The Garmin nuvi 1450 greets you with a huge 5" screen
Overview The Garmin nuvi 1450 will greet you with two questions: "Where To?" and "View Map?." At an affordable MSRP of $229 you’ll get the necessary basics to navigate 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. Its digital elevation maps show you shaded contours at higher zoom levels, giving you a big picture of the surrounding terrain. With its slim design and a 5” TFT color touchscreen, it’s an extremely portable GPS system. Just touch the color screen to easily look up addresses and services and get voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions. It's easy to see where you're going on nuvi 1450'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. The Garmin GPS 1450 also includes text to speech enabling the GPS to not only tell you when to turn, but also announce the street name on which to turn. A nice addition is the enhanced user interface allowing you to scroll between screens by simply sliding your finger across the screen. You also have the ability to upload custom points of interest (POIs) of your own and with HotFix® satellite prediction the Garmin nuvi 1450 will calculate your position faster so you can get there sooner. The Garmin nuvi 1450 also offers 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. Hopefully the following information will help you determine if this Garmin GPS is the best portable GPS for your needs. In addition check out the Garmin nuvi 1450 GPS ratings at the end of this article which are based on ratings from actual owners of the Garmin nuvi 1450. Let nuvi Show You Around the City With its enhanced pedestrian navigation capabilities, the Garmin nuvi 1450 is the perfect travel companion for getting around town. Download optional cityXplorer™ content to help you navigate city public transit. You’ll know where to walk, where to catch the bus, subway, tram or other transportation and how long it will take to get there. The cityXplorer maps are available for select cities throughout North America and Europe with prices starting at $9.99. Get in the Correct Lane Before it’s too Late You’ll no longer have to wonder which lane you need to be in to make an upcoming turn. Garmin’s Lane Assist with junction view will guide you to the correct lane for an approaching turn or exit, making unfamiliar intersections and exits really easy to navigate. It will realistically display the road signs and junctions on your route in addition to arrows that indicate the proper lane for navigation. Lane assist with junction view is only available for select metropolitan cities. Plan Ahead Before You Go The Garmin nuvi 1450 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 1450's large screen. If you are making sales calls or running errands with multiple stops, this Garmin GPS automatically will sort multiple destinations to provide an efficient route. 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. There’s Even More Navigation isn’t the only thing the Garmin nuvi 1450 will do. It saves you gas and money with ecoRoute — a green feature that calculates the most fuel-efficient route, tracks fuel usage and more. There are two other models of the Garmin nuvi 1450, the “ Garmin nuvi 1450T which includes a FM traffic receiver and the “ Garmin nuvi 1450LMT which includes a FM traffic receiver and lifetime Garmin map updates. If you are like me, there are always some features you may want to get detailed information on. I have found that the operator’s manual is a great source of information. (normally the last thing I read) Just click on nuvi 1450 manual and you can view the operator’s manual for this Garmin GPS 1400 series unit. Garmin nuvi 1450 Specifications: Introduced: April 2009 What's in the Box: * nuvi 1450 Note: The state of Minnesota prohibits the installation of portable GPS units on the windshield of your vehicle. Owner Reviews Amazon By KyOTGal "Mimi", April 17, 2010 Over the past 10 months I had spent WAY too many hours reading reviews on GPS systems. Something would look like the best thing since sliced bread, then there would be reviews that the tech support was a nightmare, maps were outdated, etc. I liked the bigger size and the way this looked (the Interchange graphics especially)and was going out of state in February, so I had to make a decision. At the time, there were only a few reviews. On the day I prepared to order this Garmin 1450 there was negative review. I thought "Oh, great...", but ordered it anyway, totally overwhelmed & frustrated with the whole endeavor. It has truly been a delight. My husband has had a low-tech Garmin for years & I never liked it. My son has a Tom-Tom, friends have Magellans, etc. We found restaurants, every location we needed, all effortlessly. I was afraid to do the review immediately, for fear it would die in the future, so I have waited 3 months. All is good! The only negative thing I might include is we did need to "reboot" twice on hot days when it was on the dash - I assume because it got hot. The reboot takes only a few seconds & it never happened when I left it sitting on its Friction Mount on the gearshift mound (out of the sun). I am truly quite pleased & grateful that I haven't had problems. I hope whatever you select turns out to be such a successful experience! By O. Giangiordano, May 28, 2010 This unit replaced an older Garmin. It was easy for us to operate since many of the operations/features were similar to the old one. We received it the day before a long trip (around 1100 miles round trip). We were familiar with the route, but we wanted to give the unit a good test since we have several other trips later this year where we do not know the route. The overall features were good to excellant. However, the unit locked up once and it took us a while to get it back on line. The unit also randomly shut itself down 9 times, and it took several minutes each time to get it back on line. Since we knew the route, no problems were caused. But there are times where shutting down on it's own could cause significant confusion or problems. We sent this one back. I think a GPS has to be reliable, otherwise why have it (the first Garmin never gave us a single problem). Walmart By RoadRunnerII, 07/13/2010 I purchased this unit on June 12, 2010 and it has worked exactly how the features said that it should i have been on many trips and i haven't had any problems as of yet and as far as it shutting down they have a update for that free of charge that will take care of that problem so I am a very happy customer and would recommend this product to anyone interested in a top of the line GPS!!! By jamix018, 06/30/2010 I was sooo excited when we got this gps because the one that came installed in my truck needed a $250 updated cd so we thought this gps would be perfect. The only nice thing about it is that it has a 5.0' touch screen. Other than that i dont care for it. The lane assist didn't work and after 2 days it just wouldn't turn on again. We returned and got the Garmin 1390t and we LOVE IT! It has bluetooth, and the lane assist is awesome! That's the one I would reccomend. Owner GPS Ratings Amazon 46 reviews Walmart 14 reviews Return from Garmin nuvi 1450 to Garmin Auto GPS |
The 1450 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 
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