Garmin nüvi 670 4.3-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator
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Customer Review: Awesome value
Summary: 5 Stars
Got the 670 for a trip to europe, given it had pre-installed maps of europe and North America. Didn't bother to update the european maps (saved the free update for North America) before we went on a two week trip with travels thru southern England and Normandy/Brittany/Paris in France.
Device was INVALUABLE, and a GREAT VALUE. For only about $70 more than a plain-vanilla nuvi 250, you get widescreen, more features, a case, and an AC charger - useful if you plan to use it as a pedestrian in cities.
I was particularly impressed when it took us from Bayeux to Mont St-Michelle to Le Mans in a route that included a series of country roads I would have never found or been able to navigate on a map. Only rarely was there a road that wasn't on the GPS, and only once a one-way street that hadn't been correctly identified. The only navagational downside is that the audio prompts couldn't quite keep up with the speed of decisionmaking in roundabouts - watch the screen to keep yourself from making an extra loop.
It was also a great aid while walking in Paris, locating ourselves and finding a pedestrian route to a location or the nearest metro station.
ps. Also used on the Eurostar train, where I recorded a max speed of 183 MPH!
Customer Review: Long Term Review - Had it since they came out...
Summary: 2 Stars
I've had my Nuvi 670 since they first came out - it was very expensive at the time, so I expected a lot from it.
I was dissapointed to find that the traffic info was subscription based - and at a rip off price at that.
I was also dissapointed that the maps seemed to be out of date right from the get go, and they expected me to PAY for new ones!!
RX sensitivity never seemed to be as good as my older Garmin units or the Pioneer AVIC unit I installed in one of my other cars. Slight overcast skys or clouds seemed to kill the GPS satellite reception.
The internal battery crapped out on me in less than a year. It lasts for about a minute before shutting off these days.
I tried to nav from San Jose to an address in Petaluma today. No joy. The audio kept going into distortion and then cutting out completely. After a while, it stopped giving me any audible directions at all. No amount of powering off/on made any difference - the thing is toast. Of course, there's no warranty on it any more....
Overall, I'm not a happy customer. Will seriously look elsewhere (i.e. not Garmin) for my next unit. All in all, I feel like I wasted a grand on this one. Better luck next time.
Customer Review: Great device, but POI database totally inaccurate
Summary: 2 Stars
Man, what a disappointment! The Nuvi 660/670 is a beautiful device - a sleek design with an excellent screen, and great position accuracy. Since this is our second Garmin (we currently own a Quest), we were mainly interested in a GPS device with an up to date US & European point of interest (POI) database. The Nuvi 670 seemed to fit the bill perfectly given its large POI database.
But this is exactly where the device failed. We tried more than 25 POIs in Atlanta, GA where we're currently based. The 670 was unable to successfully guide us to a single POI correctly. We tried various well known shops that have been around for at least 5 years, e.g. Publix, Toys-R-Us, Wal-Mart (including a Wal-Mart Superstore that has been around for 10 years), Target, Barnes & Nobles, etc. Either it did not know that the shop existed, or it guided us to a non-existent shop. The same applied to fuel stations.
If we provided it with an address it worked like a dream and the accuracy was great. But the POI database proved to be totally useless. Fortunately Amazon's after sale support is brilliant and they allowed us to return the Nuvi 670.
Oh yes, Garmin has no after hour support...
Customer Review: Nuvi 670
Summary: 3 Stars
Don't throw those paper maps away just yet! I've had my 670 for a couple of weeks now and my sister in law has had a 650 for about the same length of time. Hers' doesn't navigate any better than mine, so it's not a defective unit. I bought the Nuvi so that I could get from point A to point B as quickly as possible. The problem is that in at least 1/2 the cases, Nuvi takes something other than the best route. It may not be obvious when you don't know where you're going, but when you know the best route, Nuvi may well direct you far out of the way. Case in point, last week I drove 100 miles or so on a route that I've taken several times in the past. When the Nuvi directed me the wrong way down the nearby highway, I rejected its' routing in favor of the route I had taken in the past. The trip took me 1 hour 50 min. On the way home, I followed Nuvi's route and took 2 hours 10 min to get home. Nuvi had rejected an interstate highway that went in the general direction of my destination in favor of a state highway which went thru the middle of several cities complete with many stop lights. It also had me backtrack 15 miles in the wrong direction on the interstate to pick up the slower highway!Customer Review: Worked great in Europe
Summary: 5 Stars
I just returned from a two week trip to Europe where I used the Nuvi 670 to drive through Belgium, Holland and Poland. It worked perfectly taking us from the country-sides of Belgium and Holland to our hotels in the narrow, one-way, unpronounceable streets of Brussels and Amsterdam. I can't imagine trying to do this with a map. Certainly, my wife and I wouldn't be on speaking terms if we had. Based on a lot of the reviews here, I am not sure that I would have bought one. I am never certain whether the Garmin units they bought were defective or whether the users are defective. I wouldn't hesitate, based on my own experience, to buy and use a Garmin device for travel in Europe.
My only criticisms of Garmin are that I think it is ridiculous that they don't offer free updates to BOTH the North American and European maps on the x70 units that come with dual maps. I also think Garmin GPS units have been overly "dumbed-down" since I bought my first Garmin several years ago. I used to be able to get elevation, the ability to pan out and see the entire route on one screen and many other features. Maybe you still can, but since they don't provide a detailed manual, who would know?