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.
Reviews for Garmin nüvi 650 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator:
I strongly recommend this product for people with the same requirements as me: just a navigation unit. I specifically did not care for the hands-free option or radio transmitter option - just a good navigation unit. Hands-free is great,but I don't want to have this in the car all the time. Radio transmitter is a great idea - but as in other ones I tried before,this one (so I've read) is no better. The quality just does not cut it for me. Bottom line: wide-screen,reliable,easy-to-use,awesome price,free 2009 maps,etc. What more could you want?
Note: I did extensive reading on other units before buying this one. Some are pretier and may have a few extra bells,but when it came to overall quality (not even price),this seemed to be the best choice.
This GPS has the potential to be way better with some hardware and software adjustments. I returned it in place of a IPAQ 310,let me say the screen alone sold me on that one,its super clear compared to the Garmin. Garmin has some nice navtec maps and guidance systems but they need to make their hardware more feature rich like a 800x600 led backlit screen,games,blue tooth,web browser,wifi more built in store space etc. I mean I know it sounds a bit weird to mention all this stuff but that's where small portable electronics are going,phones,cameras,a lot of media devices have converged these features into one neat box,all that differs is their hardware and software implementation. HP I believe implemented masterfully,directions and navigation on the Garmin are great but I want more!!
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
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.
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!
Garmin nüvi 650 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator 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