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Editorial Review:

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.

Rating: - Love my Garmin
I really enjoy this product and like the fact that I can take it with me in any car and even use it when i’m walking somewhere (has walking feature). I also like the fact that you can stick new maps in it if you’re traveling out of the country. A friend of mine took hers to Italy and it was very helpful for her when they she trying to get around.

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Rating: - nuvi 650
I have owned this GPS for about 3 months now. Its great! Very fast and accurate. My only complaint is that it is a little slow to pick up the satellites upon startup.

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Rating: - Exactly what I wanted
It was tough choosing — but I opted for the “cheapest” of the 600 series. Realistically, I don’t care about Bluetooth, traffic, FM transmitter, carrying case, etc. I just wanted a good, no frills GPS — and it’s great at that job — big screen, bright, normally very accurate — and addressed most of the issues that I had with the earlier 320/330 Street Pilot series (which were no slouches). I used the money that I saved (and ocassionally Amazon does have this unit on sale) to buy the bean bag mount — which is also excellent — doesn’t block view through windshield — easy to remove from the car, etc. As far as I’m concerned, Garmin couldn’t do much better value-wise than the 650 + bean bag mount.

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Rating: - over all i’m pleased with the product
The only reason i haven’t rated it a perfect 5, is due to the fact that at times, even when completely still and in plain view of the sky, the GPS unit will take 1-2 full minutes to lock on to the satellite. At times the routes provides make no sense.. and seem unnecessarily long. That may be a problem with all Garmin units, so i can’t fault this specific model. I upgraded to the 2009 Maps a couple days after buying it. I wasn’t even aware they had come out with anything beyond the 08 maps. But that’s my fault for not keeping myself updated. so all in all, i will stick with 4/5 stars. Only because i wouldn’t call it perfect.

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Rating: - Very handy, a little quirky
The Garmin is incredibly easy to use right out of the box, and very handy for finding your way around. The only negative: sometimes the device has trouble locating the satellite, so you have to wait (or drive around the old-fashioned way).