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Garmin Nuvi GPS – More than GPS Navigation And Entertainment System

Have you heard of Garmin Nuvi GPS systems?

There are over 30 varieties of Garmin Nuvi GPS systems. It comes with an extensive POI database, 2D and 3D maps, turn-by-turn voice navigation, and tools like a picture view, world travel clock and currency converter, making it more than a navigation device.

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250 – The Garmin Nuvi GPS 250 is a small step up in price from the 200 but offers a huge leap in features. It also has 2D and 3D maps, turn-by-turn voice instruction, and POIs. Even more, you get the picture viewer, world travel clock, currency converter and measurement converter for no extra charge.

It has the same features as the 250, but with a 4.3-inch screen instead of a 3.5-inch screen. For example, in addition to the street maps, POIs, and turn-by-turn instruction, you get an optional FM TMC traffic receiver, as well as entertainment features such as a MP3 player, audio book player, picture view, language translator, anti-theft feature, and a lot more.

360 – Also considered a pocket-sized travel assistant, the 360 gives you all of the features you love about the 350 with one extra – Bluetooth technology. Some include a FM transmitter, traffic alerts for road construction, a 4.3-inch large touchscreen display, customizable POIs, turn-by-turn voice navigation with street names called out, and language translation.

850 – Stepping it up a notch is the Garmin Nuvi GPS 850, an advanced navigator with speech recognition that let’s you make menu selections verbally, a widescreen display, FM translator, and tons of preloaded maps.

So, the Garmin nuvi is not just a GPS by any means. It includes the following features not found in other old GPS.

Navigation

The Garmin nuvi 360 comes with preloaded maps of Europe or North America.

Hands-free calls with Bluetooth wireless technology

The nuvi 360 along with its counterpart the nuvi 310 integrate wireless technology with a microphone and speaker that lets you make hands-free mobile phone calls. Simply dial numbers with the nuvi’s touch screen keypad to make a call on a compatible Bluetooth phone. To answer calls, just tap nuvi’s screen and speak directly into its built in microphone.

Simply find and dial it from nuvi’s extensive points of interest database – including hotels, restaurants, stores, and attractions.

Enjoy Travel Kit full of entertainment and useful tools

Nuvi includes many entertainment and travel tools including MP3 player, audio book player with optional content from Audible.com, JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converters and more.

Language Guide

Contains five bilingual dictionaries and a multilingual word bank and phrase bank that support nine languages and dialects.

Travel Guide

Gives you helpful and thorough reviews and recommendations for restaurants, hotels, shopping, nightlife, sporting events and tourist attractions. Travel Guide for the United States and Europe are currently available for purchase.

So take the time to look over the Garmin Nuvi GPS devices on the market. You are guaranteed to find the one you love.

GPS Portable Devices

GPS, or Global Positioning System technology, lets GPS portable receivers pick up transmissions from four of the twenty-four tracking satellites.

To be able to function properly, however, the GPS portable receiver must be positioned where it the satellite transmissions will not be blocked.

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The GPS portable receivers are often incapable of receiving signals if they are being used near tall buildings or under heavy canopies of vegetation. The GPS portable receivers can be used indoors, but only with the aid of an external antenna.

Commercial GPS portable devices are now available in an amazing variety of applications besides stand alone receivers.

How to Buy Portable GPS

When considering the features that you want in your portable gps navigation system, it’s important to consider if you’ll actually be needing that feature or if it’s just an added bonus.

Here are some things to consider:

1.       Size of the GPS Unit
2.       Price of GPS Unit
3.       Street name announcement
4.       Time to destination
5.       Automatic rerouting

You’ll find a lot of choices when purchasing a portable gps car navigation system.

My First Purchase And Experience Portable GPS

If you go to any major retailer’s website and search for GPS, you’ll find a large amount of options. You must know a few key points to decide on BEFORE purchasing a GPS device.

GPS units can be cheap or very expensive. Some devices can integrate with your cell phone! Some devices include an MP3 player. There are many features besides navigation available on various models.

You may want traffic and weather reports on your unit. Search on the internet for user forums relating to the model or models, or brands, you are interested in. I decided to purchase a “flashy” bells-and-whistles GPS device and took it on a trial run. Intently listening to the GPS, “Turn left ahead”. Gotcha! We turn. “Turn right”. Then the road practically ended. “Turn left”. We continued on paved roads. We turn left and watch as the road narrowed between trees and barbed-wire fences.

We were back on another rough dirt road for, according to the GPS, 2.5-miles. I then exchanged this brand for another, less flashy yet more expensive, GPS unit. My primary need for a GPS unit is navigation – meaning accurate, dependable, routing.

I checked this unit’s routing before I left the store. It routed me to the home without using unpaved/dirt roads. Good! Sold! Enter a familiar address on each GPS brand they sell and have them create a route.