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Navigate without breaking your budget with nüvi 200. This affordable entry-level personal travel assistant comes with preloaded maps for the continental U.S., Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. For even more mapping options, nüvi 250 features preloaded maps for all of North America, while the transatlantic nüvi 270 includes preloaded maps for both continents. Like all nuvi 200-series members, the 200 features an easy-to-use colorful touchscreen and ultra-slim design--perfect for everyday navigation.

The nüvi 200 comes preloaded with maps for U.S., Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, and features an easy-to-use touchscreen and ultra-slim design.

Which nüvi is Best for You?: Click here to see a quick, simple comparison of features for all Garmin nuvi GPS navigators.

Smart, Powerful Design
The nüvi 200 is built with a high-sensitivity WAAS-enabled GPS receiver for extreme accuracy, as well as an SD card slot for storing your media and additional navigation tools, and a USB interface for loading data. All this is wrapped up in a package that measures 3.8 x 2.8 x .8 inches (W x H x D) and weighs just 5.2 ounces. The nüvi 200's 3.5-inch (diagonal) display is touchscreen-enabled, making it a cinch to control the device with your fingertips. A rechargeable lithium-ion battery provides up to five hours of battery life depending on use.

Navigate with Ease
nüvi comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps for the continental United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, including a hefty database of more than 6 milliong points of interest (P0ls), such as hotels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more, that are searchable by name or category. Simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, and nüvi 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. ln addition, the nüvi accepts custom (P0ls), such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming P0ls.



lmportant note about map updates: Due to our high volume of sales, almost every Garmin portable GPS navigator sold by will come with the most recent map version. lf you ever do need a map update, you can purchase one from Amazon.com at our Garmin Store.




Easy To Use lnterface
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.

nüvi accepts custom points of interest (P0ls). View larger.

Navigation is just the beginning. nüvi features travel tools including JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. lt 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 nüvi for your travel needs.




Garmin has also added the ability for customers to add custom points of interest (P0l’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 option

All nüvis 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.

What's in the Box
nüvi 200, preloaded City Navigator NT for the continental U.S., Hawaii, and Puerto Rico (no Alaska or Canada detail), vehicle suction cup mount, vehicle power cable, dashboard disk, and set up and go guide



Note: Like most USB Mass Storage Devices, the nüvi is not compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me.

Which nüvi is Best for You?


Note: All nüvis come with detailed NAVTEQ maps containing more than 6 million pre-loaded point of interest locations.

	Screen Size inches (w x h)	lncluded 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
nüvi 200	2.8 x 2.1							Photos			up to 5
nüvi 200w	3.81 x 2.25							Photos			up to 5
nüvi 250	2.8 x 2.1							Photos			up to 5
nüvi 250w	3.81 x 2.25							Photos			up to 5
nüvi 260	2.8 x 2.1							Photos			up to 5
nüvi 260w	3.81 x 2.25							Photos			up to 5
nüvi 270	2.8 x 2.1							Photos			up to 5
nüvi 350	2.8 x 2.1					FM (with opt. receiver)		Photos, MP3s			up to 8
nüvi 360	2.8 x 2.1					FM (with opt. receiver)		Photos, MP3s			up to 8
nüvi 370	2.8 x 2.1					FM (receiver included)		Photos, MP3s			up to 8
nüvi 650	3.81 x 2.25					FM (with opt. receiver)		Photos, MP3s			up to 7
nüvi 660	3.81 x 2.25					FM (receiver included)		Photos, MP3s			up to 7
nüvi 670	3.81 x 2.25					FM (receiver included)		Photos, MP3s			up to 7
nüvi 680	3.81 x 2.25					MSN (receiver included; 1-year free); FM (with opt. receiver)		Photos, MP3s			up to 7
nüvi 750	3.81 x 2.25					MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with opt. receiver)		Photos, MP3s			up to 5
nüvi 760	3.81 x 2.25					MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with opt. receiver)		Photos, MP3s			up to 5
nüvi 770	3.81 x 2.25					MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with opt. receiver)		Photos, MP3s			up to 5
nüvi 780	3.81 x 2.25					MSN-enhanced (receiver inc.; 3 months free) receiver); FM (with opt. receiver)		Photos, MP3s			up to 5
nüvi 850	3.81 x 2.25					MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with opt. receiver)		Photos, MP3s			up to 4
nüvi 880	3.81 x 2.25					MSN-enhanced (receiver inc.; 3 months free); FM (with opt. receiver)		Photos, MP3s			up to 4
nüvi 5000	4.5 x 2.7					MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with opt. receiver)					external battery only

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Testimonials

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Buyer's feedback: - * I like it, but... ...
This little gadget has been very helpful lately. We moved to a new area and we have heavily relied on it's wisdom. The only problem I have with it is the search feature. It seems to take a long time pull up a list. For example if you ask for nearby food options it takes a LONG time to compile said list. But otherwise it's fab, and we're really glad we have it.

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Buyer's feedback: - Works Well Enough to Get You There
This GPS was really simple to setup and to use. The only problem that we have is that the whole subdivision where we live is on maps at least 35 years ago. I don't know where they get their maps sometimes but over 35 years ago, the roads were different where we live and that's how this GPS has them. Our road was a more recent addition so it isn't even on the GPS. Luckily we can figure out how to get out of the subdivision on our own but its just aggravating that its wrong. Some of the names in our city have been changed a few years ago and they have the old names on the Garmin instead of the new ones.

But I really like that if you are somewhere you can find places to eat and shop. When you are on the interstate, sometimes the best places to stop are a little further down the road and you wouldn't know without the Garmin or a book like The Next Exit which we still carry because we have a diesel truck and we need to know who has diesel and not just where the gas stations are. The Garmin doesn't give detailed information about places, just a list of them and addresses. And of course the directions to them. If you travel along interstates alot (we are RVers so we do) I recommend that book very highly to go along with your GPS.

Information for people that may not have used a GPS system before and be familiar with is that you do need to know the exact address to a place to receive accurate directions. Sometimes we may just know the street name and not the exact address and you can run into problems finding it still. That seems like common sense but so many times you don't know the address and that's when you want to use this thing because you don't know where you are going. But we have found the turn by turn directions pretty accurate.

Overall, good system for the price.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Does what it is supposed to do, and well. ...
Easy to set up and use right out of the box. It came with the 2008 maps loaded. When I registered it, I received a message indicating I was eligible for a free download the 2009 maps. Garmin doesn't include a mini-USB cable with the unit, so I had to purchase one before I was able to download the map update, a minor inconvenience. We've used the Garmin on several trips by car, and also on foot, and it worked well. We are very happy with this purchase.

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Buyer's feedback: - Excellent GPS at a great price
This is my second Garmin GPS purchase and I could not be more pleased. It is so easy to use that anyone could take it out of the box and go.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Garmin nuvi 200 is a good tool. ...
This GPS unit arrived just in time for my families 700 mile trip to Florida. It was easy to learn how it worked and the suction cup grip fits nicely on the windshield. It took us a way to Florida that we had not been before using some state highway roads. It actually turned out to be almost an hour faster route. The biggest glitch is the find a restaurant feature seems to be off a little. It tried to take us to a couple of fast food places but got us within distance. It will find addresses ok and the estimated time to arrival feature and mph feature are awesome!!! Well worth the $ a great value.