Garmin zumo 396LMT-S GPS | Review
The Garmin zumo 396LMT-S mounted on a Yamaha Tracer GT.
When you’re in unfamiliar territory, it’s getting dark, the clouds to the west are looking ominous, cell service is spotty (and isn?t it always, when you need it most") and you just want to find a hot meal and a soft pillow, a GPS starts looking extremely appealing.
Yet technology marches inexorably forward, and with it prices go up and features get head-scratchingly complex, and at times it feels as though all that whiz-bang has taken a backseat to actual usability. So in many ways, the modest 4.3-inch Garmin zumo 396LMT-S is a bit of fresh air. Yes, it’s quite feature-laden, especially for its price ($399.99), nearly half that of its 595LM big brother (read the review here). But for once the whiz-bang delivers what I actually want rather than what a firmware programmer thinks is cool.
Installation and initial setup are easy; the 396LMT-S lives a simple, mostly wireless life, so there’s but one power cable to route, with no extraneous USB inputs or jacks, and map and software updates are all done over Wi-Fi so there’s no need to plug into your computer except for GPX file transfers.
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