Live Services, Traffic, and Smartphone Features
The Garmin Drive™ app allows your device to receive smart notifications and live information, such as live traffic data and weather information.
- Garmin® voice-activated navigation
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Allows you to use voice commands to search for locations and addresses, start routes with turn-by-turn directions, place hands-free phone calls, and more (Voice-Activated Features).
- Amazon Alexa skills and features
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Provides access to many Amazon Alexa features, such as playing music, checking the weather, or listening to the news (Voice-Activated Features).
- Live traffic data
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Sends real-time traffic data to your device, such as traffic incidents and delays, construction zones, and road closings (Traffic).
- Weather information
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Sends real-time weather forecasts, road conditions, and weather radar to your device (Viewing the Weather Forecast).
- Smart Notifications
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Displays phone notifications and messages on your device. This feature is not available for all languages.
- Hands-Free calling
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Allows you to place and receive phone calls using your device, and allows you to use the device as a hands-free speaker phone. If the selected language supports the voice command feature, you can place calls using voice commands.
- Send locations to device
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Allows you to send locations from your smartphone to your navigation device.
- Foursquare® check in
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Allows you to check in to Foursquare locations using your navigation device (Checking in with Foursquare).