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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: - * Preloaded Maps Create Problem ...
The compact design of the Garmin Nuvi 200 makes it very portable and this is really commendable. Even more so, is its user-friendliness. The operation of the device is quite easy even for a "cave man." More stunning is that the Garmin Nuvi 200 offers more accurate directions than some built-in high-priced navigation systems in many vehicles. In addition, the Garmin Nuvi 200 offers very travel-friendly features like travel guides and foreign language dictionaries. In essence, the Garmin nüvi 200 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator is quite great for its price. However, in areas that have new construction and new traffic patterns (and there are quite a bit of them all accross the US), the Garmin nüvi 200 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator poses a problem as the preloaded map can't easily be upgraded without having to replace the entire system [Nwankama Nwankama].

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Buyer's feedback: - Excellent
Simply excellent, it covered all my expectations. Not worth spending any more money in the more expensive models, not even the Nuvi 200W as the screen of the Nuvi 200 is more than enough. Only usefull thing which is only present in more expensive models is route capability which I miss in this model.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Not bad for the price ...
great GPS if you want a basic unit that will take you from point A to point B. Price is not bad compared to other units that offer the same features.

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Buyer's feedback: - Nice little GPS
This does help with finding new places, although maps/mapquest are still good to have. We found having the address helped, as looking up a restaurant meant sifting through lots of little ones and two defunct ones were at the same location as a new restaurant that didn't come up; the address got us there though. I also wondered at how some of the entries were put in, cryptic entries, initials, etc. that had me wondering if the unit had been returned or reconditioned, but I couldn't erase them so I guess not.

We got ours at Office Depot for a special price of $129 plus tax. We had no trouble getting the 2009 downloads for free online after registration, although we had to have the right cable to connect to the laptop (thanks to Dad, who'd salted away a useful phone cord). Trying to get a free mailed upgrade from a customer service rep might be subject to their individual knowledge.

It does not come with a case but we found the black slipin with pink inside at Walmart, great and I think they have it here for less, or the all-black version. We also bought a dashboard holder for $45 (also cheaper here I think) because we live in CA and they don't let you put it on the windshield. Easily transferable to our other vehicles using the holder.

I like it, but it can lead you astray and also take your attention from the road. It will recalculate if you go off course. We practiced using it some places we go to see what it would do (like taking us on three right turns instead of left to the Posey tube in Alameda) so we pretty much know what to expect. I'd recommend doing that to see how good it is. We were pleasantly surprised to have it navigate a new complicated interchange in Milpitas where mere humans often can't figure out which exit to take / lane to stay in. In the boonies it might be more interesting, but there you should have a map and a clue. And supplies.

We now put it in the mode where we see the next turn on the left side of the screen, but can read the next three on the right side - in big enough print to see & far enough in advance - otherwise we were told to turn left when we were stuck in the straight lane, we must have missed the small memo at the top which is hard to see while looking where you are going.

Overall good, but I like maps for exploring or trip travel, or detours - which it will do, but I'd like to see on a map. This little guy will keep you pointed in the right direction on a trip and come up with food, gas stations, etc. along the way, which is pretty cool. Also very handy when you know where the hotel is, but you're coming from a completely different direction.

Be sure you do not leave it in the car, or leave the holder, cord or suction cup/mark on the window visible; it's a target for thieves.

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Buyer's feedback: - * Love My GPS ...
Although I am usually not directionally challenged I got this just to make finding new addresses easier. The set-up is so simple it is hardly a "set-up". Took it to look at colleges in LA. Never got lost and never felt nervous being in a strange (unfamiliar - lol) land.