If voice recognition is the Garmin nuvi 860’s differentiating feature, than Trusted Reviews indicates that it indeed does voice recognition better than any other device on the market–including TomTom’s x40 LIVE series. The system uses two buttons that attach to your vehicle’s steering wheel–one activates voice recognition and one deactivates it. Once activated, the nuvi 860 doesn’t have any problems recognizing pretty well any command you can throw at it with the odd exception.
While it is on the higher-end of Garmin’s device line-up and has many other great features such as full maps of Western Europe and partial maps of Eastern Europe, Bluetooth, an FM transmitter–which is apparently difficult to set up–RDS-TMC real-time traffic updates, and a few others, it doesn’t have the Lane Assistance or 3D landmarking found on models such as the nuvi 765T. But if you’re living in Western Europe and are looking for an easy-to-use, intuitive, and successfully voice-activated device, the Garmin nuvi 860 could be the navigational answer you’re looking for.
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