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Navigate both North America and Europe without loading more maps with the affordable nüvi 270. This entry-level Personal Travel Assistant makes traveling so simple. For even more mapping options, nüvi 250 and nüvi 200 offer less map coverage at a lower price. Like all nüvi 200-series members, the 270 features an easy-to-use colorful touchscreen and ultra-slim design--perfect for everyday navigation.

The nüvi 270 comes preloaded with maps for North America and Europe, and features an easy-to-use touchscreen and ultra-slim design.

Configurable vehicle icons let you select car-shaped graphics.

nüvi 270 accepts custom points of interest (P0ls). View larger.

Smart, Powerful Design
The nüvi 270 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 270'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 270 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps, including a hefty points of interest (P0ls) database with hotels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more. 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. ln addition, nüvi 270 accepts custom points of interest (P0ls), such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming P0ls.

Go Beyond Navigation
Navigation is just the beginning. nüvi 270 features many 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. 0ptional plug-in SD cards for our line of 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.

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


What's in the Box
nüvi 270, preloaded City Navigator NT for North America and Europe (full coverage), vehicle suction cup mount, vehicle power cable, dashboard disk, and set up and go guide.









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Buyer's feedback: - * Garmin nuvi 270 ...
I would recommend Garmin nuvi 270 if you often travel to Europe and not care much about text to speech which this product does not support.

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Buyer's feedback: - Garmin Nuvi 270
Bought the Garmin Nuvi 270 2 weeks ago on . Incredibly fast shipping. I paid $181.99 plus $12.00 shipping. Item works like a charm. Very easy to understand and operate. I've tried Magellan and Tom Tom GPS systems and they just were too complicated. The Garmin 270 at the current price of $174.99 is a great deal and the bonus maps of Canada and Western Europe make this purchase even better. This Garmin 270 was my first purchase at Amazon and it was a very positive experience. I

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Buyer's feedback: - * Nuvi 270 Doesn't Deliver in Small Town Italy ...
Garmin nüvi 270 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with US, Canada & European Maps

Took the Nuvi 270 to small towns in Italy. In the mountains it frequently couldn't find the satellite for a long while. Then when we either went around mountains or drove in streets in the old villages it would give directions and then say "recalculating" and "make a U turn" and then send us another direction or back to the original direction. In taking the autostrada to Amalfi it took us off of the main road that we were on and put us on a parallel road that took longer and made no sense to change. Addresses were hard to program in. We couldn't find a way to just program the gps to take us to a city center. Did find that larger cities seemed to do better, but didn't really trust it after all of the mistakes.

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Buyer's feedback: - Will save your marriage
I bought the 270 because my brother finally took his garmin handheld unit back. The 270 is intuitive, speedy, has all the features you care about (unless you're a freak and sport a bluetooth headset at all times) and has really come down in price. I was amazed by how intuitive its controls are and the abundance of points of interest. I felt like having pagliacci pizza, went to POI's, food, spell, typed in pagl and hit enter. 3 seconds later, I was on my way. Despite the price being 25 dollars cheaper on amazon, I bought mine at costco.com so if the thing dies, I can return it.

My only disappointment with this is the dashboard disk the unit came with. It wouldn't stick to the dashboard at all. However, the windshield suction cup works like a champ.

Buy this unit and save your marriage :)

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Buyer's feedback: - * Awesome Unit! ...
I bought this for a trip to Italy where I would be driving through Tuscany. What a great purchase! "Lisa" saved my butt more than once on roads that I never would have been able to navagate without "her" - from main highways to local roads to dirt paths! I was very happy with the performance and the "safety camera zone" warnings (europe's version of the unmanned speed trap) even in small towns. The size was a real plus as it was very transportable - even in a shirt pocket.

There are a couple of limitations - probably typical of ANY GPS. It doesn't work really well in some of the old towns when walking around - I think not enough "sky" access to find the satellites. Also tracking you as you walk isn't really good - perhaps you aren't walking fast enough to match the "update " rate on the screen - perhaps there is a set-up parameter that I dodn't have set properly (it IS a new unit to me). Sometimes "Lisa" attempted to route us down closed off "walking streets" - and once down a one way street in the university section of Bologna.

Overall, really, really minor points in a very impressive overall performance.