Garmin StreetPilot i5 1.7-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

Manufacturer: Garmin
List Price: $535.70

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Product Features:

	Small, inexpensive but robust automotive GPS navigator
	Unique and convenient click-to-enter scroll wheel makes it easy to select destinations
	Three-dimensional map graphics with voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions through a built-in speaker
	Automatically puts you back on course when you make a wrong turn or run into traffic problems
	Measures 3 x 2.74 x 2.15 inches (W x H x D)

Product Details:

Manufacturer: Garmin

Model No: 010-00496-00

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Sales Rank: 27736

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Customer Reviews:

It fell apart (20 July 2010)
This GPS unit literally fell apart in pieces. First the cord broke, thankfullly not into my car's cigarette lighter; the battery cover falls off of it also and the batteries roll around the floor of the car. I find it very difficult to program. We have no kids and did not handle it roughly so I must have gotten a lemon. I put brand new batteries in it last night to get myself to a job interview this morning and it died before I backed out of my driveway. Needless to say I got lost. It's going in the trash today and I'm looking a replacing it with a TomTom.

I liked this so much I upgraded to another Garmin. (06 January 2009)
This was my first GPS. I liked it so much I upgraded to another Garmin with a bigger screen and gave this one to my daughter.

Get a newer model! (04 December 2008)
Well, this unit will certainly get you there and I love the compact size (I have the almost identical i3), but I'd just like to warn people away from buying this older, and now discontinued model -- especially at this inflated price. There are newer and more advanced units available for less than 200 these days. Also, the baseball-like shape isn't too pocketable and this doesn't have a touch screen, which will slow you down when you're entering a destination. And since it has been discontinued a while, I doubt that it is loaded with the lastest maps.

Never get lost again (17 November 2008)
Now I can no longer live without GPS. Works like a dream, and makes being away form home even better. I can look up local restaurants, or even find a gas station on the way to a distant friends home.

Garmin Streetpilot i5 GPS (12 November 2008)
The Garmin StreetPilot i5 has proved less than reliable. Sadly, it takes you in completely the wrong direction far to often. When programing in a favorite restaurant the Garmin i5 was 5 blocks short of the correct destination and on the incorrect side of the road. The Garmin i5 has given routing instructions that would drive you into the Missouri river instead of the correct left hand turn (and only option). The Garmin i5 in another instance said the destination was 300 miles away when it was essentially across the street. These are just a few of the errors the Garmin i5 has made. The technical support people were polite but only suggested a new map update. The unit was brand new when making these "mistakes" and I don't want to spend more money for a map update when it should have had correct mapping in the beginning. If you want a high percentage of accuracy finding your destination it's not the Garmin i5.