Garmin nüvi 650 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
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Manufacturer: GarminBrand: Garmin
Edition: Electronics
Audio: English (Original Language)
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Model: Nuvi 650
Publisher: Garmin
Studio: Garmin
Music Label: Garmin
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
- Bracketron UFM-300-BX Nav-Pack Weighted GPS Dash Mount/Carrying Case
- Garmin Suction Cup Mount with 12-Volt Adapter for Nuvi 660 (010-10935-02)
- NAVGEAR Universal Dash Mount
- Garmin GDB 50 MSN Direct Receiver
- Case Logic GPSS-4 Professional GPS Travel Kit (Dark Blue)
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Customer Review: Don't waste your money on overpriced Garmin
Summary: 2 Stars
After reading SO many good reviews about this product, I decided to buy it and see if it lived up to the hype and planned on returning my Magellan 4040 if it did, in fact, meet my expectations. Let me say that it fell drastically short.
One of the main reasons I purchased this unit was because the maps looked incredibly easy to read. I usually wear sunglasses while I'm driving so I needed a bright, clear GPS to read. I will say that Garmin does a good job in this department. However, it lacks in almost every other area. If you are on the fence between a Magellan and a Garmin, please go with the Magellan!!!! Here is why.
-The magellan has a much nicer interface and is WAY more user friendly. The touch screen is extremely responsive. With the Garmin, I had to pretty much pound my fingers into the screen to get a response. The Magellan only needs a light tap.
-Garmin does not automatically blur out letters as you are typing to make data entry faster. Magellan does this, and also guesses the city and street you are typing. Garmin will guess the city but will not blur out any letters. Also, *very important* Garmin does not have a zip code look up. I find this very useful with the Magellan since it saves me from entering in a long city name.
-Garmin's map screen tells you the absolute bare bones minimum. It does not even have a compass on the screen to tell you which direction you are traveling!!! Magellan has a nice little orange box in the top left corner of the map screen that tells you which direction you are traveling. If you are someone who has no sense of direction, I would think this would be an important and necessary component. Garmin will tell you which direction you are traveling, but only if you push a button on the screen (lame!).
-Magellan shows in the bottom left corner which way your next turn will be. Garmin does not...yet again, you have to push a button to see which direction your next turn will be. As you approach the turn, the top of the screen will tell you "right on such and such" but while traveling, all it says is "Main street to Flores Ave". Is this a right onto flores ave or a left? You won't know until you get about 500 feet away from the turn, which means you could be in the wrong lane before the the GPS tells you which way to turn. With the Magellan, the next turn is ALWAYS displayed on the map screen, which gives you much more time to prepare.
-Map detail: Maps on the Magellan are MUCH more detailed than Garmin's. The maps may look all nice and pretty and colorful on Garmin, but it only shows an average of maybe 2 or 3 other major street names near you. Magellan will show many more street names near you without looking cluttered at all. I really like this feature. The maps on the Garmin can also look a little "cartoony" at times, if you will. The maps look great on the Garmin in the sunlight, which I applaud them for. The magellan daytime map can get a little washed out during the day, but with the voice prompts and the names of streets listed on the top and bottom of the screen, there should be no problem.
-TTS: The TTS on the Garmin is definitely a lot clearer than Magellan's, but that is definitely not to say that the Magellan is not understandable (it is very clear). Garmin also lets you choose what kind of voice you would like to hear (accents, male/female). Magellan has a woman's voice and still gets the job done just as well. On another note, the Garmin is incredibly verbose. I was actually starting to get annoyed at how often it told me a turn was coming up, how far away it was, and the street name. It would tell me about 3 times before the actual turn came up. SO annoying. Magellan does not constantly tell you (it tells you enough to get you where you need to go).
POI database: this is the one thing that annoyed me the most about the Garmin and is the MAIN reason I am returning this over-hyped product. When you type in a POI by name, it is RIDICULOUSLY slow at finding what is around you. I did a side by side comparison and typed the same POI name in both of the units and Magellan had finished MINUTES before the Garmin did. All you can see is the little rotating dots on the Garmin while it slowly and painfully grabs the POIs you looked for. I actually called Garmin support thinking my unit had a bug and that maybe that was the reason it lagged...nope. The man told me it takes that long because it needs time to search through its POI database. I dont know about you, but I don't want to sit and wait for literally 3-5 minutes for my GPS to find a common POI when I can have another unit find it in a matter of seconds. The POIs that are already listed, however, do come up a lot faster. This "lag" only happens when you search by name.
