Garmin nüvi 1450LMT 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Map & Traffic Updates
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 List Price: $319.99 Sale Price: $123.30 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days 
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Product Description
nüvi 1450LMT features FREE lifetime map and traffic updates.
Details
- Sunlight-readable, 5-inch backlit TFT color touchscreen display with 480 x 272 WQVGA pixel resolution
- Preloaded City Navigator® NT North America (U.S. and Canada)
- Free lifetime map and traffic updates for the most up-to-date maps, POIs, and navigation info, along with constantly updated traffic information
- Advanced navigation features including voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, lane assist with junction view, fuel-saving ecoRoute
- Includes travel tools such as JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock, currency/measurement converters, calculator and more
See the big, wide world with the large screen nüvi 1450LMT. It offers free Lifetime Maps and Traffic, multiple-point routing, lane assist with junction view to guide you through busy highway interchanges, pedestrian routing options and ecoRoute to find the most fuel-efficient route.
 See the big, wide world with the large screen nüvi 1450LMT. |
 Traffic information is updated constantly, and map updates are available up to 4 times a year, with no subscription, fees, or expiration dates.
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 EcoRoute calculates the most fuel-efficient route, tracks fuel usage and more.
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 Simply tap the screen for your exact coordinates, the nearest address/intersection, and the closest fuel and emergency services.
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Extra-Wide, Feature-Rich GPS Navigator Lifetime Maps and Traffic
Includes Free Lifetime Map Updates
With free Lifetime Map and Traffic updates, you always have the most up-to-date maps, points of interest and navigation information available at your fingertips. Traffic information is updated constantly, and map updates are available for download up to 4 times a year. Both features are ready to go, right out of the box, with no subscription or update fees and no expiration dates.
See Even More
It’s easy to see where you’re going on nüvi 1450LMT’s 5-inch touchscreen display. View map detail, driving directions, photos and more in bright, brilliant color. With its big, bold display, you won’t miss a thing.
Navigate City Transit
With its enhanced pedestrian navigation capabilities, nüvi 1450LMT is the perfect travel companion for getting around town. Download optional cityXplorer content to help you navigate city public transit. Know where to walk, where to catch the bus, subway, tram or other transportation and how long it will take to get there. cityXplorer maps are available for select cities throughout North America and Europe. And with prices as low as $9.99, you’ll have money left over to spend in the big city.
Know the Lane Before It’s Too Late
No more guessing which lane you need to be in to make an upcoming turn. Lane assist with junction view guides you to the correct lane for an approaching turn or exit, making unfamiliar intersections and exits easy to navigate. It realistically displays road signs and junctions on your route along with arrows that indicate the proper lane for navigation.
Plan Ahead
nüvi 1450LMT includes advanced navigation features to take the worry out of traveling. With route planning you can save 10 routes, specify via points and preview simulated turns on the 1450LMT’s large screen. In addition, nüvi 1450LMT automatically sorts multiple destinations to provide an efficient route for errands, deliveries or sales calls. A trip log provides an electronic bread crumb trail of up to 10,000 points, so you can see where you’ve been on the map.
Get Turn-by-Turn Directions
nüvi 1450LMT’s intuitive interface greets you with two simple questions: “Where To?” and “View Map.” Touch the color screen to easily look up addresses and services and get voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names to your destination. It comes preloaded with detailed City Navigator NT street maps, nearly 6 million points of interest (POIs), 2-D or 3-D maps and the speed limit for most major roads in the U.S. and Europe. Its digital elevation maps show you shaded contours at higher zoom levels, giving you a big picture of the surrounding terrain. With the 1450LMT’s enhanced user interface, you can slide your finger to conveniently scroll between screens. You can also upload custom POIs. And with HotFix satellite prediction, nüvi calculates your position faster to get you there quicker.
Go Beyond Navigation
Navigation is just the beginning. nüvi 1450LMT saves you gas and money with ecoRoute–a green feature that calculates the most fuel-efficient route, tracks fuel usage and more. The 1450LMT includes many travel tools including JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. With photo navigation, you can download pictures from Garmin Connect Photos and navigate to them. With its “Where Am I?” emergency locator, you always know your location. Simply tap the screen to get your exact latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest address and intersection, and the closest hospitals, police stations and fuel stations. The 1450LMT features Garmin Lock, an anti-theft feature, and is compatible with our free Garmin Garage where you can download custom voices and vehicles. Enhance your travel experience with optional plug-in microSD cards.
