Garmin nüvi 650 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator

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Like Having the Yellow Pages for Every City With You (But Better!)

Our first GPS

Wonderful GPS Unit

great unit

bishopc

Garmin nüvi 650 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator

Manufacturer: Garmin
ProductGroup: CE
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Product Features:

Personal Travel Assistant comes preloaded with maps for U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico

Super-bright, 4.3-inch widescreen display for improved viewing, day or night

Includes automatic routing, 3D/2D map viewing, and turn-by-turn voice directions

Built-in travel and entertainment tools include digital music player, JPEG viewer, currency converter, and more

Measures 4.9 x 2.9 x 0.9 inches (WxHxD) and weighs 6.2 ounces

ASIN: B000OH63MI

Amazon.com Product Description

With a gorgeous widescreen display, the Garmin nüvi 650 GPS Personal Travel Assistant is your answer to the call of adventure. A sleek navigator and a keen travel assistant, the nüvi 650 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. Step up to the nüvi 660 if you want to take advantage of Bluetooth connectivity, an integrated traffic receiver, and an FM transmitter.

The nüvi 650 features a colorful widescreen and is preloaded with highly detailed City Navigator NT road maps.

The device includes many entertainment and travel tools.

A 4.3-inch display with a touch screen interface makes it easy to select destinations, play MP3s, and more.

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 device comes ready to go with automatic routing, 3D or 2D map perspective viewing, and turn-by-turn voice directions that speak street names. It also supports 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 an optional FM TMC traffic receiver. If you choose this add-on feature, The nüvi 650 will receive alerts about traffic tie-ups and road construction that might lie ahead on your route.

The nüvi 650 includes many "must-have" entertainment and travel tools, including digital music and audio book playback, a JPEG picture viewer, currency converters, and more. All these great features make the nüvi 650 a complete Personal Travel Assistant.

Note: Optional software for language translation, detailed travel guides, and savings programs allow you to customize your nüvi to fit your travel needs.

What's in the Box
nüvi 650 GPS navigation system, preloaded City Navigator North America NT data, vehicle suction cup mount, vehicle power cable, dashboard disk, USB cable, and quick reference guide.

Customer Reviews:

Like Having the Yellow Pages for Every City With You (But Better!).......2007-12-30

I did a tremedous amount of comparison research (including Consumer Reports, GPS review web sites, and Amazon reader reviews) before deciding on the Garmin 650. I was looking for a GPS that had a 4.3 inch screen, spoken street names, was reliable and accurate, was pocket-sized, and wouldn't cost me a fortune. Amazon had the 650 for a great price before Christmas so I bought two, one for my 60-something parents (who had never used a GPS before) and one for myself. After doing a brief run-through with my parents on how to use it, add favorite locations, etc., they were off and driving! They have had no problems with the 650's easy-to-use screens. The arrival time is always right on, and the spoken directions are clear and given with enough lead time that you can exit or slow down for the coming turn with no problem. The spoken road names make it absolutely clear which road you should turn on and it eliminates the need to look at the screen to see the name of the road. Due to its small size (slightly larger than a deck of cards), when we arrive at our destination, I remove the 650 from its mount and slip it into my purse.

The other thing I really like about the Garmin is the extensive Points of Interest listings (such as restaurants, hotels, hospitals, amusement parks, Post Offices, etc.). It is like having the Yellow Pages for every city with you at all times but better! If you want to go to a Point of Interest, the 650, unlike the Yellow Pages, will tell you exactly how to get there. This is very useful when you are somewhere unfamiliar and are looking for a restaurant, for instance. You simply scroll through the restaurants in that city (you can search by type of food to make it quicker to scroll through), choose the one you want, and hit "GO" to get the directions. The phone number is also included in the listing, so you can call ahead to make reservations if you like. You can also enter the name of a favorite store, and it will give you all locations of that store near you, mileage from where you are, etc. This came in handy at Christmas when I was looking for a certain item and couldn't find it. Rather than driving to all the stores and/or calling information for the numbers for local stores, I simply searched for stores near me and called them from 650's Points of Interest listings. What a time (and gas) saver!

Garmin also has the "Garmin Garage" available on their web site. You can download different vehicles to make your road trip more fun, such as a convertible sports car, an SUV, a boat, a Christmas light, etc. We downloaded a blue-nosed reindeer for our Christmas trips. It's a fun little extra, very simple to download and install, and totally free.

