Garmin nüvi 5000 Review - Laptop Mag
Laptop Magazine have published a review of the Garmin nüvi 5000 GPS navigator. 'The screen seems to be the sole reason for the nüvi 5000’s supersized $799 price tag. Typically, a navigator at this price would have Bluetooth; the nüvi 5000 lacks this as well as a battery. That means you can only use it while it’s plugged into your car’s cigarette lighter port and your car is running. The nüvi 5000 does have a few extras, though. Connect it to your Mac or Windows computer via USB to drag in MP3s or JPEGs. Pictures looked fantastic on the large 800 x 480-pixel screen and showed great detail and rich colors. The music player is basic, with Repeat and Shuffle controls, and the device itself offers nearly 500MB of free storage. While the nüvi 5000 has an FM transmitter for enjoying music over the car stereo, it performed terribly in our testing. We could just barely make out songs through the static.'