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Garmin nvi 660 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator | 
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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $699.99
Buy New: $239.00
You Save: $460.99 (66%)
New (12) Used (7) Refurbished (5) from $159.99
Rating:  1514 reviews
Sales Rank: 716
Format: Cd
Platforms: Windows Xp Professional, Windows Xp Home Edition, Windows 2000
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: N/A
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 2.6 x 2.6 x 2.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 010-00540-00
Model: 010-00540-00
UPC: 053759065110
EAN: 0076565001226
ASIN: B000H49LXQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Dimensions WxDxH - 4.9" x .9" x 2.9" | | • | Weight - 6.2 oz | | • | Display - 4.3" WQVGA |
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Amazon.com
nuvi 650 With a gorgeous widescreen display, the Garmin nvi 660 GPS Personal Travel Assistant is your answer to the call of adventure. A sleek navigator and a keen travel assistant, the nvi 660 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.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 display also helps you control hands-free calling, traffic alerts, and the FM transmitter, all from the screen of your personal travel assistant.
Which nvi is Best for You?: Click here to see a quick, simple comparison of features for all Garmin nuvi GPS navigators
Wider screen lets you see more of what's around. Compare these actual size views of a 3-inch (diagonal) screen
and a 4.3-inch diagonal widescreen
 | Widescreen -- See Better, See More
The widescreen format gives you 70% more actual screen area than a 3.5-inch screen. Primarily this translates into a better view of the area through which you are driving. This is especially useful in showing you what parks, restaurants, ATM, gas stations, etc. are nearby, or in letting you know whether a detour is a good idea. Also, the device itself is larger, meaning controls on the screen are more widely spaced and somewhat easier to push.
FM Transmitter -- Hear Better, Hear More
Instead of straining your ears to hear turn-by-turn directions or your favorite MP3s, you can enjoy wireless FM audio transmission via the nvi 660's wireless FM transmitter. Tune your car's radio to the appropriate station and you'll hear all the nvi's audio, including voice prompts, MP3s, audio books, and more, directly through your vehicle's stereo system. The nvi 660 includes many "must-have" entertainment and travel tools, including digital music and audio book playback, JPEG picture viewer, currency converters, and more. All these great features make the nvi 660 a complete Personal Travel Assistant. First Rate Map Data
The nvi 660 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps, including a hefty POI database with hotels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more. Simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, and nvi takes you there with 2D or 3D maps and turn-by-turn voice directions. Garmin gets its map data from NAVTEQ, a world leader in premium-quality mapping.
In addition, the nvi 660 accepts custom points of interest (POIs), such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs Important note about map updates: Due to our high volume of sales, almost every Garmin portable GPS navigator sold by Amazon.com will come with the most recent map version. If you ever do need a map update, you can purchase one from Amazon.com at our Garmin Store.
Hands-Free Calling
In more and more places, it is becoming illegal to use cell phones while driving without a hands-free kit. The nvi 660's Bluetooth capability, microphone and speaker lets match it to any bluetooth-capable phone to make hands-free mobile phone calls. Simply dial the phone number with the nvi'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.
Integrated FM Traffic Receiver
| Steer clear of traffic with an integrated FM traffic receiver designed to receive alerts from TMC Clear Channel about traffic tie-ups and road construction that might lie ahead on your route. All you have to do is simply touch the screen to view traffic details and you'll be ready to detour around any problem area. And if you end up missing a turn, or you're forced into a detour that is not relayed through the traffic receiver, the nvi's sophisticated automatic routing will get you back on track in no time.
In most areas, TMC Clear Channel traffic broadcasts are continuous there's no waiting for scheduled traffic news updates or random alerts. Because traffic broadcasts are received via a "silent" FM data channel, you can still listen to music or news programming on your car radio without interference from incoming FM traffic data transmissions.
A 3-month subscription to TMC Clear Channel's Total Traffic Network is included with purchase of this device. For more information on subscription fees, coverage in individual cities, and traffic data networks in the United Kingdom and Europe, check the Garmin website.
