"We have taken the legacy of the popular GPS III Plus and implemented our latest navigation technology to create an extremely powerful tool for travelers of all sorts," said Gary Kelley, Garmin’s director of marketing. "Whether you are driving, boating, hiking, hunting or fishing — the GPS V will give you a clearer picture of your current position and help you reach your intended destination more efficiently."
The GPS V incorporates the same
user-friendly design, two-way display, functionality and portability as
the GPS III Plus, but it also boasts longer battery life, higher screen
resolution, better accuracy, more internal memory, and superior
navigation capabilities for drivers.
Business travelers and
vacationers will appreciate the convenience of setting the GPS V on the
dash of their vehicle, entering a specific location and allowing the
device quickly plot a series of turns to reach their point of interest.
Audible beeps will alert drivers when they are approaching necessary
turns or their final destination, taking away almost all the guesswork
of getting around in an unfamiliar city. They can program a route using
the built-in basemap on the GPS V or by downloading map data from select
MapSource products.
The GPS V is also a
memory-rich device, boasting a tenfold increase in internal memory over
the GPS III Plus. Its 19 megabytes of memory allow users to store
street-level maps from the new City Select CD-ROM with automatic route
generation. The increased memory will also provide look-up capabilities
for addresses and points of interests using the dedicated "find" button
on the GPS V.
Because the GPS V is enabled to accept
enhanced GPS position data from the Wide Area Augmentation System
(WAAS), consumers are typically able to see where they are — within 10
feet of their actual location — on a four-level grayscale, moving map
display.
Specific features of the GPS V include: