Garmin StreetPilot 2820 Car GPS Receiver

The purpose of this review is to provide you with a bird's eye view of this GPS unit to provide you with all that you need to know before buying this unit without going into too much detail.

Pros:

1. Provides verbal navigation instructions
2. WAAS enabled
3. Waterproof
4. Integrates wireless technology with a microphone and speaker that lets you make hands-free calls on a compatible bluetooth phone.
5. Points of Interest (POI) database: to help find areas of interest searchable by hotels, restaurants, stores, and attractions.
6. Touch Screen
7. Remote control
8. 2D or 3D map perspective combined with the ability to arrange destinations to minimize trip distance make navigation easy.
9. Optional traffic receiver: notifies you of accidents, road construction, and weather-related traffic delays before they are encountered, and then offers an alternate route.
10. MP3 player that allows you to browse music by artist, album, or song
XM radio with subscription

Cons:

1. Does not have SD memory slot. Only comes with internal memory
2. Traffic alerts need to be improved and accurate.

Horizontal Comparision:

1. Does not have integrated FM wireless transmitter, StreetPilot 2730 & 7200 do.
2. Is FMC TMC traffic compatible, StreetPilot 2730 is not.
3. Pre-programmed media that stores City Navigator detailed maps of North America. StreetPilot 7200 has it available for Europe as well
4. Display size is 1.7 x 3.3 which is smaller but lighter than 7200 with a display size of 3.43 x 6.10
5. Does not have Audio/video input, 7200 does.
6. Has everything else same as StreetPilot 2730 & 7200 and is cheaper than them.

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