Our Overall Score:
8.9/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Sat Nav category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £179
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Garmin or alternative products in the Sat Nav category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav
GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav scores 8.5/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Sat Nav. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Sat Nav, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Sat Nav? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav scores 9.3/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Sat Nav category was £349, whilst the cheapest we found was £89 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Sat Nav category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Sat Nav category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Sat Nav category. This was £181.48 from the 31 products we found in that category. So GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav actually comes in below average at £179.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £349 and the least expensive, which was £89. In total we found that of the 31, 13 were more expensive and 15 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav.
Prices of products from Garmin
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Garmin. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Garmin, which was £171.15 of the 45 products we found. So GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Garmin was £12.99 with the most expensive coming in at £599.
Prices of products from Garmin and in the Sat Nav category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Garmin that sit specifically within the Sat Nav category.
For this we found that the average price was £175.57, making GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav at £179 actually above average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £349 with the lowest priced item being £89. In total there were 6 items that were more expensive and 6 that was less expensive.
Reviews of GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav
GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav scores 8.8/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav is.
Overall score
GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav scores 8.9/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Garmin so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: GARMIN DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav
- Brand: Garmin
- Model Number: 10195021
- Lifetime maps & speed camera updatesLifetime traffic updates via smartphoneWiFi updatesHands-free calling via BluetoothReceive smartphone messages
- EAN: 753759211882
- Description: Planning a road trip?Find your way around Europe with the Garmin DriveSmart 55 MT-S 5.5″ Sat Nav. Simplify your travel with the touchscreen, edge-to-edge display and turn-by-turn directions.Stay in the knowPair your Garmin DriveSmart with a compatible smartphone to get real-time traffic, parking and weather updates. Driver alerts warn you of upcoming curves, speed changes, safety cameras and level crossings. Enable Live Track on the Smartphone Link mobile app to let friends track your whereabouts.Hands-free callsBluetooth wireless technology allows for hands-free calling and smart notifications so that you can keep your hands on the wheel.Take a little detourThe Up Ahead feature shows food stops, petrol stations and other points of interests. View TripAdvisor ratings and Foursquare data for quick travel ideas.What are free Lifetime Maps?You don’t want to be driving through the town centre when there’s a newly built bypass. Keep updated with changes to roads, junctions, addresses, and points of interest. With free Lifetime Maps you can download a full update of your maps at least four times a year.Updates are free of charge and provided for the useful life of the device (i.e. as long as the manufacturer supports it with software updates, services, content, or accessories).What is free Lifetime Traffic?Don’t get stuck in a jam. Find the best route to work, home, or ensure you get to your appointment on time with free Lifetime Traffic. It shows you exactly where the delay starts and ends so you can be confident you’re on the fastest route.’Lifetime’ means the period of time that the sat nav manufacturer continues to support your device with software updates, services, content, or accessories. The useful life of the smartphone app means the period of time that the manufacturer continues to support the app with updates.__________________________________________________________Please note: Map updates may require a microSD card.
- Product ID: 24525621891
