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GPS receiver with fast auto-routing, voice guidance including announcement of street names, big color display with touchscreen, worldwide base map, pre-loaded detailed maps of all of Europe and USB interface. Well suited as navigation system in all kinds of vehicles, especially in mini vans, trucks and motorhomes.
The model GARMIN Nüvi 5000 provides fast automatic route calculation - including multiple intermediate destinations if required - plus visual and voice guidance. It is easy to use, has a very large, easy to read color display with touch screen, an extremely sensitive antenna and an integrated worldwide base map. It is very well suited as a navigation system in all kinds of vehicles and requires an external power supply.
It has
3.48 GB built-in memory to store detailed maps with even more information, such as local roads, hotels, restaurants, public buildings and points of interest. This model comes with pre-loaded maps of all of Europe which occupy approximately 1.82 GB of memory including various language files. The remaining 1.65 GB memory is available to store additional detailed maps, MP3 and waypoint files or pictures.
This model also has a speech computer to announce the names of the roads, to speak words
and phrases of the language guides and to read audible books. In addition, the GPS has a slot for an optional SD memory module to store additional maps or data and an USB connector to exchange data with a computer. It supports a TMC receiver to incorporate traffic news (TMC receiver available as an option). The Nüvi 5000 provides navigation information outdoors, in a car, in a train or even in an airplane (see MapSource
examples).
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- Integrated 12 channel receiver with very sensitive built-in antenna, connector for external GPS antenna (external antenna available as an option).
- User interface in 26 languages: American English, British English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
- Voice prompting in 30 languages: For the following languages are voices available, which can speak directions including street names: Dutch, American English, Australian English, British English, European French, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, American Spanish, European Spanish and Swedish. There is more than one voice available for some of these languages, but not all voice can speak street names.
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following languages are voices available, which can speak directions, but not street names: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Flemish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian and Turkish.
- Integrated worldwide base map with countries of all continents including major cities and major highways.
- 3.48 GB built-in memory to store detailed maps with even more information, such as local roads, hotels, restaurants, public buildings and points of interest. This model comes with pre-loaded maps of all of Europe which occupy approximately 1.82 GB of memory including various language files. The remaining 1.65 GB memory is available to store additional detailed maps, waypoint files and pictures.
- Routing speed: 6 (see GPS Routing Speed for details).
- Supports FM traffic news receiver (TMC receiver available as an option). Receives and processes traffic news messages broadcasted by radio stations. If the GPS receives a message about a traffic jam, blocked road etc. along the planned route, it can automatically compute a detour. Traffic news messages are broadcasted by many radio stations in various European countries including Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. These messages are
broadcasted for free and do not require any subscriptions. The TMC receiver works independent from the car radio and finds stations with traffic news messages automatically.
- Slot for SD memory card (SD memory cards available as options).
- The travel kit provides the following features:
- MP3 player
- Audible book reader, reads audible books; download audible books from the Internet.
- Picture viewer, displays pictures and provides various options, such as zooming, rotation etc.
- Various Games
- To be used in any kind of vehicles, especially suitable for mini vans, pick-ups, trucks, busses and motor homes. Comes with power cable and mounting kit with suction cup for quick mounting and dismounting to easily remove the GPS receiver (seamless switching between cars, theft protection etc.), does not require any installation.
- Large, illuminated, easy to read LCD display with automatic backlight adjustment. Dimension: 114x69 mm (4.5x2.7 inches), resolution: 800x480 pixels, 65536 colors
- Easy to operate via touchscreen.
- Manual or automatic switching of the display between daytime and nighttime, based on time and the current position (changes the colors of the display between sunset and sunrise for more comfortable viewing) Daytime: bright background, nighttime: dark background.
- Device is not waterproof.
- Powered by an external 12/24 V power source, e.g. from a car's cigarette lighter (power cord included).
- Short time to first fix (TTFF¹: approx. 15 seconds after a warm start, meaning there are valid coordinates of the satellites available, or approx. 45 seconds after a cold start, meaning there are no valid coordinates of the satellites available).
- Data exchange with PC via USB connector (connection cable included).
- Firmware stored in Flash-Memory, can be updated by the user
- Operating temperatures 0 .. 60°C (32° .. 140°F)
- Dimensions: 144x94x20 mm (5.65x3.71x0.8 inches)
- Weight: 263 g (9.29 ounces)
¹) TTFF: Time To First Fix, time until the first information about the local position is acquired.
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- Automatic computing of a route to a user selected destination including optional via-points.
Various options to control route computation including manual and automated sorting of via-points.
- Automatic re-calculation of the route when leaving the planned route.
- Automatic re-calculation of the route when receiving a message about a traffic jam or a blocked road along the planned route
(TMC receiver available as an option).
- Guidance on the display (visual guidance) and voice guidance via the loudspeakers (acoustic guidance). Also announces road names with navigation instructions.
(Announcement of the road names not supported by all languages)
- Fast route calculation and re-calculation.
Finds routes 6 times faster than the GARMIN StreetPilot III, see GPS Routing Speed for more information.
- World map with zoom function.
- Pre-installed detailed map of Europe (City Navigator Europe NT)
- Information on the map displayed in 5 levels of details.
