Format:Cd Platforms:Windows Xp Professional, Windows Xp Home Edition, Windows 2000 Media:Electronics Autographed:No Memorabilia:No Batteries Included:No Operating System:N/A Native Resolution:480 x 272 Display Size:4.3 Includes MP3 Player:1 Shipping Weight (lbs):0.4 Dimensions (in):2.6 x 2.6 x 2.6 nv:Type:Car Kit Waypoints:500 with name and graphic symbol Trip Computer:Average Speed Trip Computer:Resettable Odometer Trip Computer:Timers Trip Computer:Maximum Speed Inputs:12/24 Vdc Display:Color Touch Screen:Yes Voice:Yes Battery Life:7 hours Antenna:Flip-up patch Legal Disclaimer:Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Amazon.com nuvi 650 With a gorgeous widescreen display, the Garmin nAvi 660 GPS Personal Travel Assistant is your answer to the call of adventure. A sleek navigator and a keen travel assistant, the nAvi 660 is preloaded with highly detailed City Navigator NT road maps for the entire United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. This map database features nearly six million points of interest (POIs), including hotels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, and attractions, and the data is provided by NAVTEQ, a world leader in premium-quality mapping.This preloaded navigator brings all this fantastic map data to your fingertips with a super-bright, 4.3-inch widescreen display for improved map viewing, day or night. Use the touch screen interface to select destinations, look up POIs, and play your favorite MP3s and audio books. The display also helps you control hands-free calling, traffic alerts, and the FM transmitter, all from the screen of your personal travel assistant.
Which nAvi is Best for You?: Click here to see a quick, simple comparison of features for all Garmin nuvi GPS navigators
Wider screen lets you see more of what's around. Compare these actual size views of a 3-inch (diagonal) screen
and a 4.3-inch diagonal widescreen
Widescreen -- See Better, See More The widescreen format gives you 70% more actual screen area than a 3.5-inch screen. Primarily this translates into a better view of the area through which you are driving. This is especially useful in showing you what parks, restaurants, ATM, gas stations, etc. are nearby, or in letting you know whether a detour is a good idea. Also, the device itself is larger, meaning controls on the screen are more widely spaced and somewhat easier to push.
FM Transmitter -- Hear Better, Hear More Instead of straining your ears to hear turn-by-turn directions or your favorite MP3s, you can enjoy wireless FM audio transmission via the nAvi 660's wireless FM transmitter. Tune your car's radio to the appropriate station and you'll hear all the nAvi's audio, including voice prompts, MP3s, audio books, and more, directly through your vehicle's stereo system. The nAvi 660 includes many "must-have" entertainment and travel tools, including digital music and audio book playback, JPEG picture viewer, currency converters, and more. All these great features make the nAvi 660 a complete Personal Travel Assistant.
First Rate Map Data The nAvi 660 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps, including a hefty POI database with hotels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more. Simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, and nAvi takes you there with 2D or 3D maps and turn-by-turn voice directions. Garmin gets its map data from NAVTEQ, a world leader in premium-quality mapping.
In addition, the nAvi 660 accepts custom points of interest (POIs), such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs
Important note about map updates: Due to our high volume of sales, almost every Garmin portable GPS navigator sold by Amazon.com will come with the most recent map version. If you ever do need a map update, you can purchase one from Amazon.com at our Garmin Store.
Hands-Free Calling In more and more places, it is becoming illegal to use cell phones while driving without a hands-free kit. The nAvi 660's Bluetooth capability, microphone and speaker lets match it to any bluetooth-capable phone to make hands-free mobile phone calls. Simply dial the phone number with the nAvi's touch screen keypad to make a call on a compatible phone. To answer an incoming call, just tap the screen and speak into the built-in microphone. Making and taking calls on the road has never been easier, or safer. In addition, Garmin makes it a breeze to look-up and dial numbers from your personalized phone book or even tap into your cell phone's call history log.
Integrated FM Traffic Receiver
Steer clear of traffic with an integrated FM traffic receiver designed to receive alerts from TMC Clear Channel about traffic tie-ups and road construction that might lie ahead on your route. All you have to do is simply touch the screen to view traffic details and you'll be ready to detour around any problem area. And if you end up missing a turn, or you're forced into a detour that is not relayed through the traffic receiver, the nAvi's sophisticated automatic routing will get you back on track in no time.
In most areas, TMC Clear Channel traffic broadcasts are continuous a there's no waiting for scheduled traffic news updates or random alerts. Because traffic broadcasts are received via a "silent" FM data channel, you can still listen to music or news programming on your car radio without interference from incoming FM traffic data transmissions.
A 3-month subscription to TMC Clear Channel's Total Traffic Network is included with purchase of this device. For more information on subscription fees, coverage in individual cities, and traffic data networks in the United Kingdom and Europe, check the Garmin website.
Easy To Use Interface Garmin's interface is a key to their success and one of the things that makes their devices such a pleasure to use. Simple controls and sub-screens make it easy to enter or search for destinations and get data about your trip.
Beyond Navigation
Browse your stored pictures with an easy-to-use JPEG viewer.
A handy MP3 player lets you play songs stored on SD memory cards.
nAvi 250W accepts custom points of interest (POIs). View larger.
Navigation is just the beginning. The nAvi 660 features travel tools including JPEG picture viewer, MP3 player, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. It also comes with Garmin Lock, an anti-theft feature, and configurable vehicle icons that let you select car-shaped graphics to show your location on the map.
