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	• Garmin nüvi 670 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator Garmin Garmin average customer review:based on 130 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Garmin Nuvi 670 works well

I have used the Nuvi 670 on one trip of about 1400 miles. The product works well. The user interface is straightforward, and the navigation aids work about as well as any of these products. I have used several, and none of them are any better than thier map database, which is usually good, but ocassionally there is a bit of a flaw - usually something benign, like indicating a turn to go straight along the same section of highway, or something like that. I found the FM transmitter used to hear the voice on your car radio to be no better than other such FM transmitters that I have used with my i-Pod ... not very good. Using the headphone jack and a jumper cable to the line in on my stereo worked very well, however, and I can use the 670's built-in MP3 player to listen to music while waiting for navigation voice prompts.

I was pleased that the 670 allows setting Favorites via latitude and longitude entries, as I have had to do that a couple of times.

One feature that I was not really very aware of when I bought the unit was the capability for a language translator add-on. The 670 came with a 'lite' version. After trying the lite version for a bit, I bought the full version from the Garmin web site. I look forward to using it on an upcoming trip to Europe.

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It's first European trip was a success!Q

We bought this product as a gift for our friends to assist them in their 40th anniversary trip to Europe. In their return, one of the first things they said was "how practical and how useful" their GPS was in Europe, especially in England.

Apparently, at practicality and ease of use departments it beat the in-dash product that came with their luxury automobile.

Sounds like we picked the right product for the right purpose...

great product, less complications

great product, only freezes from time to time when cell phone is conected. other than that it's a great product. I've been able to us it as an MP3 player by conecting it through the radio transmiter. also I been able to access my phone book on my cell phone through it, as well as dialling numbers off of the navigation.

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Nice GPS, but ...

I bought my nuvi 670 before my Austria trip. One of the main reason I took this one was the built-in map of Europe. It works well in cities like Vienna as it supposed to. So it is a good product.

This is my second GPS. Compared to my old Mio Digiwalk, I don't think the software of nuvi 670 is designed well. The following is a list of blunders:

1. The list of "favorites" is short and easily run-out, same as "recently found"

2. When you go to "favorites" and touch a place you stored, there is only two options: either "back" or "go". If you want to "set location" and search things arround, you have to go all the way back and start from "view map" and painstakingly drag the map to that location. This is one of the most stupid blunders.

3. While driving, my Mio always provides a sign of the next move (turn left, right, etc), and Nuvi doesn't until getting near the turing point. I would certainly like to know that earlier.

4. Garmin wasted the big screen by providing so little information on it. My Mio has a 2.7" screen and shows a lot more, such as battery meter, speed limit, distance to destination, and next turn, all missing in nuvi. For example, when I want to check battery while walking in Vienna, I had to go back to "home" screen to see it.

5. It appears that there is no place to store a list of contacts. I can put my friends info in my Mio, but not on nuvi.

6. The travel kit misses an extremely important feature: alarm clock. My Mio always reliably wakes me up when I am on trip. How can the Garmin engineers forget this one in their travel kit?

7. When I play MP3 music on my Mio, it automatically turn-off the screen to save battery and turn it on when it is needed. Whoever designed nuvi 670 MP3 player needs to be demoted for missing this simple battery saving feature.

8. It is nice to have FM transmiter. But the quality of music broadcast from nuvi is lousy. My suspision is that the transmitter is too weak.

9. The flip-up antenna is a bad feature in pedestrian mode. I like Mio that hides the antenna. Also, Mio provides a wrist band to make it easier to walk with it. However, you have to hold your nuvi with the stupid antenna sticking up while walking.

To be fair, nuvi offers some better features than Mio, such as text-to-voice that tells you the street name and the building is "on right". The Euro map is important for inter-continental travelers. So I'd like to give it a four-star rating. It could be easily a 5-star if only the Garmin hired smarter software engineers. Those people wasted a fine hardware.

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So far so good

Ordered for outside sales work. Have built-in GPS in my personal car which is proprietary for Cadillac so my comparison is to that unit. Has not let me down yet. I did not buy this unit for handsfree phone so have not tried that feature yet. Gets very close to the destination. I have used it in Texas, Oklahoma and New York. Every set of directions were right on. Has only sent me out of the way by 2 blocks for a u-turn. Only issues...wish it had a better temporary mounting surfaces for rental car usage. Sometimes does not let me zoom in/out far enough to really see the details. Could use more POI's and alternative ways to input your destination.

Overall, very good product. New Garmins are voice activated and that seems like a great feature. Not interested in that, choose this one.

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