great product, less complications | Garmin nüvi 670 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator

Absolutely great!! | Garmin nüvi 670 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator

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highly recommended

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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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.

Absolutely great!!

I researched many different kinds of navigation systems for traveling overseas and by far the best one out there is the Garmin nuvi 670. It comes right out of the box ready to go with a full battery. The traffic updates are as current as the local AM stations with their traffic updates. I use the bluetooth technology on it to make phone calls and I found it to be very understandable on both ends. The only problem is that if you want to update your maps, which mine came with very up to date maps but Garmin gives you the opportunity to update a map for free so why not use it, the process took very long but this was understandable considering what was going on. The GPS had to upload an entire new map of the US which I would think would take a considerable amount of time. The mircophone and the speakers on it are both excellent. I used it over in Europe because that is the main reason why I decided on this unit over others, because of its European capabilities and I had absolutely no problems. I was able to tell right where I was at. It comes with a very nice leather carrying case and so I would just put it in my pocket and I would travel around and then when it was time to come back I would just tell it where I was staying or wanted to go and it got me there with no problems. The detour feature is great because I go a certain way to work everyday and it suggested another way, well after the first time it asked if I would like to save this route as the suggested route and so now it tells me if there are any traffice problems on the route that I take to work everyday. Overall an absolutely great GPS and I strongly suggest buying one for yourself!

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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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Great GPS for use in the US and Europe

We purchased this unit specifically because it has maps for both North America and Europe. We used it in Italy and France as well as stateside. It performed very well on both continents. Just one, very minor consideration: in certain conditions like while driving with open windows the speaker on our unit was not loud enough even with the volume set at 100%. Overall, it is a great device.

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