This device is compatible with optional content plug-ins available via SD card, such as the Garmin Travel Guides and Garmin SaversGuide provide detailed data for attractions and information on nearby merchants offering discounts, so you can customize nAvi for your travel needs
Garmin has also added the ability for customers to add custom points of interest (POI’s) from third parties such as school zones and safety cameras.
Trick Your GPS Ride
Custom vehicle icons let you ride in style, at least inside your GPS. See more icon options
All Garmin nAvis support configurable vehicle icons. These fun, customized car-shaped icons come in a variety of colors to add a personal touch to your vehicle's position on the map.
With this GPS system on board you'll be prepared to steer clear of traffic with the integrated FM TMC traffic receiver. The nAvi 770 is designed to receive alerts about traffic tie-ups and road construction that might lie ahead on your route. All you have to do is simply touch the screen to view traffic details and you'll be ready to detour around any problem area. And if you end up missing a turn, or you're forced into a detour that is not relayed through the traffic receiver, the nAvi's sophisticated automatic routing will get you back on track in no time.
What's in the Box nAvi 660 GPS navigation system, preloaded City Navigator North, America NT data, vehicle suction cup mount, A/C charger, carrying case, FM traffic receiver/12-volt adapter with 3-month free trial subscription, dashboard disk, USB interface cable, sample language guide content (preloaded), sample travel guide, sample MP3s (preloaded), sample audio books (preloaded), owner's manual, and a quick reference guide.
Notes
Optional software for language translation, detailed travel guides, and savings programs allow you to customize your nAvi to fit your travel needs
The FM transmitter feature is only available in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Like most USB Mass Storage Devices, the nAvi is not compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me.
Great while the warranty lasts. A brick, once the warranty runs out.October 15, 2008 The GPS worked flawlessly for at least a year - it was a bit of a marriage-saver, to be honest - and my wife and I are unanimous in that. But shortly after the warranty expired, the unit became completely useless due to what appears to be a permanent loss of satellite reception. As the Garmin website instructed me, I updated the software, performed a system reset - nothing worked. I called Tech Support, who were unaware of the problem and suggested that I send the GPS to them for repair. Since the warranty expired, the charge would be $200. I said "thanks, but no thanks!" (No, really!)
A quick search on the interwebs turned up many, many similar cases - a common scenario is that the Nuvi 660 unit just a couple of months outside of warranty permanently loses satellite reception and becomes a brick. One theory that I saw was that a diode between the antenna and the internals of the unit burns out, which means that the signal from the antenna never makes it in.
I'll be searching for a new GPS and in all likelihood, it will NOT be a Garmin.
Great GPSOctober 14, 2008 The Garmin nuvi 660 is a great GPS. I bought it for my mother-in-law. I was not familiar with GPS units and was concerned she would have problems "figuring it out" and using it. I got it a week ahead of her birthday, downloaded the latest maps (received great CS from Garmin) and had used it a few times so that I was familiar enough with it that I could answer her questions when she called. But after spending 10-15 minutes initially, she was using the 660 like a pro. She was even using the Blue tooth to connect to her Moto krazer cell phone.
A complaint I had is that the RF modulator did not seem to be powerful enough. I could not find a FM setting that was static free. Another small issue to note is that the microphone for using blue tooth with the cell phone isn't great. You wouldn't want to carry on a normal conversation for 10's of minutes, but it is useful for short conversations.
Overall a great and amazing machine. Just a few short comings that are not useless, but could work better.
only one thing wrongOctober 14, 2008 I bought this for my husband for his birthday. Since I thought a car charger was included, I wondered why I kept being offered one as an accessory. When it arrived, we found the charger that was included did not belong with the garmin I bought. How strange is that? Now I do have to buy something I thought was included. Otherwise, we like it.Garmin nuevi 670 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator
Best GPS for the price and featuresOctober 13, 2008 I recently relocated to the East coast and was having a hard time going around and visiting family in other states having to print out every address on Google maps or MapQuest. I was going to pull the trigger on the 205w that was at $[...] in the latest Costco coupons book. I started to do some research to compare prices and features until I got to the 350. Then I noticed a lot of forums comparing 350 vs. 66 This is my first GPS but I love the bigger screen (brighter), the text to speech is the best thing. Instead of just saying turn right in .2 miles it actually tells you the street names. You can't go wrong with this. It does synchronize your Bluetooth cell phone so you can drive and talk using your car speakers. And this device was sold a year ago for $[...]. It's still more than $[...] for a refurbished one. So this is the best deal for a new unit. You should be aware that the device comes with the suction cup, carrying case and 12-Volt adapter so there's no need to buy them separately. The only thing I will definitively encourage people is to buy the auto charger with this unit, it will work for 2-3 hours max with a full battery and then it will turn off. You don't want that for sure. This will be the only cons I found yet. If you need one ASAP this is the one... lowest price it has been (around$[...]). If you can wait I bet this price will go lower....at least $[...].
Garmin GPSOctober 13, 2008 The Garmin nuvi 660 is a great product. If you can find it , since it is discontinued, you will find it also at a great price. The Bluetooth feature is a plus.
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A handy MP3 player lets you play songs stored on SD memory cards.
nAvi 250W accepts custom points of interest (POIs). View larger.
