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By Yenie Darian, October 12, 2009 1:02 PM

Garmin nüvi GPS Navigators Sale !

Garmin nuvi 285W/285WT

Do you want the hot Garmin nüvi 285WT, which allows hands-free calling? Or how about the popular Garmin nüvi 260W that already has hundreds of great reviews? Whatever you’re looking for, you’ll get a great deal on the right Garmin nüvi model for you in this sale.

Discount is reflected in current price. Discount applies only to products sold by Amazon.com; does not apply to items sold by other merchants on the Amazon.com website. Offer good through November 22, while supplies last.

Don’t get lost ! Use the right GPS ! Buy now !

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Garmin nüvi 850 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Voice Command and FM Transmitter (Soft Black)

Garmin nuvi 850 with MP3 Player

With the nüvi 800 series, Garmin adds smooth speech recognition to its bestselling line of sleek portable GPS navigators. As with all nüvis, you get a slim, pocket-sized navigator with a gorgeous display, detailed NAVTEQ maps that let  you search by name for more than 6 million points of interest like stores, restaurants or hospitals, and an easy, intuitive interface. All of the 800-series navigators also feature a rich array of features including spoken directions in real street names, integrated traffic receivers, MP3 player and photo viewer, and an FM transmitter that will play all the nüvi’s audio, including voice prompts, MP3s, audio books, and more, directly through your vehicle’s stereo system. The 850 also features an integrated traffic receiver and enhanced MSN Direct content with traffic data, reas-time gas prices, movie times and more.

Key Features/Benefits

• New – Voice Recognition — Just tell it what you’re looking for (Learn more)
• Easy to use interface (Learn More)
• Integrated Antenna for a slim form factor
• Pre-Loaded Maps for North America with 6 million searchable points of interest (POIs), plus add your own custom POIs (Learn more)
• Multi-Destination Routing — tells you the best way to get to a lot of different places in one trip (Learn More)
• FM Transmitter lets you hear spoken navigation prompts, MP3s or audio books through your car’s stereo system
• Add FM traffic incident data or Enhanced MSN traffic flow data and content with an optional antenna (Learn more)
• Where Am I? — instantly shows you all of the emergency services nearby (Learn More)
• Where’s My Car? — never forget where you parked again (Learn More)
• Widescreen — gives you a better idea of what’s around you (Learn More)
• microSD card slot — store extra maps, travel guides, photos or MP3s
• Photo Viewer and MP3 Player (Learn More)
• Customize Your Onscreen Vehicle Icon (Learn More)
• Garmin Lock (Learn More) — keep others from using your navigator
• New – Photo Navigation lets you upload geo-coded photos from a phone, geo-coding camera or photo site and navigate to them. (Learn more)
• New – Send addresses directly to your Garmin from Google Maps or Mapquest (Learn more)

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By Yenie Darian, October 6, 2009 4:21 PM

Garmin Nuvifone G60 GPS Phone Review: Do Not Buy

Here the new review from Gizmodo

Garmin nuvifone G60

What’s Bad ?

• The resistive touchscreen reminds me of phones circa 2006, bad for everything but big-button tapping.

• There’s no homescreen button, to quickly take you out of a mire of menus.

• It’s crashy—screens froze twice while I was writing this, forcing a full-on hard restart.

• Sometimes the accelerometer just stops working completely.

• The camera is terrible—if the hardware button required for the shutter even works—and there’s no video of any kind.

• The web browser is all but useless, because it relies heavily on zooming in and out, and the touchscreen easily confuses swiping and tapping.

• The interface looks cool at first, but there are strange design choices throughout. Want an example? The QWERTY keyboard only appears in horizontal mode—it’s ABCDE in vertical mode. Also, no “Where To?” button, a la older Nuvi devices.

• You have to pay a $5/month premium charge to check the weather, traffic, local events and other services—all of which can be found on free apps from real smartphone platforms (not just iPhone).

• Even when using email (let alone calendar), there doesn’t seem to be any awareness of the rest of the internet: The email wizard lets you enter any address and password, but it doesn’t say whether it can actually get mail. This tenacious little phone is still trying to log onto my Hotmail account.

• The battery ran down completely during my first day of testing, after a few phone calls and some modest GPS navigation, and the battery indicator drops fast when it’s just on standby. In fairness, you shouldn’t use this phone or any other phone without a car charger, if you intend to use it for GPS navigation.

• There is no car charger. It’s missing the $7 USB-to-cig-lighter adapter. AT&T probably wanted to sell it separately, but when I asked at my local AT&T store, they didn’t even carry it.

• Since it’s an AT&T phone, it has to compete with the iPhone and other handsets that are way better. If the Nuvifone were on Verizon, it would at least have a network advantage in certain markets that it could lord over the iPhone herd. But even Apple haters would have a hard time spending an extra $100 on this—with the exact same phone reception.