Nuvi 205W Part 1

[JasonLee]

as for tracking purposes, the Nuvi200 is not a good choice with low accuracy.
Trip log feature in N205 not designed as a tracking tool as well, it function as a log if user want to know how and where they came from.

Having matched the tracks recorded simultaneously by the Nuvi 200 and the Etrex Vista side-by-side, I beg to differ on the assumed poor accuracy of the Nuvi 200. Of course the downside of the Nuvi is the short 5-hour battery life as it is really not designed to be used outside the car.

See for yourself and be surprised.

[JasonLee]

Let me show you another side-by-side comparison between my Nuvi 200 and my hand-held Magellan Meridian Color set to its highest resolution of 10metres/track point and be amazed.

[aceedburn]

screen protectors are HIGHLY recommended for all nuvis. imagine seeing scratches on the touchscreen of your brand new nuvi after 1 week? a RM30 screen protector is all it takes to keep your unit looking brand new even after years of usage!

[JasonLee]

Bro gedebe,

I suggest you decide after playing with it for a while. The 205 even without a protector is quite insensitive to touch and quite difficult to scroll by dragging unlike the 200. Stick on a PE film or something similar to the protector and see if the sensitivity is still acceptable to you then you decide whether you still want to plonk money down for a protector. I don't use one because I don't intend to keep my Nuvi forever. If it gets badly scratched after 2 years, it is a good excuse and time for me to buy a newer model.

Bear in mind that My Nuvi 200 is only 10 months old and it is now already obsolete (discontinued). Good thing is, it has not a single scratch on the screen but already many scratches and nicks on the casing.

[gedebe]

Bro gedebe,

I suggest you decide after playing with it for a while. The 205 even without a protector is quite insensitive to touch and quite difficult to scroll by dragging unlike the 200. Stick on a PE film or something similar to the protector and see if the sensitivity is still acceptable to you then you decide whether you still want to plonk money down for a protector. I don't use one because I don't intend to keep my Nuvi forever. If it gets badly scratched after 2 years, it is a good excuse and time for me to buy a newer model.

Bear in mind that My Nuvi 200 is only 10 months old and it is now already obsolete (discontinued). Good thing is, it has not a single scratch on the screen but already many scratches and nicks on the casing.

Wah! So many disadvantage of 205W compare to 200W. No wonder I feel like not comfortable dragging the cursor around.
Jason: on another matter, is there any track log in 205w that I could use wnutrack to plot my track?

[JasonLee]

Jason: on another matter, is there any track log in 205w that I could use wnutrack to plot my track?

No need.

Just use MapSource to receive the tracks from your device then in Mapsource you can do whatever you want with it and save it as gdb files eventually.

[gedebe]

Good suggesion on Jason for checking 1st, but just for my info, what is the screen protector that you all used?

[stuartloh]

what's the difference between 200W & 205W?

1, The most important difference is 205W can finish searching the position more faster(very fast,in just few seconds only when you start the search at the same location).thats the most important when you come out from a building(shopping malls).

I had the complaint from my sister when using the 200W that i sold to her(as second hand ),most of the time when coming out from shopping mall have to stop by the roadside to regain the location at least for 30 seconds to one minute.

2, 205W can categories the POI under difference Category.that is good when you want to have a quicker scroll search.but 200W can't do that.

3, 205W have QWERTY keyboard.

4, 200W have a longer using time(5 hours),where as the 205W is about 4 hours.

[ajay]

thnx for yr info! i think it's good enough to go for 205w. i hear it uses faster processor too right?

[zamad]

My 205W was experiencing severe display lag for the last few weeks or so. The refresh rate was about 1 sec, and always lag between 1 to 2 seconds even though my speed was around 80 - 90 km/h on highways. At roundabouts, my vehicle icon is still in the roundabout even though I've exited!

My initial thoughts was that the latest maps were more detailed and complex even though it is still less than 40MB, hence the lag. When I loaded it with earlier maps and went driving around, the lag was still very pronounced. I then suspected it was the GPI files in the nuvi \POI folder... so I deleted ALL of them (I actually moved them to my PC), and removed my SD card.

Just now, during one of my weekend drive-arounds, I think the display lag issue apparently disappeared. The screen refresh rate was definitely faster. That made me wonder if it was the GPI files in the \POI folder after all. It gave me the frights when I still got voice alerts on speed traps! I could swear that my \POI folder is empty! and Dr. Nightmare was not selected either. Later [just now] I realised that I had earlier created another folder [\tempFiles] that also contained several GPI files including the SpeedTrap file. Seems that the nuvi not only read from the \POI folder, but anywhere else in the memory ... Can anyone verify this?