Nice GPS, but ... | Garmin nüvi 670 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator

Travel in Germany | Garmin nüvi 670 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator

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highly recommended

Garmin Nuvi 670

I love this GPS! It arrived just in the nick of time after I had it expedited. This one does so much. There's still accessories for me to buy.
Be careful if you put it on the FM transmitter option. You won't hear sound out of it's speakers which might make you think it's broken. Just go back and find the setting and switch it to auto output and select internal speakers to get your voice/sound back.

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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Travel in Germany

Bought this for my wife who will be in Germany for a year. It is preloaded with Europe and all of the North American maps. It is also Blue Tooth capable. This is the fourth Garmin GPS I have purchased and it is by far the best. Sure the maps aren't perfect but they are certainly the best available. Previous Nuvi models hid the instructions on the Nuvi itself. This one actually has the instructions on the CD in the box plus it is on the built-in Nuvi flash drive. All you have to do is charge the machine, read the instructions and you will be on your way to almost perfect destinations. All of my military and medical friends use Garmin equipment. As to the Blue Tooth - - - it is easier to pair with my cell phone than my Blue Tooth ear piece. This thing is fantastic. Hopefully I will hear positive feedback from my wife when she gets to Germany in about 3 weeks. After checking the Garmin website for a few icon updates (my wife liked the Black Pearl Ship icon best). I tried to borrow the Nuvi 670 but my wife has a habit of changing the subject. Oh well that's life.

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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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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...

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