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Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS
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3 Star Review

Reviewed by: Deji

Updated:06-27-08

Duration of ownership:18 Months

Strengths: Bluetooth, Text-to-speech, Ease of input

Weaknesses: Windshield mount is too fragile and finicky. Start-up could be quicker.

Overall Evaluation: Decent unit overall. The mount has just broken for the second time in about a year. I have also found the suction to be too poor to hold the unit when the windshield becomes too hot or two cold.
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4 Star Review

Reviewed by: wellsprop

Updated:07-20-08

Duration of ownership:10 Days

Strengths: The directions and way it tells you directions is very good. I like the adaptability of it.

Weaknesses: The speaker is very garbled and staticly and at times hard to understand. It lacks the capability of saving a route I have established vs the Nuvi route.

Overall Evaluation: Overall I think the Nuvi is a very good GPS although the sound problem should be corrected. The Nuvi gives you alerts of the turns and then again tells you when your turn is there. The function capability, restaurants, hotels, recreation areas, etc. are very helpful. I would recommend purchasing a Nuvi.
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4 Star Review

Reviewed by: braggingrights

Updated:06-16-08

Duration of ownership:30 Days

Strengths: easy to input data

Weaknesses: can't see whole route, must drive it to see it.

Overall Evaluation: I live in area with several multi year road closures, Nuvi doesn't know about them, so I have to avoid them on my own and then let Nuvi recalibrate. About to take a cross country trip and afraid I may run into similar problems elsewhere.
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5 Star Review

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Updated:06-07-08

Duration of ownership:4 Months

Strengths: Large display, very accurate, different voice accent commands, plenty of POIs and other places in memory.

Weaknesses: Volume a little weak - could be louder, some roads are not programmed, mounting suction cup useless.

Overall Evaluation: Owned since early February 2008.A solid and worthy device, but not completely perfect. A good example is that at least you know which intersections is best to make that turn onto a busier street or avoid - the GPS does not seem to have a clue where a traffic signal is located. It sure knew where you can make U-turns. I have used a Megellan in a rental car and it pretty much did the same thing a year ago in Utah.The voice commands can me much louder. A great feature when you can hear the spoken words. When the windows are open or someone is talking inside the car, forget it. Thankfully the directions are on the top of the display, but the purpose is to keep the eyes on the road.Mounting suction cup, well, sucks. Buy the static dash mounting mat from either Garmin or another brand. I own the Garmin version and it is worth every penny.I put the 660 through the paces just recently in central Florida for Orlando and Titusville (Shuttle launch). The 660 was near perfect in location of restaurants, attractions and hotels. For some reason, some older public roads on Merritt Island could not be found on the map and it showed us driving on unpaved area - freaky. Although it got us to the hotel in Titusville, the 660 was not content unless you drove to where it considered the final point. 98.5% of the locations and directions were accurate and found the POIs and restaurants without a problem. The 660 holds a charge well, but the car charging cord for lengthy travel times of 2+ hours will be needed. Better to be prepared than sorry.Software and firmware updates can easily be done and is accomplished in a matter of minutes. The software had to be downloaded from Garmin's website (http://www8.garmin.com/products/webupdater/howtoinstall.jsp).Oh yeah, the accent commands. You can change these in the set up. Select the female Australian or female English accent to egg on your better half. The 660 is a great GPS. Not perfect, but I have not used another make that was perfect anyhow. After four months there have been no faults at all. It's portability, reliability and intuitive ease of use makes me give it five stars. Highly recommended. If it knew short cuts I would give it six stars.
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5 Star Review

Reviewed by: rajannnair

Updated:05-29-08

Duration of ownership:21 Days

Strengths: FM Transmitter, Bluetooth, Picture viewer

Weaknesses: No Barometer & Altimeter

Overall Evaluation: Good GPS with most of what you can think of (or need). I strongle recommend to every body. Altimeter or Barometer is not a reqmt I just want to highlight. I Love this systemYou will too.
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5 Star Review

Reviewed by: dasc

Updated:02-18-08

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Text-to-speach, bluetooth integration, FM transmitter and quick start-up.

Weaknesses: Traffic Monitor is free for the first 3 months.

Overall Evaluation: This is the best navigation GPS out there. Quick start start-up time, good receiption even from my home. I can connect my Nokia 8801 using the bluetooth. The option to transmit music to your FM radio is great! SD slot comes in handy if you need some extra space.
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4 Star Review

Reviewed by: JohnL1972

Updated:01-02-08

Duration of ownership:1 Months

Strengths: Very accurate, seems solidly built

Weaknesses: FM transmission can be problematic especially in larger cities where in one part the FM band may not be used and few miles down the road it is. Downloading doesn't seem clear from their website.

Overall Evaluation: FM transmission could be better or a cable into the radio would solve that problem.Wish it would take the fastest route not the one that is always North, South, etc from where you are.Accessories seem pricey.
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4 Star Review

Reviewed by: devassocx

Updated:08-29-07

Duration of ownership:2 Months

Strengths: good maps, fm tranmitter to radio, stand alone audio, veryaccurate

Weaknesses: stand alone audio quality, mp3 files awkward to play, screen brightness in high light environment

Overall Evaluation: Used this unit extensively on a trip to Colorado from So. Ca.and back. Generally, it performed excellently. The car wasan '07 Magnum and the suction cup mount was a bit of a problem since it was hard to reach the unit due to the extreme slope of the windshield. The fm transmitter was useful but we had to keep changing the receiving station as we traveled due to interference.The unit is pretty pricey, especially for vacation only use, but I beleive it is one of the best units available.We had no problem locking on to the sats so the unit appears to be plenty sensitive.If you sign up for the recommended audio books program probably you won't have the problems we had. We used onlyfree mp3 books available on the web and since we haven't figured out how to make playlists yet we had to manually select the chapters which was pretty painful.All in all, I highly recommend this unit.
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4 Star Review

Reviewed by: betacopy

Updated:08-16-07

Duration of ownership:12 Months

Strengths: Big screen, voice navigation, automatically recalculates route, and most times it is quick to lock to satellites.

Weaknesses: Sometimes it gives strange routings. Traffic info is not very accurate.UPDATED (6/08): Problems with Bluetooth version 3.0 & 3.1.

Overall Evaluation: This is quite an upgrade to my old B&W magellan gps unit. It is a compact unit, but has a decent size screen. The volume level is good, but it had a hard time finding a clear FM signal in the Seattle area. Some of the streets and retail info is out of date. The bluetooth phone feature is good with a Blackberry when it works. (See weaknesses) Traffic alerts is not very useful. Most of the time is just says slow traffic, and usually underestimates the time delay. My favorite feature is to locate nearby POIs. I just wish the database was more updated and accurate. And I probably won't get lost anymore.UPDATED (6/08): Prices are coming down. Replaced with a Nuvi 680 for about $100 less. The only difference is it has MSN features. Traffic is slightly better and gas prices only show for Regular grade.
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2 Star Review

Reviewed by: lapsrus

Updated:07-06-07

Duration of ownership:3 Days

Strengths:

Weaknesses: Most streets unlabeled. Goofy colors on screen. Kept giving me late instructions.

Overall Evaluation: I have been using Nav for 2 1/2 years now in my Acura. I expected to be helped by having the Nuvi 660 in my Thrifty rental car over the weekend in Monterey, CA. It constantly sent me the long way around and waited until too late to tell me to go left or right. Very interesting on 5 lane freeway! It took me to closed restaurants and asked me to drive on a bike path. I finally stopped at AAA and got a map. I wasn't lost again.