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Garmin nüvi 650 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator

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Manufacturer: Garmin
Catalog: CE
Media: Electronics
Includes batteries: 1
Model: Nuvi 650
Ean: 0753759070755
Upc: 753759070755
Native resolution: 480 x 272
Special Features: nv:Type^Receiver|Inputs^USB|Touch Screen^Yes|Voice^Yes|Expansion Slots^SD Card|Battery Type^Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery|Battery Life^7 hours
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Key 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
Compatible with:
Not Machine Specific
Professional Review:
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.


User Reviews:
 Rating 4   Written on August 11, 2008
   Summary: Better than the 250 series Nuvi's
PROS:
Wide screen
Bright display
Good text to speech
Cool add-ons (like speed camera markings)

CONS:
A bit dumb at navigation sometimes (tells you to take I-13 business instead of I-13)
Only charger is an in-car charger
Crappy GPS Windshield mount
No free updates online
No pouch to store it in


 Rating 5   Written on August 10, 2008
   Summary: Happy to ask directions!

I received a Garmin Nuvi 650 for Christmas and purchased one for my son-in-law's birthday. We are both thrilled with our new direction getter.
I am happy to recommend this product.


 Rating 5   Written on August 10, 2008
   Summary: great buy for price
Bought it for my wife for trip to LA. She loved it and was never lost in LA. Real nice big screen. The spoken street name is reason we chose this model. Other features.. blue tooth, mp3 player and other "bells-n-whistles" are features that we don't need/care thus were not factors in selecting the gps. Great price and was delivered early too!


 Rating 5   Written on August 9, 2008
   Summary: garmin nuvi 650
Great product, it works exactly as advertised. I can'y believe how intuitive it is. It probably saved my marriage(NOT REALY)but Ithink you understand my point. Buy the friction mount, it is worth the extra few dollars and it will not slide off your dash. All of the other positive reviews you may have read are 100% correct, this is a great navigating tool.

 Rating 3   Written on August 8, 2008
   Summary: My first GPS, decent but could be much better
I'm overly satisfied with my nuvi 650 but it could use some serious updates.

- The graphics quality is pretty bad. Line discontinuities, low frame rate, ugly icons. It might be the same on other GPS receivers but in the age of high technology, like the iPhone, this graphics looks very outdated. Garmin should hire a decent designer and a better software engineer to iron out these issues.
- I'm quite satisfied with the audio quality and the display contrast/brightness. Actually, I use the display on 40% brightness because on any higher setting the bright image is too distracting for me. The built in speaker is loud enough for me.
- The directions are good and the ETA is usually very accurate if there are no traffic jams.
- Build quality is very good. Looks sturdy.
- It usually finds the satellites within 15-20 seconds in my neighborhood in spite of the high rise buildings.
- I was very disappointed to discover that it doesn't show the speed limits and doesn't warn me when I'm speeding. I thought it's a basic feature included in all GPS receivers.
- It has so far found all the points of interest I was looking for. Seems to have a large POI database.
- The keyboard is terrible. Come on, this is the 21st century, people got used to the qwerty layout. Please don't try to force us into the alphabetic layout! It takes 3 times longer to type because of the insane keyboard layout. It should at least be an option.

All in all, the hardware seems to be excellent but the software looks very outdated and at places totally not ergonomic. It could use some new software features as well, like the speed limit warnings.

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Our price$249.99$13.22$24.42$14.76$18.31$12.37
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CatalogCECECECECECE
MediaElectronicsAccessoryAccessoryAccessoryElectronicsAccessory
Includes batteries1-----
ModelNuvi 650010-10823-01010-10908-00010-10723-00010-10723-06010-10723-02
Ean075375907075507537590616780753759067304075375905296607537590531160753759052980
Upc753759070755753759061678753759067304753759052966753759053116753759052980
Native resolution480 x 272-----
Special Featuresnv:Type^Receiver|Inputs^USB|Touch Screen^Yes|Voice^Yes|Expansion Slots^SD Card|Battery Type^Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery|Battery Life^7 hours-----
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