 - 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
List Price: $749.99
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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.
Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-08
Worth it
I love this device, very user friendly and i can't find any negative about it. Great price when I bought it and two thumbs up! Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-07
Very good but not great
I bought the 650 for my mother after owning the 660 for about a year. I found I didn't use the Bluetooth or FM transmitter features at all and figured she wouldn't either. I find the navigation to be very good but less accurate than the Magellan NeverLost systems I've used in rental cars. The Nuvi frequently wants to route me off the highway and thru towns that I know will be much slower. Also, it doesn't take into account traffic lights and stop signs, so you can't trust the estimated arrival time it displays.
I use it in the car and on planes to listen to podcasts I've downloaded to it, so the dual use is especially wonderful. I found the photo viewer quite poor in that it doesn't reliably display the pictures full-screen. Also annoying is the warning screen that pops up every time you turn the unit on, whether or not you're moving. No other type of electronic device warns you not to use it while you're driving; it's just stupid, clumsy blather.
Another poor design aspect is the fact that when you lock the interface to avoid accidental touches, the Nuvi displays a static message that it's locked--even when you are navigating. Instead, it should just display the navigation or audio controls with the screen darkened to save battery life. There are plenty of times that I would be happy to use the thing in darkened and locked mode but the display is useless. Last, the Nuvi should still work while it's charging or connected by USB like a cell phone does, but instead it displays a static image.
Rating:
Date: 2008-07-07
Great GPS; very User-friendly; good battery life
Purchased this GPS about two months ago and have taken it on several trips. It picks up satellite signal much better than my previous GPS. It is very easy to use and self explanatory. The battery life seems to be very adequate. I have already found a few businesses that no longer exist that are listed. It would be nice if you had a free update for one year. This GPS is small enough to carry in your pocket if needed. Rating:
Date: 2008-07-06
Garmin Nuvi 650
This GPS fit all of our needs "Almost" perfectly on our recent trip to Canada and Maine. At one point in Canada, instad of directing us to a shopping market, we ended up in front of 4 garbage cans in a depressed area. So, we named the unit "Mata", short for Mata Hari as it had betrayed us. This was really the only time though, and we grew more and more dependent upon it and it's ability to locate all kinds of information for us such as available lodging, fuel etc. It didn't contain ALL lodging possibilities but enough to give us a good idea as to whether or not we would be able to stay someplace. We enabled the chime to sound when a turn was upon us and we enjoyed having "Mata" mention street names and distances. I would definitely recommend this unit. Rating:
Date: 2008-07-05
Great navigation perfomance: skimpy accessories
Incredibly accurate navigation; user interface is mostly intuitive and and user-friendly. Excellent, bright display (that automatically dims and changes contrast at dusk/dawn). Used at length from the mid-Atlantic to Ottawa, and it has rarely suggested a wrong turn (and recalculates and recovers nicely when it does).
Minor interface issues:
-There is no map scale indicated (except in the "turn details" view and when browsing the map, such as after you enter an address).
--Although manually entered "favorite" locations will accept phone numbers as part of their data set, you can't do so at the time you enter the name and address information. Instead, you have to repeat your steps to return to favorites, and then enter the phone number.
--When connected to a Vista machine, isues with Vista and current browsers; close the error messages and you should be fine (the blame here almost certainly lies with Vista anyway!).
These are minor annoyances that detract little from the overall usefulness of this device.
You can't go wrong with this unit if you don't need Bluetooth.
Less forgivable:
a carrying case, printed manual and household AC adapter should have been in the box from Garmin (and in these days when GPS units are high theft they should have considered a friction/beanbag mount too...avoids the telltale "high value item was stored here" notification circle on your windshield.
You can't go wrong from a technical point of view, but leave a little room in your budget for the extras you'll probably want. |
