Garmin nüvi 2250LT 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic

Nice GPS - small display
This is a pretty good GPS for the money. I bought the small screen instead of widescreen because I wanted it to fit in a smaller space. This is fine for the map, but the keyboard is now not a QWERTY keyboard, and a lot fo the commands are harder to access. I'd recomend going widescreen.
Great, small GPS
Was looking for a small-sized GPS. It fits perfectly in the center console of our Prius. Even though we bought the built-in Toyota navigation system, it was a huge ($1100) mistake since you must be totally stopped in order to look up or change anything. Hence, a passenger can't look up a gas station while you're traveling without pulling over and stopping while you do. DO NOT buy a Toyota navigation system until they change this (and improve the overall interface).

As s result, we have had a Garmin in the car as well. Really good.

Very easy to use. This one has a very clean map presentation -- especially after an update to the system software. That update is freely available from their web site and it made a huge improvement.

Thinking about getting another of these for our other car, but might get a wide screen one since it can handle a wider display there.

Get this. You won't regret it.
does what I need, but small screen needs bigger fonts
I bought this because my nuvi 250 had run out of room to receive map updates. I travel a lot for work, often to locations that google or mapquest can't easily find. I needed to be able to update the maps for all of North America and still retain my saved favorites. All the reviews I read pointed me to a larger unit but because I travel with it, I wanted the smallest one possible. Now I see why the larger units are better. They've tried to squeeze more information across the top line of text, but they haven't increased that space or the font at all - if anything, it seems smaller - so it's much harder to see all the information when it's mounted on the dash or windshield. I was really excited when I was able to transfer my saved locations to the new unit and it's working just fine, but the squished up text across the top is a disappointment. I'd be willing to sacrifice a bit of map space in order to READ the text. For the record, my eyesight is just fine.

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