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)

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.

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, announced today that it was introducing the GPS 72H with new, state-of-the-art features including a high-sensitivity GPS receiver, and a fast USB interface – all in an easy-to-use handheld that floats.

“Since 2002, the GPS 72 has been the handheld of choice for the boater that wants a simple, rugged, and reliable navigator,” said Dan Bartel, Garmin’s vice president for worldwide sales.  “Now, with a high-sensitivity receiver, boaters can acquire a position fix quickly and easily.”

In addition to improved GPS satellite reception, the GPS 72H can quickly transfer waypoints, tracks, and routes via its fast USB interface, as well as the tried-and-true NMEA 0183.  Battery life has also been improved to 18 hours (typical use).  Like the legacy GPS 72, the updated 72H is fully waterproof to IPX-7 standards (submersible in one meter of water for up to 30 minutes).  Best of all, the unit floats, in case of an accidental dunking.

The GPS 72H features built-in celestial data, including tide tables, sunrise/sunset times, and a fishing and hunting almanac.  Like its predecessor, the GPS 72H stores up to 500 waypoints and 50 routes.

The GPS 72H includes a wrist strap, a quick start manual, and digital owner’s manual.  The unit is expected to be available in the October 2009 for a suggested retail price of $149.99.  Visit www.garmin.com for more information.

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By Yenie S. Darian

The Garmin GPS 12 is a discontinued product of Garmin. It was an almost ideal for Geocachers and kayakers.

For your information The Garmin GPS 12 Personal Navigator provided an affordable choice for outdoor adventurers who want a basic, dependable, and hard-working 12-parallel-channel GPS handheld. It offers fast satellite acquisition in the toughest conditions-even in heavy tree cover. I think it was the great simply product.

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Garmin nuvi 1200 Series

The Garmin Nuvi 1200 series that consists of the Nuvi 1200, the Nuvi 1250, and the Nuvi 1260T are the latest of great automotive GPS units from Garmin.

All of this new Garmin GPS have the same size (3.7″W x 2.9″H x .6″D), weight (4.0 ounces) and screen size (2.8″W x 2.1″H, 3.5″diagonal). It is thin and light weight that can easily fits in your pocket for walking around the city.

This new Garmin Nuvi 1200 series GPS has:

• 3.5 inch display (diagonal)
• Speaks street names
• Optional FM lifetime traffic information
• Preloaded street maps for lower 48 states, Hawaii and Puerto Rico
• Where am I? feature
• Photo navigation
• ecoRoute™
• Optional MSN® Direct

Compare the nüvi 1200 Series

Some features that are missing from the newer widescreen versions are Lane Assist, Lane Guidance, customizable vertical data fields.

However, this entire new Garmin GPS navigator is an ultra-slim design that fits easily in your pocket. These are simply GPS units.

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By Yenie S. Darian

Garmin StreetPilot 2720

Here the best portable GPS unit on the market. Garmin – StreetPilot 2720 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator® NT street maps, including hefty Points of Interest (POIs) database with fuel, ATMs, hotels, restaurants and more. But accepts custom Points of Interest (POIs), such as school zones and safety cameras, and lets you set nearness alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs.

Garmin – StreetPilot 2720 comes with the features turn-by-turn voice directions, use the remote to enter a destination, simply touch the sunlight-readable screen, and 2D or 3D maps.

The best feature of Garmin StreetPilot 2720 is it minimizes trip distances by calculating the optimal route between multiple destinations. It is perfect for sales and delivery professionals.

The StreetPilot 2720 is also waterproof, a great choice for motorcyclists. The 2720 is much faster, has easier menus to navigate, has 3D navigation, and a screen that is more responsive and easier to operate with.

The weakness are this is a bulky unit compared to the latest generation of GPS, expensive unit, then you need an extra $70 to have current maps and it doesn’t have the bells and whistles of Bluetooth, MP3 playback or an FM transmitter.

I think the newer units are even better but the Garmin StreetPilot 2720 is capable and easy to use. Generally it is a very good unit and an amazing value at this price.

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by Yenie S. Darian

Garmin GPS 76

In the last few years navigation devices have made some major changes that more compact than ever. One of those changes is The Garmin GPS 76 Marine Friendly Receiver. It’s small (W x H x D, 2.7 in. x 6.2 in. x 1.2 in and only 7.7 oz).

This Garmin Handheld GPS system has high technology, which accounts for the systems 3 meter accuracy range. It has a large display screen (1.6 in. x 2.2 in), level 4 gray LCD uses 180 x 240 pixels.

This Garmin Handheld GPS Receiver can interface with your home computer or your travel laptop, using a serial cable. And the system allows you to input up to 500 different points of interest, which will mark stores, lodging, and your campsite, as well as the place you parked. It’s equipped with worldwide maps of cities, streets, and marine navigation aids. You can input 50 different routes on one of 10 saved tracks, which also allow you to input 2,048 points of interest. And the great benefit of this GPS is completely waterproof.

The Garmin GPS 76 Marine Friendly Receiver is great for hunters and fishermen. It has a built in celestial data, includes a calendar and tide information. You can pinpoint your exact location as the screen shows a dotted trail straight to you, if your friend also has one of the Garmin Handheld GPS Receiver. If you are entered in a race or fishing tournament you can activate the timer from the easy access side buttons, and the timer will begin counting down.

The Garmin Handheld GPS 76 Marine Friendly Receiver has many benefits for your outdoors activities or over the road.

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By Ilango Chokalingam

With innovative solutions for communications, Garmin creates global positioning systems (GPS) for a variety of needs and at a variety of reasonable prices.

By using 24 different satellite systems to pinpoint your exact location, you will never have to pull over at a gas station again to ask for directions. This equipment was developed by the US Department of Defense to help them strategically plan their positioning, and the same trusted technology is used for your everyday navigation needs.

Garmin nüvi 360 3.5-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator

Garmin GPS has been a trusted name in navigation and communications since 1989, and has grown to become a large, global company with thousands of employees. This employee base is responsible for the creation of amazing innovations everyday in the fields of communication and navigation technologies.

Any list of top 5 or top 10 navigation devices is guaranteed to have a minimum of 3 – 6 Garmin GPS devices on it. When looking for a GPS system to add to your electronics portfolio, definitely consider a Garmin device for dependability.

From high end, high quality GPS products, to the everyday necessities in navigational services that meet you and your families needs, you will find a navigational system that meets your needs within Garmin’s large and exclusive product line.

From the Garmin StreetPilot i5 to the Nuvi 35, you will find the GPS device that best suits your everyday travel needs with dependability and reliability in their technology. You can find prices ranging from $399 to $799, above, below and in between, as they have mastered the ability to provide every budget with a device that more than meets the price.

It is important to compile a list of the important features and functionality requirements that your particular device should have so that you are not overwhelmed when you view the actual products.

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