nüvi 215W: Simple Navigation At An Affordable Price
Go wide and get peace of mind with nüvi 215W. This affordable, widescreen navigator leads the way with turn-by-turn directions. It's packed with millions of destinations and maps for Southern Africa. Like the rest of the sleek nüvi 2x5-series, this portable navigator is priced right and ultra-easy to use.
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With nüvi 215W's widescreen display, you'll always get the big picture. View map detail, driving directions, photos and more in bright, brilliant color. Its sunlight-readable, 4.3-inch display is easy to read — from any direction.
Navigate With Ease
nüvi 215W comes ready to go right out of the box with Garmap Southern Africa street maps, including a hefty points of interest (POIs) database with hotels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more. Simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, and nüvi takes you there with turn-by-turn directions, 2-D or 3-D maps and and smooth map updates as you navigate. Its digital elevation maps show you shaded contours at higher zoom levels, giving you a big picture of the surrounding terrain. In addition, nüvi 215W accepts custom points of interest (POIs), such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs. With HotFix™ satellite prediction, nüvi calculates your position faster to get you there quicker.
Take It With You
Like the rest of the nüvi 2x5-series, nüvi 215W sports a sleek, slim design and fits comfortably in your pocket or purse. Its rechargeable lithium-ion battery makes it convenient for navigation by car or foot. With its "Where Am I?" emergency locator, you always know your location. Simply tap the screen to get your exact latitude and longitude coordinates, the nearest address and intersection, and the closest hospitals, police stations and fuel stations.
Go Beyond Navigation
Navigation is just the beginning. nüvi 215W 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 Google™ Panoramio™ pictures via our Garmin Connect Photos website and navigate to them. The 215W is compatible with the free Garmin Garage where you can download animated vehicles that show your location on the map. It also comes with Garmin Lock™, an anti-theft feature. Enhance your travel experience with optional plug-in SD cards such as Garmin Travel Guides for detailed data on attractions.
Handfree calling allows you to make and recieve calls via this GPS system using your cell phone thats what makes this system so unique from other GPS systems
Package Includes:
- Nüvi 215W
- Vehicle suction cup mount
- Vehicle power cable
- Dashboard disk
- Quick start manual
- Preloaded Micro SD card with Garmap Southern Africa Streetmaps
Nuvi 215W Features:
Unit dimensions: WxHxD: 12.2cm W x 7.4cm H x 2.0cm D
- Display size: WxH: 9.7cm W x 5.7cm H; 10.9cm diag
- Display resolution: WxH: 480 x 272 pixels
- Display type: WQVGA color TFT with white backlight
- Weight: 172.93 g
- Battery: rechargeable lithium-ion
- Battery Life: up to 4 hours
- Waterproof: no
- High-sensitivity receiver: yes
- RoHS version available: yes
- Preloaded maps: yes
- Ability to add maps: yes
- Built-in memory: internal solid state
- Waypoints/favorites/locations: 1000
- Basemap: yes
- Accepts data cards: micro SD cards
- Voice prompts: yes (internal speaker)
- 3D map view: yes
- Auto re-route (fast off-route and detour recalculation): yes
- Choice of route setup (faster time, shorter distance, off road): yes
- Route avoidance (avoid highways, tolls etc.): yes
- Custom POIs (ability to add additional points of interest): yes
- Hands-free calling with Bluetooth® wireless technology: yes
- FM traffic compatible: yes
- XM® Navtraffic (includes basic weather) & Radio for U.S. compatible: yes
- MSN® Direct for U.S. compatible: yes
- Where Am I? (find closest hospitals, police & gas stations, nearest address & intersection): yes
- Photo navigation (navigate to geotagged photos): yes
- Picture viewer: yes
- Garmin Garage™ (select car-shaped icons for map navigation): yes
- World travel clock, currency & measurement converter, calculator: yes
- Touchscreen: yes
- Qwerty or ABC keyboard (choose keyboard layout): yes
- Garmin Lock™ (anti-theft feature): yes