What’s in the Box
nüvi 1450; Preloaded City Navigator NT North America (U.S & Canada); Lifetime Maps and Traffic; FM Traffic Receiver With Vehicle Power Cable; Vehicle Suction Cup Mount; USB cable; Dashboard Disc; Quick Start Manual
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5 Customer Reviews
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Just received my 1450LMT so I will post more details later about its performance but I wanted to share some install/update/registration tips based on my experience today. I had to call Garmin customer service and based on their help, I would think Garmin would want to include the following tips in the box since the customer service rep said this is a common problem:
1. Before you plug in the GPS into your computer, go online and create a user name at http://www.Garmin.com.
2. Once you have setup your initial username, DO NOT click on “Register” – instead, close out of all internet browser windows.
3. Plug in your GPS into your computer without any internet browser windows open.
4. Now open Internet Explorer (it runs better on this then Chrome, etc.)
5. Go to “www.garmin.com”
6. Login with your new user name
7. Click on “register” and you should be good to go.
I made the mistake of having a web browser already open when I plugged in the unit and the unit would always get caught in a loop of looking for the registration information and never connect. However, once I followed the above instructions, I had no problems. These instructions may be somewhere in the box but I could not find them so I thought I would share them and hopefully save others some frustration. Cheers.
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I needed to update maps on an older Magellan GPS I received as a gift and when I found out how much updates cost I started looking closer at newer GPS’ with lifetime maps. I first purchased a 5″ TomTom XXL540LMT because of price but had so much trouble trying to download updated maps with help from TT Customer Service. After 5 hrs and 5 techs they said it was a defective product and return it. So I returned it but decided to try another that had caught my eye.
The Garmin nuvi’s had much better ratings. I picked out Garmin nuvi 1450LMT (we travel across country once a year) and started having the same trouble updating but the Customer Service at Garmin handed my call over to a higher up Computer Tech and she had me do a few things that within 45 minutes I was downloading updates with no problems. Because of their expertise and product features I think I will stick with Garmin from now on. Only drawback with this particular model is that it lets me know how much gas I am using when I go anywhere, if I care to look. Hahaha, I better stop looking.
Easy to use, looks great, keeps track of trips, has lots of great features. Can be updated every 3 months but probably will only update once a year. Very satisfied with my purchase and Garmin Customer Service.
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This Garmin 1450LMT (Lifetime Maps and Traffic) is a very nice GPS but it does have some draw-backs. I have used Garmin for years and have been satisfied with them if you can overlook some of their problems. One of the problems is that although you get lifetime traffic if in a covered area, you also get lifetime advertisements in a covered area.
They pop up and eventually go away but they are annoying to the max. The only way to get rid of the ads is to disconnect the traffic receiver which defeats its purpose. To just make them disappear from the screen quickly, you have to touch the back arrow and go to the main screen and then select View Map again. The second problem is that if you decide you want to Update your Maps because its free, you had better be on a very fast internet connection. I am on a T-1 line (fastest and costliest) line around and it took 4 hours to update my maps. And whatever you do, don’t interrupt the process or you will have a display that is total trash. Then there is the added feature of inserting a Micro SD card. Sounds great but listen up. You can add pictures to your Favorites as an added feature.
You can have pictures (jpegs @ jpgs) on the card and you can see them with the Picture Viewer feature and you can add those pictures to your Favorites. HOWEVER. Once you turn the GPS off, those pictures are removed from your Favorites. You can still see them with the Picture Viewer, but in order to have the pictures attached to Your Favorites, you have to connect the GPS to the computer and save those pictures to the GPS INTERNAL memory folder called pictures. Seems that it will not go back to the external Micro SD card to pick up those pictures after Turn Off. Then there is the Language problem. If you select American English, you get clear and concise commands to “Turn Left”, “Turn Right” etc. If you want the voice to tell you not only when or where to turn but to tell you what to turn onto ( so and so street) you have to select American English -Jill. These may be nit picky things but you would think that at some point all of these small things would be incorporated into a fully loaded unit. As far as use is concerned, it is simple and frustrating.
