Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS Personal Travel Assistant 
Go Beyond Navigation. Navigation is just the beginning. Nuvi 660 includes many “must have” entertainment and travel tools including MP3 player, audio book player, JPEG picture viewer, currency converters, and more.
With Garmin’s Nuvi 660, you’ll be able to see the big picture! This all-in-one Personal Travel Assistant incorporates a large, 4.3-inch touch screen, integrated traffic capabilities, FM transmitter, and a super-bright display. The large, touch screen interface, the Nüvi 660 makes it easier than ever to obtain voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions. You can also get route calculation and automatic rerouting if a motorist strays off course.
The traffic receiver will notify the driver of upcoming traffic or road construction delays and the delay’s severity. If the accident or construction delay occurred prior to the user programming the desired destination, the unit will automatically calculate a route around congestion. Includes three months of free Total Traffic Network. It’s an all-in-one portable GPS device that combines GPS navigation with new and innovative applications. Audible language translation into five different languages Comes with the first geo-coded coupon book that notifies users of nearby discounts at restaurants, hotels, automotive repair, and more Includes pre-loaded NAVTEQ maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico Suction Mount.
The Nuvi 660, along with its counterparts, the Nuvi 360 and Nuvi310, integrate Bluetooth wireless technology with a microphone and speaker that lets you make hands-free mobile phone calls. Simply dial the phone number with the Nuvi’s touch screen keypad to make a call on a compatible phone. To answer an incoming call, just tap the screen and speak into the built-in microphone. Making and taking calls on the road has never been easier, or safer. In addition, Garmin makes it a breeze to look-up and dial numbers from your personalized phone book or even tap into your cell phone’s call history log.
Garmin Nuvi 660 Features: :
- Personal Travel assistant is loaded with highly detailed NAVTEQ City Navigator NT road maps for the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico
- Super-bright, 4.3-inch wide screen display makes map viewing easy, day or night
- Select destinations, look up POIs, and play your favorite MP3s and audio books with the touch screen interface
- Integrated Bluetooth wireless technology with a mic and speaker lets you make hands-free mobile phone calls
- Measures 4.9 x 2.9 x 0.9 inches (WxHxD) and weighs 6.2 ounces
Garmin Nuvi 660 Specifications: :
- Type: Car Kit
- WASS Enabled: Yes
- Waypoints: 500 with name and graphic symbol
- Trip Computer: Average Speed
- Trip Computer: Resettable Odometer
- Trip Computer: Timers
- Trip Computer: Maximum Speed
- Inputs: 12/24 Vdc
- Display: Color
- Touch Screen: Yes
- Voice: Yes
- Battery Life: 7 hours
- Antenna: Flip-up patch
- Special Features: Bluetooth
- Length: 2.9″
- Width: 4.9″
- Depth: 0.9″
What’s in the Box: Nuvi 660 GPS navigation system, preloaded City Navigator North, America NT data, vehicle suction cup mount, A/C charger, carrying case, FM traffic receiver/12-volt adapter with 3-month free trial subscription, dashboard disk, USB interface cable, sample language guide content (preloaded), sample travel guide, sample MP3s (preloaded), sample audio books (preloaded), owner’s manual, and quick reference guide.
Customer Review: Wow!! Just unbelievable! Run, don’t walk and get one NOW!, With this unit, Garmin has blown TomTom out of the water. The 350/360 were slick units but arguably came up a bit short in the display department when compared to the TomTom - that’s all a distant memory now.
This is the most elegant AIO (all in one) GPS navigation solution I’ve come across to date. IMO, it represents the best compromise between size and functionality on the market today. Beyond this point, increasing the screen size enters the diminishing return territory. The SiRFstarIII chipset, while no longer the absolute best on the market, remains a reliable workhorse with rapid satellite acquisition under even less than ideal conditions. The mapping details are excellent though, as with all mapping programs, is not beyond reproach. The 660 has the most recent highly detailed City Navigator NT maps.
The voice prompts are loud, clear and timely. The ease of use is just fantastic and the visibility and quality of the display are now the gold standard in the industry with a 4.3″ WQVGA LCD screen and 480 x 272 pixels. It uses the same low reflection screen as the 360.
POI access is excellent and can be navigated to much more simply than the TomTom unit which requires additional cumbersome steps. The attachment system for the Nuvi is superb and very secure. You can access your POIs directly by name rather than having to go through a cumbersome category menu and then only getting the POIs by proximity as is the case with the TomTom 910. Garmin simply blows TomTom away in the POI functionality department.
This device is intended as an extremely simple point to point navigating AIO GPS navigation solution and is not intended to enable the use of way points or easily changing the course selected by the unit. You have essentially two options: the shortest route and the fastest route. Fortunately, the mapping program selects routs that are very cceptable. Personally, I like to look at the overall route and fiddle with it. This unit is not designed for such use. Microsoft Streets and Trips is ideal for this kind of tinkering, but terrible for point to point navigation while on the go at which the Nuvi has no peer.
Make sure and get the most recent firmware updates on the Garmin website which will fix the known bugs and further improve the functionality. Insofar as functionality goes this unit is as simple as the 350/360. Even my 85 year old father can use these things! He is, to put it kindly, technologically challenged but his 350 is so intuitive and easy to use that he’s had no problems whatsoever. He doesn’t like to be distracted while driving so he plans his trip before leaving and simply listens to the voice prompts.
The new bluetooth feature enables the use of your hands free bluetooth enabled phone. It’s a nice feature, but as with all bluetooth devices that I’ve used it’s still not as good as talking directly on the phone. I personally have not used the built in FM transmitter and so cannot comment on it. I can heartily recommend this product. Garmin has knocked one out of the park.
Customer Review: Best Pocket GPS On the Market
This is the first GPS unit I owned and couldn’t be more pleased. After consulting with friends who have owned multiple GPS units and reading various reviews, this is one of the nicest, feature-packed, and most importantly, accurate unit on the market. Just this morning, I opted to take a longer route to get to the highway because the street I usually take was under construction.
I’ve driven sparingly on that alternate route for 4 years and never realized there was a small intersecting street in a business district I can cut through to get to the highway more quickly. The Nuvi 660 pointed that out, basically shaving off over a mile in distance, traffic congestion, and plenty of frustration. GPS owners tell me having one will change my life… I’m starting to believe. By the way, the unit didn’t take my 4-gig SD card, but accepted the 2-gig, and 1-gig SD cards. Maybe Garmin will eventually have updates that will read the 4-gig card.
To clarify on another review: It DOES come with 6 million POIs… for free. It’s located under the subcategory of “Where to?” in the “Food, Hotels…” icon. Update 10/22/06 - Speaking of updates, software version 2.40 was released in October and one of the fix was to the screen’s touch pad, which made it more sensitive and accurate to the touch. I noticed the yellow traffic symbol is more responsive to the touch now. Just took this Nuvi on an East Coast trip to Washington, D.C., VA, NJ, PA, NY and its performance exceeded my expectations.
It founded just about every addresses and POIs I entered, except for one because the store recently changed its name. Needless to say, I never got lost. In one instance, I searched for the nearest Target in Fairfax, VA. Not only it got me there, but told me where to drive around inside the shopping center’s parking lot, leading me right up to the front of the store! Update 11/08/06 - After nearly two months of use, the unit still works well. However, I found that real time traffic indicator is not as useful as initially thought. It would give me the typical obvious traffic jams around town, but who doesn’t already know it, unless one is not from here. I would still recommend this unit though.
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