+ Lifelong map update 4 times a year (with limitations that are listed in the license terms), which has even error-free already working times (13 hours downloads DSL 1000)
+ Lifelong Verkehrsfunkabo Navteq (formerly TMC)
+ Easy operation
+ The representation of roads is solved well in every zoom level
+ Easy way your own POIs (POI's) to store
+ Advanced redirection feature (forwarding length can be specified)
+ Road closures / areas may be excluded from the route calculation, the input data is at nüvi possible
+ Directions
+ Good GPS reception
+ Displaying speed limits can be corrected in the device
+ Junction view / Abiegehinweise
+ Custom Menu
Now for the neutral I rated properties:
* TTS - Voices (voice announcement of street names) are not always easy to understand
* The built-in loudspeaker is overwhelmed from 80% volume
* Voice control is so nice, but in an older diesel only to 70 km / h without radio and yell with the nüvi functional
* Occasional system crashes (previously 2)
* The Traffic Information mode is depending on the vehicle (especially when heated windshields) only moderately well
what did not work and is not compatible with class:
(If one takes not only to drive a GPS, but also as a source of information on travel, as a digital road map, etc.)
- It is, no matter the zoom level, the map displayed none of the 2.5 million POIs of Navtec cards
- The display of place names in the 2D map is from the 1.2 km zoom level more than strange. There are cities hardly appears but only small villages, so that you can be guided into the card only to the streets
- The overview map on the traffic situation are useless, a traffic jam on a highway shown in orange is displayed in red and is therefore not visible
- Many minor errors, such as display of the scale under the back button, zoom error when changing map views, errors in the Basemap
- Key volume and announcements not separately regulated
- Sometimes quite slow map drawing when zooming
- Navi and TMC receivers with "Power cables" powered, which should be solved more elegant
- Adding Points to the Current Route leads to overloading of the processor, so it takes a long time until a preview is shown
- Find the function targets along the current route does not work with their own points of interest (POI's)
- Compared to older nüvis entering destinations has become more cumbersome
Conclusion: If the Garmin not place names had spared such basic functions such as display of POI's and display, I would rate the Nuvi 2460 LMT with 5 stars. But as it turns to earlier models of the nüvi - series in material respects a negative improvement is that has nothing to do with class. As the owner of one can only hope that future firmware updates clean up here a lot.
