There are lots of things to consider before you commit to buy Sat nav products, whether it’s checking that the price you’ve found it for is the cheapest or reading customer reviews…you’ll want to make sure you follow our advice to help you get the best products for your money. In this Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic review we’ll run through all of the important things you need to know before you place that order.
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Latest Price: £99.99
Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic reviews
See customer reviews at argos.co.uk:
- Garmin DriveSmart 50LM comes with free safety camera updates and is an advanced sat nav with a 5-inch pinch to-zoom display that combines driver alerts for upcoming sharp curves, fatigue warnings, speed cameras and railroad crossings, with Bluetooth hands-free calling and onscreen smart notifications to encourage safer driving. It comes with FREE lifetime map updates for Western Europe. Receive call, text and social alerts straight onto on your sat nav screen. For traffic information, download the free smartphone link app and pair DriveSmart with your smartphone. Bluetooth also gives you hands-free calling. Lane assist, junction view and Garmin real directions provides detailed guidance. 5 inch TFT LCD touchscreen. Suitable for Car only. Pre-loaded maps for UK, Republic of Ireland, western Europe, . Covers 24 European countries in total. Speed camera alerts no subscription required. Lifetime map updates. Free updates – Free Lifetime Map Updates for UK, Ireland and Western Europe can be downloaded from Garmin Express. No subscription required. Sat Nav features: Saves past routes based on previous journeys. Lane guidance. 2 mapping. Points of interest – displays locations such as petrol stations and restaurants. Bluetooth for hands free calling. Eco route for fuel efficient navigation. General information: Car charger. Windscreen suction mount. USB cable. Up to 1 hour battery life. Size H8.4, W14, D1.8cm. Model number DriveSmart 50LM.
- Product codes: 753759227326 9163319
Depending on the type of product you’re buying, there are obviously some very different things to consider, but key features is normally relevant to the majority of products we review. Make sure you take the time to check out all of the key features of Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic, and compare them to other similar products in the Sat nav category. It’s also worth looking at other products from Garmin to see the typical features you can expect in products from this brand.
Once you’ve got an idea of the key features you’d typically find on Sat nav products, write yourself a list of “must-haves” this will be really important when it comes to narrowing down your selection of potential purchases. Be sure that you stick to this list of key features that you deem essential, i.e don’t be suckered into paying a premium for a product with unnecessary features and likewise don’t be fooled into what appears to be a bargain but actually doesn’t do the job you need it to do. Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic is obviously one of the top products that argos.co.uk sells, so as you’d imagine it will likely deliver most of your needs, depending on how serious you are about getting the very best Sat nav products.
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Price is clearly another priority for most online shoppers, so we’ll now look into the price of Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic to determine what makes it such a good buy and why it has earned the price score of 8.9 out of 10. Seeing as there are 22 products available in the Sat nav, there’s plenty of choice out there. The price that we found Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic at is just £99.99 in our latest search, but the price of Sat nav products can vary hugely. In fact the cheapest product we found in the Sat nav category was just £69.99, with the most expensive product in the category coming in at £429.99.
It’s also worth studying the average price you should expect to pay. In our latest scan of Argos.co.uk we found that the average price of the products in the same category as Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic was £205.9. We then looked specifically at the average price of products from Garmin, which was £151.93 of the 50 products we found. Although similarly the price of products from Garmin can vary quite a bit too, with the cheapest being £19.99 and most expensive at £599.99. Of the 22 products in the Sat nav category, 10 of them were from Garmin.
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Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic Reviews
So we scored Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic 8.9 out of 10, but how did we reach that score? To answer that simply, our review scores are made up of a number of factors including the quality of the product, the price and what customers are saying about it in their reviews.
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To get the quality score, we’re looking at a number of factors, but typically we’re studying the brand of the product, the warranty included and basing it on what customers have to say about the quality.
For the price score, it seems pretty obvious, but we’re basing the score on the price of the product against competitor products or even alternatives from the same brand. For example if we find another Garmin product at a cheaper price than Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic, but we feel they’re of similar quality, we’ll score the cheaper product higher.
Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic review score
For the review score, we gave Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic 9.6 out of 10. To reach that score we use information on what customers are saying about the same product from a number of retailers, to create an aggregate score.
The overall score is then a combination of all the other scores.
If you think Garmin DriveSmart 50LM 5 Inch Sat Nav with EU Maps & Traffic could be the right Sat nav product for you, stop by Argos now by clicking “read reviews” to see what customers are saying about it.
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