Simple in that you can tell it where you want to go, but it may take you there in a way you never wanted. Although you can select “Shortest Route or Fastest Route”, don’t be surprised if you get to see a portion of the country side you have never seen. It will get you there eventually but to be safe always carry a paper map. Garmin is still the best GPS on the market but just once it would be nice to have a product that has everything in one package. Enjoy but don’t expect everything to be perfect.
Isaac
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These are my first impressions on the Garmin 1450LMT as I’ve only owned this unit for about 1 week. This is my 3rd Garmin GPS unit/ The first was the IQue 3600 followed by the Nuvi 750. Most of my comments would be in comparison to my 750 which I use with Microsoft’s MSN Direct (traffic service).
I’ve had my Nuvi 750 for a few years and came across the 1450 LMT for a good price so I thought I would upgrade to a new one. Features on the 1450 I wanted to have were the 5-inch screen, lane assist and junction view. All three features were a welcome upgrade to my 750. The 5 inch screen does wonders for readability. Lane assist is a big help in unfamiliar areas together with Junction View (even if available only sporadically, is a neat feature to have).
Compared to my 750, this one locks on to the satellites in less than half the time in first time power up. In re-starts, locking on the satellites was almost immediate.
The few things I did not care for are the following:
- Non powered mount. Now I need to use 2 hands to remove the unit from my dash. Big inconvenience if you are used to this feature.
- Advertisements for Traffic service. These are quite annoying (although quite easy to ignore), considering I never had them in my MSN Direct service.
- Traffic user interface needs 2 steps to get the traffic delay information. They should look at what MSN has done.
- Random restarts. Happened 4 times total in the week I’ve owned it. Twice when switching back from displaying “more information” and twice during a 4 hour trip (the unit just turned off by itself).
- I miss the added features of MSN Direct (Fuel Prices, Movie Info, Weather, etc.) that Traffic does not provide.
- Big bulky power adapter
- Recalculation time appears a tad slower vs. the 750.
- Big difference in brightness between 10% and 0% in Night Display mode. Too much brightness/glare in 10% setting while the 0% setting is too dark.
Not really blown away by this unit since there are features I love about my 750 that are not even available with the 1450. I’ll continue using it and add some more comments later.
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I’ve used this unit on 2 trips to Chicago over the past few weeks and had the following additional observations:
- Recalculations are definitely slower vs. my old 750
- I registered my unit and updated the maps but I still have observed 1 random reset during a 3 hour drive stretch. I was hoping this problem would go away after doing a map update. Not yet a problem for me but it’s definitely annoying.
- I don’t understand why the return button is STILL positioned at the bottom left corner, the same spot as the “cancel routing” button at the base page. This makes it very easy to inadvertently canceling your routing. BTW this set-up is similar to the old 750.
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2nd Update:
The random resets have been happening every other time I use the unit which is becoming a nuisance. I noticed that the resets would only happen when I am following a route. I never observed a reset when the unit was just turned on.
I was just about ready to call customer service regarding the random resets but I remembered to check if there is a software update for my unit, and yes there was. I performed the software update (and a map update as well). I am happy to report that since the software/map updates I have not observed a reset at all (knock on wood)! Hopefully this version of software have taken care of the problem.
Note too that I’ve noticed locking on to satellites a lot quicker now than before. Recalculations are quicker as well. Not having a powered mount still bugs me but I’m getting used to it. The unit is getting better, and liking it much better than my 750.
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This garmin is amazing. I have had no problems with it since I bought it on black friday of 2010. The only thing that happened is the traffic feature stopped working on the unit but only because there was an outage in all areas and no one was receiving traffic info at all. Once it was fixed (was down for 4-5 days) the traffic feature has worked perfectly and has even saved me from getting to work late! The size of the screen is amazing that lets you see alot of stuff and the features are awesome and the unit gets reception super fast (within seconds). This is an excellent purchase for this price. Elsewhere this unit goes for close to 300. Do not think twice about this unit.