Overall, I would recommend the Garmin 650 wholeheartedly for anyone due to its simplicity and accuracy, plus it is a lot of fun! However, I would recommend buying the Bean Bag Mount that Amazon sells separately rather than using the windshield mount that comes with the unit. The Bean Bag Mount is much easier and quicker to use.

Our first GPS.......2007-12-29

The screen is great, and the vocals are surprisingly good (I was expecting to hear directions from Stephen Hawking). After a few test runs that always favored surface streets over freeways, I poked around in the not-terribly-complicated (but without much of an owner's manual, still a bit obtuse) menus and finally switched from the default shortest-route option to fastest-route. The screen is visible in all light conditions. We have bluetooth in the car, so we didn't need that. The sound quality is fine for the voice, but nothing like high-fidelity, not to mention that without a memory card, you won't get very many mp3's on there. All in all, we're happy with the 650.

Wonderful GPS Unit.......2007-12-29

I placed this review on CNET as well, but thought it would be worth adding on Amazon too.

I've read many reviews regarding the Garmin's, Tom-Tom's, Magellan, and other GPS units, and finally decided on the Garmin. This is a great unit and I am glad that I decided on this for my purchase.

There are several key factors that make this a great product:

1. Screen - Bright in broad daylight, big at 4.3", easy to use touchscreen

2. Interface - Simple to use, especially for those who aren't tech savy

3. Favorites - You can save your favorite addresses and name them in the system so you can plan routes from often used addresses over and over (I can't believe how many reviews I read that said Garmin didn't have this - they obviously didn't know how to use the unit).

4. Points of interests - Lots of points of interest to look up as you travel along your route.

5. Reroutes - Quickly reroutes you if you miss a turn or need to get around traffic - a matter of seconds.

6. Satellite reception - Awesome - finds satellites in seconds and has great reception even in structures.

7. Variety of map views - The 650 has both 2D and 3D map views, giving you a variety of ways of looking at your route. This is helpful in trip planning.

8. Clear voice instructions - The route instructions are loud and easy to hear, even on the freeway.

Cons:

1. No zip code lookup - This is the one thing I wish Garmin would add to their nav system. Garmin has you input the state, then city, then address every time when inputting new addresses. It often finds the state, city, and address for you after a few letters, but it still would be much easier with a zip code feature. I think they may add this in the near future as most GPS systems do have this feature. It isn't a deal breaker, however, because of the overall performance of the system.

Things you'll want to buy:

1. Carrying case to protect the unit (Garmin makes one)
2. A/C adapter if you want to charge it in a wall outlet (in my opinion, it isn't necessary, since it comes with both a car charger and a USB cord for charging it on your computer).
3. Friction mount for the car if you don't want to use the suction cup mount (Garmin makes one).

Updating the unit - Garmin offers a utility on their website for updating the unit's software. The latest updates were already on the unit, but it is nice to know that you can update it online.

All in all its a great unit. If you are looking for Bluetooth and Traffic updates, then buy the 660, however, it does cost about $150 more currently.

great unit.......2007-12-29

after a lot of research i decided on the nuvi 650...mainly due to the great reviews it got on amazon and cnet...after using it for a bit i figured i would write a review...in my opinion this unit is great...although...it does lack a few conveniences that i wish it had...for example...my friend's magellan gives him the alititude...and you also have the option to split your map screen so that half of the screen displays the upcoming turn and the other half shows you your position...the nuvi 650 does not have either of these...other than that i have no complaints...i dont need the 650 as a media player since i have an iPod...and i dont need it to have bluetooth technology since i have a bluetooth phone and a jawbone ear piece...as for its abilities as a gps unit...it recalculates your route faster than any other gps i've been able to use...it also picks up satellites very quickly when you first turn it on...the 650 also allows you to pick from a very wide variety of options when it comes to your route selection and many other things...i read one review saying that the voice guidance wasn't quite loud enough...but i listen to my music at pretty high volumes and the gps is loud enough to get my attention...so even if i cant make out what exactly is being said...its showing me the upcoming turn and how far until that turn...so i have no complaints in that regard... overall i would give this unit a 4.5 out of 5...but id rather give it a 5 than a 4 since amazon doesn't give the 4.5 option...i would deffinately recommend this unit to anyone who doesn't desire bells and whistles that most people already have in their pocket (bluetooth phone/etc)

bishopc.......2007-12-28

The 650 has been everything I expected it to be. I have advised other ministers and friends who have been searching for a GPS. I also received this product on a very timely basis.

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