I decided to take a look at this article, and found that the haklabs page I linked to in an earlier version of this post is gone.
#NEWEST GARMIN NUVI 255W UPDATE UPDATE#
UPDATE (): I thought standalone GPS systems were all but dead, but looking at my site logs today I found that 20+ people visit this page every day. So I’ll keep using the Garmin for the foreseeable future. And I don’t have a windshield mount for my phone, either. But if I use my phone as a GPS driving aid, I can actually watch the battery drain. And although I would never, ever do this to my own GPS, I could, theoretically, report that Method 2, Part A on the linked page works like a charm on Nuvi 260W units. ( see updates below)
But if you were the kind of person who isn’t opposed to that, all you need is some spare time, a computer, a Bittorrent client, a USB mini B cable and, most likely, a small (2 to 8GB) SD card. I would never, ever recommend that you put an illegally hacked map on your GPS.
#NEWEST GARMIN NUVI 255W UPDATE FOR FREE#
If you’re still rocking a Garmin GPS unit, you might not know that updating the maps for free is amazingly easy. But now that you can buy a whole new (refurbished) unit for only $10 more than a map upgrade… why bother? $50 didn’t seem like much back when a GPS cost $700.
This makes paying $49.99 for a map upgrade seem like a losing proposition. I wouldn’t call standalone GPS units “disposable”… but nowadays you can buy entry-level Garmin car units for as little as $89.99, and refurbished units can be had for as little as $59.95.
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