Garmin nüvi 1490T 5-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Integrated Traffic Receiver
- No more guessing which lane you need to be in to make an upcoming turn.
- It’s easy to see where you’re going on nüvi 1490T’s 5-inch touchscreen display.
- For hands-free calling, nüvi 1490T integrates Bluetooth wireless technology with a built-in microphone and speaker.
- nüvi 1490T includes advanced navigation features to take the worry out of traveling.
- In addition, nüvi 1490T automatically sorts multiple destinations to provide an efficient route for errands, deliveries or sales calls.
The large 5.0″ nüvi 1490T offers multiple-point routing and lane assist with junction view to help you manage busy highway interchanges. It also has subscription-free traffic alerts for most cities, hands-free calling, pedestrian navigation options and ecoRoute.It realistically displays road signs and junctions on your route along with arrows that indicate the proper lane for navigation.The large screen nüvi 1490T offers multiple-point routing and lane assist with junction view to help you manage busy highway interchanges. It also has subscription-free traffic alerts for most cities, hands-free calling, pedestrian navigation options and ecoRoute. Navigation is just the beginning. See Even More
It’s easy to see where you’re going on nüvi 1490T’s 5-inch touchscreen display. View map detail, driving directions, photos and more in bright, brilliant color. With its large screen, you’ll always get the big picture. Navigate City Transit… More >>
Garmin nüvi 1490T 5-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Integrated Traffic Receiver
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5 comments
C. Kunde on September 8, 2009 at 1:40 pm
This GPS is as close to perfect as possible. With such a large screen, manipulation is easy and self-explanatory. Spoken directions give proper warning, and the named streets on the map will clear up confusion on tricky corners. The Bluetooth connection works very well. The only issue I have is that caller’s names will not always appear on the incoming call window. Also, if there was a way to include text message reading, that would be extremely useful while driving.
Other than that, I’ve already used this to guide me half way across the country and love it!
D. Race on September 8, 2009 at 4:30 pm
This is a wonderful Product. I took a Business trip to Tennesse from Wisconsin and without the garmin GPS I would have been late to several meetings. I can not say enough about how the garmin got me where I wanted to go when I made a mistake. On the way back to Wisconsin I did not do what garmin told me to do in the Chicago area (go on the tollway) and spent an hour in a I94 parking lot before I got to an exit that garmin suggested. I took the exit and was directed throught Chicago streets and back on I94 past all the traffic. Beleave me I will do what I am told the next time.
B. Chall on September 8, 2009 at 5:23 pm
On September 1, 09 I bought a 1490T from Best Buy in Reno who agreed to match Amazon’s price. I like buying from Amazon but after reading many reviews about poor quality control of Garmin GPS units, I felt it would be quicker to return the unit if there were problems.
This turned out to be a good decision. The first unit I bought could not acquire a satellite signal. I did a firmware upgrade to no avail. The signal strength meter would either show one or no bars. On the other hand, my Iphone, with Navigon software downloaded into it, would access the satellite in seconds. I returned the unit the same day for a refund. Today, September 2, I went to another Best Buy in the area and bought another unit. I tried it in their parking lot and it had the same problem. Just to be sure it wasn’t me who was doing something wrong, I talked to their installers in the auto section, who install GPS units every day, and their tech played with it for awhile and concluded that there was something wrong with the unit. Again, another refund. They told me that the Reno store had just gotten another unit in stock, so I drove back to that store. This time, they didn’t even make me pay for it first and they opened it up and took it out to the parking lot, and same problem. It couldn’t acquire a satellite, and no signal strength showing on the meter. Again my Iphone, in the same position, picked up the satellite in seconds.
I would say that there is, obviously, a problem with a whole batch of these units. I do plan to try again, in a month or so, and see if Garmin has solved the problem. If so, I may still buy one. But, not right now. One Best Buy employee asked me if I had talked to Garmin support. I actually did the day before I purchased it. After reading so many horror stories on the 765T I wanted to know if there had been problems with the 1490T. He said there hadn’t been as far as he knew. I had to stay on hold for 35 minutes to talk to the Garmin tech.
My feeling is that if I buy something new and it has problems right out of the box, I’m not interested in spending hours on the phone and otherwise trying to solve it. I want it to work right out of the box or screw it.
Garmin needs to get their act together regarding the quality control on the GPS units they ship.
reviewer30 on September 8, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I have the Garmin Nuvi 5000 and was thinking about selling it after buying the Nuvi 1490t. After trying it out for a week and reading all the bad reviews, I think that I will return the Nuvi 1490t and keep the Nuvi 5000 for now. I like a lot of map detail and for what I can see the Nuvi 1490t is lacking in that area. Yes, Garmin could fix things with a software update, but I am still waiting for some improvements to be made to the Nuvi 5000 that never came and don’t look like it will!
Joe Back on September 8, 2009 at 6:03 pm
I have recently bought this gps and tried it out on a 400 mi trip. In my opinion this gps -at least with current firmware- is disappointing when used for navigation. Even at the ‘dense’ map detail setting, it shows no features at all on the 3D maps, no context, no cities around, no highway crossings. No approaching POIs too. And of course, no mountain or river or lake names. I was struggling to figure out where I am! This problem should be corrected by a new firmware update (is Garmin hearing?) . Navigating in a blind manner is completely useless and annoying.
To sum up the pros and cons:
PROs
1. Nice display, too bright, needs to be set at 50-60% brightness to be pleasant.
2. Responsive touch-screen, big size makes selections easy.
3. Fast & smooth moving and rotating map. Pleasant to watch.
4. Solid built unit, a bit heavy though.
5. Nice menus, many displayed fields are now selectable.
6. Excellent ecoroute feature, helps see your driving costs.
7. Ability to plan and save (up to 10) multi-waypoint routes.
8. Clear bluetooth connection (bigger speaker) if you manage to pair gps with phone (see cons below).
9. Micro SD card.
10. Many more pros, no space to account for all here.
CONs
1. The ‘less map detail’ problem mentioned above.
2. Heavy and ugly power cable, not nice to look in car.
3. Short battery life (just over 2 h) due to bright 5″ screen consumption.
4. Panning/browsing screen almost impossible (see rubber-band effect) due to software bugs.
5. Some settings (like favorites, POIs or other) are ‘forgotten’ after power cycles, or after connection to PC.
6. Annoying big info balloons popping up if a place on map is touched. Balloons hide map features.
7. Big screen don’t show more map area, as opposed to 4.3″ units, just bigger text and icons. Another disappointing engineering from Garmin.
8. Bluetooth pairing with phone is plagued with many bugs.
9. Many other minor bugs, hopefully to be fixed with upcoming software updates.