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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

Average Buyer Rating:

Buyer's feedback: - * Great device ...
I wanted a good basic GPS. I did not need the expensive extras of most GPS units such as MP3 etc. My son is a college junior and accepted an internship at a plant in a town we'd never been to. The Garmin fit our needs exactly. It has assisted him in learning the area. I like the points of interest feature. My wife and I visited him one Saturday and using the poi were shown several restaurants to choose from and antique stores to shop. My son uses a cell phone instead of a land line. We did not have a phone book to refer us to these stores. And I did not have to buy a city map. I'll report back once I verify which map version I have and comment on how Garmin handles an upgrade should it be necessary.

I just registered my Garmin 200. A screen popped up informing me a map update is available. I followed the instructions and after about an hour and 20 minutes had the latest map installed. Outstanding

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Buyer's feedback: - I can't get lost, that's a great feeling.
Now that I finally have a GPS I can't believe I went so long without one! I don't drive anywhere I am not familiar with, I get too nervous. Not anymore. Knowing that I can't get lost is great. I'm a Cup soccer mom and I travel to a lot of games, I use to have to arrange to follow people and now I don't have to do that anymore, now they follow me. I got the Garmin nuvi 200 and the only thing I wish is that it told me about traffic. It was the perfect price though. I highly recommend it.

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Buyer's feedback: - * old maps is the only downfall ...
it does it's job most of the time. takes about 5 minutes average to find satelite when first hooking it up everytime, and just has some issues with places not existing in it's data and some roads being in the wrong spots...

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Buyer's feedback: - Exactly what I expected
We bought this product for my mother. In her job, she drives around both our city and into cities and towns across the state line as a visiting nurse. She is often given directions along the lines of "take a left at the second silo and drive until the field where that white house USED to be and then take another left". The Garmin has made her job a lot easier.

It is also useful when you are trying to get somewhere in the city that you only really know how to get to from one way, such as from a certain highway exit, and are on surface streets trying to get there.

My mother was hesitant to "learn" how to use it, but when we showed her that the learning curve was basically non-existant, she now uses it everyday and raves about it to her friends. Worth the money, easy to use.

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Buyer's feedback: - * GPS like a simple point and shoot camera ...
The Garmin Nuvi 200 is simple and easy to use, mainly because it has few settings and does not do much beyond the basics. All commands are entered via large "buttons" on the touch screen. The screen is big and bright, yet the Nuvi is small and light enough to fit in a shirt pocket.

Using the Nuvi 200 is easy: you simply enter your destination by street address and go. You can easily save a list of favorites by name for future use. The GPS tells you when to turn, but does not speak the actual street name (not necessarily a disadvantage).

The user has little control over the route taken because you can set only one waypoint. This means that you could not plan a trip taking in several historic sites, for example. "What if" planning is difficult because all trips start where you actually are at the time, meaning you could not try out possible routes between distant locations. Projected distances and drive times are available only when a trip is underway, making advance planning difficult - though there is a work-around. What's more, projected drive times do not allow for stops, underestimating the time for long trips. In fairness, this is a simple, low price unit, so don't expect too many advanced features.

The worst feature is the automobile power adapter. It's so big and heavy that it keeps coming out of the cigarette lighter socket on my car! Fortunately the battery life is good, so you don't need the power cord for normal driving, but for long trips: yes. I solved the problem by buying a socket extension cord with a better plug at Wal-Mart.

Pros:
simple and easy to use
well-designed user interface
large, clear, informative screen
small and compact

Cons:
not well-suited for trip planning
only one waypoint allowed
poorly-designed power adapter
not possible to edit a saved location except by clearing all saved locations

I subtracted one point for lack of flexibility and the power adapter, but over all, the Nuvi 200 is easy to use and it tells you how to get from here to there.