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Easy To Use Interface
Garmin's interface is a key to their success and one of the things that makes their devices such a pleasure to use. Simple controls and sub-screens make it easy to enter or search for destinations and get data about your trip.
Beyond Navigation
Browse your stored pictures with an easy-to-use JPEG viewer. |  A handy MP3 player lets you play songs stored on SD memory cards. |  nvi 250W accepts custom points of interest (POIs). View larger. | Navigation is just the beginning. The nvi 660 features travel tools including JPEG picture viewer, MP3 player, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. It also comes with Garmin Lock, an anti-theft feature, and configurable vehicle icons that let you select car-shaped graphics to show your location on the map.
This device is compatible with optional content plug-ins available via SD card, such as the Garmin Travel Guides and Garmin SaversGuide provide detailed data for attractions and information on nearby merchants offering discounts, so you can customize nvi for your travel needs
Garmin has also added the ability for customers to add custom points of interest (POI’s) from third parties such as school zones and safety cameras. Trick Your GPS Ride
Custom vehicle icons let you ride in style, at least inside your GPS.
See more icon options | All Garmin nvis support 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 the integrated FM TMC traffic receiver. The nvi 770 is designed to receive alerts about traffic tie-ups and road construction that might lie ahead on your route. All you have to do is simply touch the screen to view traffic details and you'll be ready to detour around any problem area. And if you end up missing a turn, or you're forced into a detour that is not relayed through the traffic receiver, the nvi's sophisticated automatic routing will get you back on track in no time.
What's in the Box
nvi 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 a quick reference guide.
Notes
- Optional software for language translation, detailed travel guides, and savings programs allow you to customize your nvi to fit your travel needs
- The FM transmitter feature is only available in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
- Like most USB Mass Storage Devices, the nvi is not compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me.
Which nvi is Best for You?
Note: All nvis come with detailed NAVTEQ maps containing more than 6 million pre-loaded point of interest locations.
| Screen
Size
inches
(w x h)
| Included Maps
| Text-to-Speech
(Directions in
Real Street
Names)
| Traffic
| Bluetooth
| Media
| FM Transmitter
(audio through
car stereo
system) | Multi-
Point
Routing
| Battery
life
(hours)
| Cont. U.S.,
Hawaii, and
Puerto Rico
| AK and
Canada
| Europe
| | nvi 200 | 2.8 x 2.1
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| Photos
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| up to 5
| | nvi 200w | 3.81 x 2.25
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| Photos
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| up to 5 | | nvi 250 | 2.8 x 2.1
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| Photos |
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| up to 5 | | nvi 250w | 3.81 x 2.25
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| Photos |
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| up to 5 | | nvi 260 | 2.8 x 2.1
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| Photos |
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| up to 5 | | nvi 260w | 3.81 x 2.25 | | |
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| Photos |
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| up to 5 | | nvi 270 | 2.8 x 2.1
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| Photos |
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| up to 5 | | nvi 350 | 2.8 x 2.1
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| | FM (with opt.
receiver) |
| Photos, MP3s
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| up to 8
| | nvi 360 | 2.8 x 2.1
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| | FM (with opt.
receiver) | | Photos, MP3s |
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| up to 8 | | nvi 370 | 2.8 x 2.1 | | | | | FM (receiver
included)
| | Photos, MP3s |
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| up to 8 | | nvi 650 | 3.81 x 2.25
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| | FM (with opt.
receiver) |
| Photos, MP3s |
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| up to 7
| nvi 660
| 3.81 x 2.25
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| | FM (receiver
included)
| | Photos, MP3s | |
| up to 7 | nvi 670
| 3.81 x 2.25
| | | | | FM (receiver
included) | | Photos, MP3s | |
| up to 7 | | nvi 680 | 3.81 x 2.25
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| | MSN (receiver
included;
1-year free);
FM (with opt.
receiver)
| | Photos, MP3s | |
| up to 7 | nvi 750
| 3.81 x 2.25
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| | FM (with opt.