-route calculation: Both units are fast at recalculating a route should you miss a turn. However, Garmin tries to make you go BACK to your original route by making you do a square. Tsk tsk Garmin. Magellan will actually put you on a new route (WHICH IS WHAT A GPS IS SUPPOSED TO DO!) instead of trying to make you turn around and go back to the original one! Another little thing I like about the Magellan is that on your highlighted route, it has several blue arrows indicating the direction you need to be traveling. Garmin has one huge white arrow, which you sometimes can't even see (in 3D mode) if the turn is further ahead. So all you see is a pink line, and you have no clue which way it's pointing. A neat thing about the Garmin is that you can go on their website and download different vehicles to make it a little more fun - the Magellan simply has an arrow, which I'm fine with.
-Detour/routing: Magellan asks you each time you go somewhere whether you want the fastest, shortest, most use of highways or least use of highways. Garmin does not ask this, you have to dig through menus to find this option and it uses it for all routes. If you want to change it for each route, again, you have to dig through menus to find it. Also, if you want to take a detour, the Garmin will choose one for you. With the Magellan, when you ask for a detour, you have the choice of avoiding the next 3, 5, or 20 miles. Garmin does not bother to ask you, it just does it.
-When you are approaching a turn, all Garmin does is babble on and on. Magellan's screen will automatically split, showing you the map on the right side and a picture of what your upcoming turn looks like on the left side. I absolutely love this feature. If you want to see this in Garmin, you have to press the screen while you are driving before your turn comes up. Magellan saves you this hassle. Also, on the top of the Magellan map screen, it says the name of the street you are currently on. At the bottom of the screen, it says the name of the street you need to turn on next. Garmin does not do this, it just has one bar at the top that jumbles every single turn/street name/etc into that one single bar.
Trip planner - again, something Garmin lacks. You can only insert one stop on a route, whereas you can plan an entire trip with multiple stops with the Magellan.
Overall, if you want cool map colors, voices, and cars, get the Garmin. If you want a GPS to do what it's supposed to do and be the most helpful while doing so, get a Magellan.
Description of Garmin nüvi 650 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator
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. |
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.
Device | Screen Size inches (W x H) | Included Maps | Text-to-Speech (Directions in Real Street Names) | Traffic | Bluetooth | Media | FM Transmitter (audio through car stereo system) | Multi-Point Routing | Battery life (hours) | ||
Cont. U.S., Hawaii, and Puerto Rico | AK and Canada | Europe | |||||||||
| nüvi 650 | 3.81 x 2.25 |  | | | FM (with optional receiver) | Photos, MP3s | up to 7 | ||||
| nüvi 205 | 2.8 x 2.1 | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with optional receiver) | Photos | up to 4 | ||||||
| nüvi 205w | 3.81 x 2.25 | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with optional receiver) | Photos | up to 4 | ||||||
| nüvi 255 | 2.8 x 2.1 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with optional receiver) | Photos | up to 4 | ||||
| nüvi 255w | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with optional receiver) | Photos | up to 4 | ||||
| nüvi 260w | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | Photos | up to 5 | |||||
| nüvi 265T | 2.8 x 2.1 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | | Photos | up to 4 | |||
| nüvi 265WT | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | | Photos | up to 4 | |||
| nüvi 275T | 2.8 x 2.1 | | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | | Photos | up to 4 | ||
| nüvi 285WT | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (receiver included; 3 months free); | | Photos | up to 4 | |||
| nüvi 465T | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | | Photos | | up to 4 | ||
| nüvi 755T | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 4 | ||
| nüvi 760 | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with optional receiver) | | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 5 | |
| nüvi 765T | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 4 | |
| nüvi 775T | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 4 |
| nüvi 780 | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (receiver included; 3 months free); FM (with optional receiver) | | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 5 | |
| nüvi 785T | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (receiver included; 3 months free); FM (with optional receiver) | | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 4 | |
| nüvi 850 | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with optional receiver) | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 4 | ||
| nüvi 855 | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with optional receiver) | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 4 | ||
| nüvi 885T | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (receiver included; 3 months free); FM (with optional receiver) | | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 4 | |
| nüvi 1200 | 2.8 x 2.1 | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with optional receiver) | Photos | up to 4 | |||||
| nüvi 1250 | 2.8 x 2.1 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with optional receiver) | Photos | up to 4 | ||||
| nüvi 1260T | 2.8 x 2.1 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | | Photos | up to 4 | |||
| nüvi 1300 | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with optional receiver) | Photos | up to 4 | |||||
| nüvi 1350 | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with optional receiver) | Photos | up to 4 | ||||
| nüvi 1350T | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | Photos | up to 4 | ||||
| nüvi 1370T | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | | Photos | up to 4 | ||
| nüvi 1390T | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | | Photos | up to 4 | |||
| nüvi 1490T | 4.4 x 2.5 | | | | MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (receiver included; Lifetime Traffic) | | Photos | | up to 4 | ||
| nüvi 1690 | 3.81 x 2.25 | | | | NAVTEQ Traffic, 2 years free (Garmin nüLink! service) | | Photos | | up to 4 | ||
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