- Find waypoints, cities and exits.
- Extended search function for points of interest, addresses and intersections.
- Stores up to 3000 waypoints with name (up to 30 characters), icon (choice of more than 100 symbols), image and phone number. Supports categories to organize waypoints.
- Current position (longitude, latitude, altitude)
- Position and signal strength of the satellites
- Current time
- Current bearing
- Current, average and maximum speed
- Trip duration and distance (Odometer)
- Supports metric and U.S. units
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The image above shows the display of the Nüvi 5000 in true resolution (800x480 pixels).
This does not necessarily mean the display is shown it its true size (114x69 mm),
the actual size of this image depends on the properties of your display.
In order to improve the appearance of this document, the images below have been reduced to 400x240 pixels.
| Main Menu |
Satellites |
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- Status bar with GPS signal strength and current time
- Search destination
- View map
- Stop navigation (only shown if there is an active route)
- Compute a detour (only shown if there is an active route)
- Adjust volume
- Tools (system settings, information about current position, manage data, image viewer, world clock, calculator etc., see Tools 1..2 below)
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- Position of the satellites, the sun and the moon
- Coordinates of the current position
- Current speed
- Current elevation above sea level
- Strength of the satellites' signals
- Back to previous page
- Accuracy of the current position indication
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| Tools (1 of 2) |
Tools (2 of 2) |
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- Settings (system, navigation, display, time, languages (text and speech), map, safety and alarms)
- Current position (coordinates and elevation, nearest address, nearest intersection, find nearest hospitals, police stations and gas stations, save current position as waypoint)
- Route management
- Help about using your Nüvi 5000
- MP3 player, listen to your favorite music while travelling
- Audible book reader, reads audible books; download audible books from the Internet
- Picture viewer, displays pictures and provides various options, such as zooming, rotation etc.
- Traffic messages
- Back to previous page
- To the next tools page
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- Various games
- Manage your own data ("Home", erase track, manage your own waypoints)
- Back to previous page
- To the previous tools page
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| Current Position |
Text Entry |
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- Current position (coordinates and elevation)
- Nearest address
- Nearest intersection
- Find nearest hospitals
- Find nearest police stations
- Find nearest gas stations
- Back to previous page
- Save current position as waypoint
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- Field for text entry
- Move cursor left
- Move cursor right
- Delete last character
- Keyboard
- Back to previous page
- Keyboard mode (language)
- Switch to special characters
- Finish text entry
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| Map (day mode) |
Map (night mode) |
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- GPS status
- Map in 3D view in day mode with current position (blue car)
- Current speed
- To main menu
- Current heading
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- GPS status
- Map in 3D view in night mode with current position (blue car)
- Current speed
- To main menu
- Current heading
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| Route |
Vias |
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- Planned route (pink line) with current position (blue car), start (green flag), vias (orange flags) and final destination (black and white flag)
- Back to previous page
- Save current route
- Length of the planned route
- Estimated travel time for the complete route
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- Start of the route
- Vias, also known as intermediate destinations (you may move or delete each via point)
- Insert new via point
- Back to previous page
- Re-calculate the route, the GPS may optimize the order of the vias to find the shortest route
- To the next vias
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| Direction |
Autozoom |
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- Name of the road onto which you will turn
- Map with current position (blue car), planned route (pink line) and next turn (white arrow)
- Estimated arrival time at final destination
- To main menu
- Distance to next turn
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- Highly zoomed map with detailed view of next turn (will be display automatically when approaching a turn)
- Change scale ("-" and "+")
- Direction
- Distance to next turn
- Estimated time to next turn
- Back to previous page
- To previous turn
- To next turn
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| Trip Computer |
Track |
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- Current moving direction
- Current speed
- Distance to final destination
- Travelled distance (odometer)
- Average speed including stopped time
- Average speed without stopped time
- Maximum speed
- Total time since last reset
- Total moving time
- Total stopped time
- Back to previous page
- Reset trip data (odometer, average speed, time)
- Reset maximum speed
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- Map with travelled path (track, blue line), you may show or hide the track on the map
- Change scale ("-" and "+")
- Back to previous page
- Save position (head of arrow) as waypoint
- Navigate to position (head of arrow)
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| Traffic Messages |
Traffic Message |
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- Color code (green = traffic still flowing, yellow = traffic partially congested, red = traffic is heavily congested or stopped)
- Name of affected road (touch to display traffic incident on the map)
- Distance from current location to traffic incident
- Direction from current location to traffic incident
- Back to previous page
- Previous traffic incidents
- Next traffic incidents
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- Type of traffic incident and distance from current position to incident
- Name of affected road
- Color code (green = traffic still flowing, yellow = traffic partially congested, red = traffic is heavily congested or stopped)
- Change scale ("-" and "+")
- Back to previous page
- Previous traffic incident
- Next traffic incident
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- GARMIN Nüvi 5000:
This model has been discontinued; however, you can still order options for the Nüvi 5000.
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All options for the GARMIN Nüvi 5000 in detail, find maps here.
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Quick start manuals, owner's manuals and firmware upgrade for GARMIN Nüvi 5000:
- Quick start manuals:
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- Owner's manuals:
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- Firmware Upgrade:
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