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| Garmin StreetPilot 2730 Portable GPS Navigator | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $1,358.21
Buy New: $398.95
You Save: $959.26 (71%)
New (3) Used (1) Refurbished (1) from $169.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 7933
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 454 x 240
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 3.2 x 2
MPN: 010-00408-04
Model: 010-00408-04
UPC: 753759053628
EAN: 0753759053628
ASIN: B000BWRK2S
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 GPS 2730 June 25, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was purchased as a graduation gift for my son. There couldn't have been a better gift. It combines GPS and XM, both of which will make his daily commute to college more pleasant. User friendly. Clear speaking voice in system, so no need to look away from the road.
 Traffic Service Terrible June 24, 2006
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I purchased this GPS specifically for the traffic feature. I travel daily between Long Island and Connecticut and the traffic service is terrible. I sit in traffic and the GPS never picked it up; I cruise along and the GPS tells me there is traffic. This feature needs a major improvement.
Excellent purchase June 20, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have had this StreetPilot 2730 for a little over a week now. It is my first GPS/XM unit and I love it. Since it's pretty useless to write what I like about it (you can see what features it has from it's description and you can see that I like it since I gave it 5 stars) so I'll write what I don't like about it.
1)The FM Modulator: Don't get me wrong it **works** but it just doesn't work to the level that I desire. I live in an area where there are many open frequencies (right outside of a military base) and the sound still isn't very good. The sound is somewhere between cassette quality and radio station quality with intermittent bursts of static. INFACT, the sound from the FM Modulator was so terrible that I had the head-unit in my car replaced just to get clear sound! My car head-unit was stock and didn't offer an auxiliary stereo input - so I had a new Sony head-unit installed that has a front auxiliary input. Some people would say that is frivolous - but when you spend $800 on a unit, why not spend $250 more to make it sound good!
2)The Speaker: If you don't get XM radio I guess the speaker is O.K. .. but if you get XM radio the speaker is pointless. I mean, you wouldn't use that thing to listen to music! I don't even like looking at it. I hate how the power cable has a speaker on the end that is big (like 2.5") and ugly. It's so ugly I plugged it in inside my center counsels power supply and used Velcro straps to hold the wire down (looks a lot better now).
3)There is no 3! Everything else is amazing. The screen is great, the remote is great, the XM radio is amazing, the auto-re-routing is amazing, and on and on.
AND! Have you seen the 2820 - it doesn't even come with the antenna for XM radio. You have to fork out another $250 for it - and it's the NEWER model! What a rip off... all that to make phone calls. Get a $100 blue tooth earpiece, lol. It's what I did!
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ADDITION (A few months after the fact):
Well the unit is still as lovely as it was the day I bought it. I have logged a few thousand miles and trips
1) A few states away
2) To the beach
3) To bars, restaurants, friends houses, etc
are all mapped out flawlessly.
One new 'problem' that I found:
If the area that you're going to is 'new' (built AFTER the map software was loaded on to the GPS) then it will not be able to take you there. This is particularly frustrating when I visit a friends house which was recently built... I have to drive to a major road that has existed for a couple years before the GPS can give me valid directions.
I love this unit! May 13, 2006
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've owned this unit for about three weeks now, and it's changed my driving experience. I received it at my work address, brought it out to my car upon leaving work, and had the GPS up and running to give me directions for the ride home. It was simple. When I got home, I called the number to have the XM radio activated. It was somewhat frustrating talking to a "robot" but I had the XM radio activated in under an hour. It would have taken less time, but I got disconnected and had to start the entire process over again.
The first couple of days I noticed that the screen was completely washed out during daytime hours, but bright and clear during the night. I remedied this by adjusting the screen setting to manual and putting it at 100 percent. Now the screen is bright and clear no matter what the outside lighting is. I like the fact that you can play the XM radio and use your GPS simultaneously. The GPS unit's voice prompts will interrupt the music to give you your driving directions. I ran the tuner through my car stereo and the sound is clear except for the rare occasion when driving through a tunnel or other obstacle. I placed the flat antenna on my dashboard and it works fine. The XM radio allows you to add your favorite artists and the unit will scan for these artists and switch the station over to play their songs when they are on any of the stations. I haven't used the GPS a great deal, but when I have, the voice prompt has given me ample time to negotiate turns. When I tire of listening to XM radio and want to play a CD on my car's CD changer, I just hit the CD button on the car stereo and it switches over to the CD player, leaving the 2730 quiet. You can still see the GPS map and driving directions, but won't hear them. You can also still see the XM radio screen if you have it set to that, and if one of your favorite artists comes on, just switch back to the FM mode on your car stereo to hear your favorite artist.
The only complaint I have about owning this system is that it is too much fun and I need to be careful about keeping my eyes on the road. The unit is somewhat expensive, but if you had to buy both the GPS and XM separately, it would be much more expensive and cumbersome.
Unit good, XM and Audible Player not as good. May 11, 2006
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
Update after a month:(6-2-06) XM setup on this unit was a real pain. I have 2 other XM radios so tried to add this one to my account online. No go, you have to call to activate this. Which means they charge you a $14.99 activation fee. It is $5 less online and sometimes they don't even charge it. Calling XM is an exercise in frustrating voice response menus, which won't let you activate the traffic service anyway. So just cut to the chase and say "Operator" loudly several times at the outset and save yourself some time and aggravation. It took 2 days and 3 calls to get the radio activated and working.
Secondly, do yourself a favor and toss the card about the 3 "free" audible.com ebook downloads. First of all you have to give them your cc info. Then you don't get 3 ebooks. You only get one real ebook. You get one credit and many books are more than one credit! They also "give" you a 30 minute speech by some guy, whoopie doo. So you get 2 downloads. They also don't tell you you have to download their player even to download anything. I figured that out finally after 5 tries. The player has crashed twice, I've heard 5 minutes of audio. If you actually want to transfer the ebooks to the 2730, you need to hook the unit up to the PC, and make sure the pc's connected to the internet. It's all too spywareish for my tastes. I cancelled it immediately but I regret ever signing up for the service.
I am very pleased with the gps. The routing is good and screen is bright and has nice graphics. I did not think I'd like the 3d view but I do, very much. You can add your own points of interest which I have had to do a lot....this area is growing so rapidly that many things are missing from the database. The traffic function of the XM radio is fantastic, unfortunately the coverage is very limited. Only 2 roads in my county have any coverage and it is only a few miles of each.
I love the MP3 player, and the remote is extremely handy. The XM radio is not nearly as full-featured as my old unit. I am used to being able to punch in the channel number, you can't do that on this unit. The other thing I *really* miss is the "favorite song" feature on my old XM radio (where it alerts you if a favorite song is playing on another channel) and that is not available on this unit. The FM transmitter is a lot weaker than my old XM one also, I often have static problems. I do live in the DC area but I had no trouble with the old radio. I really wanted the MP3, traffic and weather features, I just didn't expect the XM radio to be so disappointing.
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