If you touch those icons, it’ll bring up a link to further info, routing or calling. As you travel along it will display icons for restaurants, gas stations, etc. The map display is more like a smart phone app. It gives you meaningful voice prompts such as “Turn right just after the CVS” or “Turn right at the stoplight.” It also displays what appear to be more accurate pictures of complex interchanges and exits and will visually represent which lane(s) to be in for an exit, not just a screen icon. As far as GPS functions go, the navigation works very well.
This week my Touratech locking mount finally arrived from Seattle and I’ve tested the 590LM on the way to and from work. The 590 ties into your phone’s music collection and features an additional link to Pandora if you prefer to stream. The music part of XM satellite hasn’t been lost, however. In fact, they’ve cut the cord to XM satellite radio in favor of a Smartlink app which uses your mobile phone’s data to provide traffic and weather information - at a small cost, but much cheaper than an XM subscription. Garmin has turned that around and the new 590 features robust connection features for integrating with the newer stereo headsets as well as smart phones. The music side of things was a little disappointing. And for navigation purposes, it probably did fine.
#Voices for garmin gps 2015 2016 Bluetooth
The last GPS I had, the Zumo 665, was a Bluetooth capable unit. The older Zumo’s have done Bluetooth since the last decade, but it’s been rather lazily keeping pace with development of new technology. Bluetooth integration is much more robust. In addition to the enhanced speed and the better screen, Garmin has upped the ante on another area. (Grabbed from the inter webs) Zumo screen comparison 590 on the right and 66X on the left What is that? It gets brighter in sunlight. Finally, and most importantly perhaps, the screen is trans-reflective. If you’ve ever waited for your Zumo to take forever to re-draw a screen, you’ll appreciate this right off the bat. That means Lifetime Maps in Garmin-speak. But on delving deeper, there are some really neat things going on here. Now, true, it’s a step back in terms of numbers.
What really got my attention, though, was the Zumo 590. The BMW Motorrad Navigators have been advanced, but I don’t have one of the newer bikes with water cooled engines and the left grip wonder dials, so I ignored those as well. Seemed like they were sort of going back in numbers, so I figured I’d ignore that one, too. There were departures into hiking/motorcycle hybrids with weird names like Montana and Monterra. I had been very happy with the Zumo 665 for the past couple of years and had stopped noting the new models. Perhaps with little fanfare, Garmin snuck in a new model in their Zumo motorcycle GPS lineup.
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