is good. Little off for the scare factor, it never done it again.

The update procedure is easy but long, probably long on a slower PC or slow internet connection, the map data is big. That said it’s the nature of the beast and Garmin makes it as painless as possible, the registration and update procedure was slick.

Once all updated and prepared to go it’s time to go through the alternatives, you do not have to, out of the box it picks everything, but I think most will find it worth it, there are many of alternatives on how you want it to find routes, deal with traffic (comes with lifetime traffic info), how you want the maps to look in many parts, 2D, 3D, Track top to your direction or top to generally north, and all types of extra info that can optionally be on the map screen. Out of the box Garmin has every bell and whistle turned on which I guess I understand but this is why I say it’s worth to get it where you like. From the factory you’ll only see 4.3″ of map on path as it has four tabs of optional info along the right side. I wanted 5″ of map so I disabled the side tabs in settings, nice choice, you may also pick what tab is showing what info from a good selection of alternatives.

Quirk: If you’re using the traffic info and have the traffic avoidance enabled you may be able to get many really odd routes, since I was just trying mine out around town and to work and back I knew it telled me wrong turns, a little time in the manual and I learned why, it was automatically changing the path around traffic alerts, while this may sound like a good thing and could be if it told you it doed that, in my case it wasn’t, no other path is going to help and I didn’t know what in it doed I found you may be able to have the best of both worlds, keep trafic info turned on but disable traffic in the avoidances setting tab. Then it warns you of traffic on your path, allows you to see where, and gives you a detour choice at that point you may be able to take or ignore. It could be better throughout the path calc procedure if it said it had added detours, and when it does it on the fly it should as well, minor quirk once you know. This is a three star feature in the auto mode. Five star could be to tell you and offer y/n detour alternatives for each point.

Junction View to me was one of the most remarkable features, I go through one complex set of interchanges for three freeways with express lanes to bybass interchanges and local lane to pick up any direction to or from any free way, many a people have left on the wrong path. When I aproached it the garmin flipped to connection view and wow, it had a obviously marked path through the maze, and nailed every lane on the money, and the optimum lane for the follwing turn if there was more than one lane leading into it. Nice! Another five star feature, this could have made my 1st time through that a lost safer than the old garmin with just a yellow line through it.

The routes it comes up with are 4.5 star, it hits most very well but will toss some more odd ones out than my old Garmin did, they all do many, I think this could do better, the good news is these aren’t awful routes, just not the better or best generally.

The next four star item is the power cord/FM Traffic radio, it’s like having jumper cables going up your dash, why it isn’t in the unit is beyond me, I’m stumped so far as to how to path the cables many more cleaner than this and have traffic information.

Another choice is to skip the traffic radio and run on battery, with the right settings you may be able to get three hours, but with my settings I can get just over two hours on battery before the warning. The last power choice is just power, that’s an optional cord you must purchase that’s many less bulky than the powered traffic cord. So battery life and traffic radio/power cord is three star.

Bluetooth phone paring was easy and works great, the sound cancelling is pretty good also on its mic, so your caller can hear you and not road sound. Five Star

Another nice feature is the speed bound that shows up in a little speed bound sign icon by your real speed, if you’re going over the bound for the road, the real speed turns red in the display. (I won’t say how I know but it’s a relaible source!) five Star, speed bound signs on many of our local town roads is a problem.

I was impressed that I could pick maximum map detail and it keeps up in the city, throughout fast turns in high street density it’ll occaisionally repaint the screen instead of smooth scrolling with your motion but it does it so fast, unlike my previous Garmin, they it isn’t diverting or leave you hanging with a fractional map. This is five star all the way.

Overall I have to say I’m happy with the Garmin 1490LMT, I couldn’t give it a full five for the things it fell just a little short on to me, but if I was to make the choice on a model again with what I know, I could purchase it again, I think it could be hard to defeat.Garmin nüvi 1490LMT 5 Inch Bluetooth movable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Map Updates and Traffic

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127 of 135 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of five stars My Garmin nüvi 1490LMT 5 Inch Bluetooth movable GPS Navigator, October 14, 2010
By Banjo46 See all my reviews () This review is from: Garmin nvi 1490LMT 5 Inch Bluetooth movable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Map & Traffic Updates (Electronics) I now began using my Garmin nüvi 1490LMT 5 Inch Bluetooth movable GPS Navigator. I planned some number of trips, researched many things as to places for my forthcoming trip. Throughout the trip I searched for my nearest Starbucks coffee houses, rest regions and restaurants. I found this little device to be invaluable, for my Spouse also (who, not being a computer person. Now began using it). I’m addicted.I love it. Can not wait to start planning the next trip. I did have two cases of misdirection to regions that weren’t as requested.(1)a Starbucks (was not where I has been directed.I accredited this one to the fact that Starbucks had closed many of its stores in recent months)(2)a restaurant wasn’t where I has been directed. I believe Streets / Lanes / Avenues and Ways played a big part in this misdirection. I love my Garmin nüvi 1490LMT 5 Inch Bluetooth movable GPS Navigator.
One last item. My car comes with OnStar and the 1st cell phone to be turned on in the car is typically the 1st to be picked up by the OnStar Bluetooth phone system (it only handles one at a time).. The Garmin nüvi 1490LMT 5 Inch Bluetooth movable GPS Navigator will pick up a second Bluetooth cell phone and is deafening and clear. Thanks Garmin.

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70 of 73 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of five stars Worth It, November 24, 2010
By Diane Harrison (CHATTANOOGA, TN, US) See all my reviews () This review is from: Garmin nvi 1490LMT 5 Inch Bluetooth movable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Map & Traffic Updates (Electronics) So you may pay a bit more for the life time maps, but it;s worth it! Worked great out of the box. Be prepared, it took four hrs to upload the new maps, but hoping next update does not take that long. Its easy to work and fast to react. One of the best buys I have made newly. My sister has the 13?? Garmin with the 4.7 screen. The five screen does make a difference and now she wishes she had gotten the one I have. Pay a bit more for a bigger screen, you will be amazed at the difference!

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