Review on 📍 Renewed Garmin 010-01681-02 DriveSmart 61 NA LMT-S GPS with Enhanced Smart Features by Bryan Gibbons

I've been using this GPS for 4 weeks and it has met or exceeded my expectations in almost every area. The touchscreen is large, very responsive, and absolutely gorgeous. Directions are accompanied by voice guidance as well as very helpful lane suggestions. I connected the device to my home WiFi and updated the maps while the GPS was in the car parked in the driveway - no need to take the device out of the car and connect it to the computer to view the maps to update. The most amazing thing about this GPS is the totally unrealistic voice recognition ability; I can control the GPS with voice commands without taking my eyes off the road or my hands off the wheel! It recognizes the voice command and the address very quickly and almost perfectly the first time. I've never seen a device with such excellent speech recognition - in my opinion it's just miles ahead of everyone else. I have a South Asian English accent and it doesn't interfere with voice recognition at all. I downloaded the Garmin Smartlink app on my Android phone and connected this GPS to get traffic data and alerts as well. The Garmin Smartlink app uses the phone's battery a bit aggressively, but I can turn the app on and off as needed, so I only turn the app on my phone when I need traffic data for the GPS function. Of course, the GPS works very well even without traffic data (that is, unless you install the Garmin Smartlink app on your phone or leave the app turned off after installing it on your phone). However, thanks to traffic data, GPS provides a very accurate time of arrival at your destination. When the GPS is connected to my phone via bluetooth, I can see text messages etc on the GPS. Since my phone is also connected to the car via Bluetooth, when there is an incoming call, I can receive a call via the car or via GPS. I like receiving calls through my Bluetooth car connection, in this case the GPS doesn't interfere with the phone call; it merely indicates that a telephone call is in progress. There are two things I would like to mention, but they are far from perfect. The map indicates my house street is a one-way street, when it isn't - the GPS loudly complains "You're going the wrong way" every time I leave the house in the same direction on the street! This is less due to the missing GPS module and more to the map data. I wish consumers could just let Garmin know about such map imperfections so they could be "crowdsourced" to correct them. The second less than perfect experience happened when the GPS device started to restart itself endlessly. I suspect this happened when he was trying to update the GPS software (not the map update). I figured I would have to go to Garmin for help or have the unit replaced under warranty. But I tried updating the software and map on the GPS unit via a USB connection via a computer to see if that fixed the problem... and it did! So far the problem hasn't recurred. UPDATE (December 30, 2018): I've been using this GPS for several months now and it continues to meet or exceed my expectations. From time to time it still surprises me with a new feature that I hadn't discovered before. For example, if you drive non-stop for a long time (maybe 2 hours) then it will automatically suggest a stop and suggest the nearest places where you could make a short stopover - great! If you're traveling to an airport or public destination (rather than a private address), it will suggest the nearest parking spots when you arrive at your destination. I recommend this product unreservedly.