does it announce street names
762408
Sure, "Turn left onto First avenue in 1/4 mile." If that's what you mean, then yes.
770002
It understands it about 90% of the time. Then there are times you can't get it to understand what you're saying regardless of how you phrase it. I was looking for an address to a hotel, and there was no way for me to get it to understand the street address. I finally had to find another local business, and then I could use the hotels POI and say show me what's near it. It then showed the hotel with the correct address and all.
1402837
Yep, I just replied to your latest comment on your review. Although I find the lack of detailed street names annoying if not ridiculous, I'm not quite to the point to where I would abandon Garmin all together. Quite a few of their units, like my much older Quest, do show street names. By the way, if you want to check out an excellent site for downloading POIs, icons, sounds, etc go to: http://www.poi-factory.com
2133217
When you select "Where To?", it lists several shortcuts, including Address, and you can edit what shortcuts are listed. Prior to selecting the Address shortcut, in the upper right-hand corner, you can select the current city setting and change to another city. In any case, when Address is selected, it does begin with the street number and then street name. As the street name is entered, it updates street names that it knows about across the top which you can select rather than having to fully type the name. I have not yet come across an option to specify a zip code.
1794861
No. I am using an older version of Copilot which is far superior to Streets and Trips. Copilot let's you enter the profile of your vehicle
2272326
It does have traffic updates, but in certain cities. Unfortunately traffic does not work in the City I live in. So that feature is useless to me.
1594213
Yes, it does. In "auto" mode, it would attempt to detect the note name, # or flat, and the number. In "manual" mode, we specify the note name, for example "A", and it would attempt to detect the # or flat, and the number.
1036886
I got it. Thank you very much.BTW, I must say the street names from the computer generated voice is very bad. It seems that there is not enough time for the name of the road is spoken out before the "road", "avenue", etc starting to cutting in.
1074618
Yes it shows the number of the person calling. If that number is in your contacts it will show the name instead. Just for your info, do not put two numbers under that same contact if you want to know which number is calling, because you won't be able to tell. I make a separate contact name for each number.
1364712
It does SHOW the name/number for a call-waiting incoming call. However, the talking caller ID only announces when it's the first call not a call-waiting.
417944
What is "text to speech"? Does either the 250W or 350 announce street names?
2277869
Yes the GPS announce the street names after you update the system by contacting manufacture tech support, they will ask for your unit serial number to verify your purchase, then will send you a microSD card with the TTS voice files, follow the instructions, you copy and paste the files into your GPS microSD card on computer, the TTS Pro function will be enabled, you can select those TTS voice files to read the street names. I recently updated it and now I have some voices which speak the street names, very happy with it.
1807169
No, it will just display what ever you have named your phone. Mine says John's IPhone.
1011269
As you are first entering any street name do not try to enter N, S, E or W nor enter Rd, Ln, or the like. Once you get the address number entered on the following screen the unit will provide you with a list of several different street names for that city with the additional information you did not enter such as the N, S, E, W, Rd, Ln etc., and then you touch the appropriate one/box to select it. The unit then enters the full address. If you try to put in more than the basic street information that is offered as you go along adding letters to the street name, the unit gets confused. Hope that helps in case you have not yet worked with it sufficiently to find out how that works - - -
181106
I read that if you have this problem with no street names spoken, the fix is to do a factory reset on your unit and that will correct this problem. Worth a try!
181109
yes the spoken street names are available only with certain voices - the ones labeled computer
1656251
Yes it does give an address of where it is parked. It Is quite accurate. Lots of nice features.