receiver);
MSN-enhanced
(with optional
receiver) |
| Photos, MP3s | | | up to 5
| nvi 755T
| 3.81 x 2.25
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| | Integrated FM
receiver with
lifetime traffic |
| Photos, MP3s | | | up to 5
| | nvi 760 | 3.81 x 2.25
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| | FM (receiver
included);
MSN-enhanced
(with optional
receiver)
| | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 5 | | nvi 765T | 3.81 x 2.25
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| | Integrated FM
receiver with
lifetime traffic
| | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 5 | | nvi 770 | 3.81 x 2.25
| | | | | FM (receiver
included);
MSN-enhanced
(with optional
receiver) | | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 5 | | nvi 775T | 3.81 x 2.25
| | | | | Integrated FM
receiver with
lifetime traffic | | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 5 | | nvi 780 | 3.81 x 2.25 | | |
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| MSN-enhanced
(receiver inc.;
3 months free)
receiver);
FM (with opt.
receiver) | | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 5 | | nvi 785T | 3.81 x 2.25
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| | MSN-enhanced
(receiver inc.;
3 months free)
receiver);
FM (with opt.
receiver)
| | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 5 | | nvi 850 | 3.81 x 2.25 | | |
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| MSN-enhanced
(with optional
receiver);
FM (with opt.
receiver) |
| Photos, MP3s | | | up to 4 | nvi 880
| 3.81 x 2.25 | | | |
| MSN-enhanced
(receiver inc.;
3 months free);
FM (with opt.
receiver) | | Photos, MP3s | | | up to 4 | nvi 5000
| 4.5 x 2.7 | | |
| | MSN-enhanced
(with optional
receiver);
FM (with opt.
receiver) |
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| | | external
battery
only |
Product Description
See more and explore with nvi 660. This widescreen travel companion and navigator features preloaded maps, hands-free calling, traffic alerts, FM transmitter and more. Like the rest of the wide nvi 600-series, its large touchscreen display puts the world at your fingertips.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1509 more reviews...
 Very, Very nice July 1, 2009
Antoine Williams (PA, usa)
I love it,, we took a long trip right after we received it,, put in a lot of stops and detours,, it never missed a beat... highly recomended..
Excellenet June 26, 2009
Thomas B. Bartholomew (Palmerton, PA)
My husband loves this one. He hates listening to the radio because of the commercials, so he downloaded songs and plays them thru the radio with no interruptions. He also hooks up his cell and uses it that way and talks and listens thru the speakers
 Excellent GPS. But for the price, highly recommend a newer model. June 18, 2009
Kenneth L. Favrow II (Southern California, USA)
This is an good GPS. It far exceeds the quality of Garmins older units.
However, the new tech is out, and you can really find a better unit for not much more (or even less) than the 660.
It's a good product, but I'd recommend you shop around for newer models.
This model has a few lackings that have recently been approved upon in newer models:
- Bluetooth Mic is TERRIBLE - Radio output hardly works - Speaker output far too quiet
- Non-QWERTY (ABCDE) keypad (Incredibly annoying)
Magellan to Garmin Convert June 16, 2009
James Orrahood (Henderson, Kentucky)
I've been a Magellan Maestro 4040 GPS owner every since they have been on the market. A few months ago, my Magellan was stolen and I started researching consumer reports and reading review after review on every GPS I could find. The over whelming conclusion of all my reading and research was that Garmin made some of the best, if not "the best", GPS's in the mid to upper price ranges. Based upon that conclusion, I decided to purchase a Garmin Nuvi 660. After 2 months use, I couldn't be happier. The differences between the Magellan Maestro 4040 and Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS's were noticeable right off the bat. From ease of use to the user friendly large 4.3-Inch wide screen, the Garmin Nuvi is superior to Magellan in every feature. Personal reviews are, in my opinion, not very reliable in that one doesn't know the motivation and reasons behind each positive and/or negative review. As to my review, if all things are equal as to the GPS's price, warrenties, etc... I will always put my hard earned money behind Amazon's free shipping and customer service every day of the week and twice on Sundays!
 deceiving May 28, 2009
Janet Cea
This is not a new product even though it is described a such on the listing. It is a "used product" and this seller is not truthful enough to state the real condition of it.
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