Garmin Nuvi 200w Sat Nav System

Advantages: Easy to use, does what it's suppsed to do!
Disadvantages: Satellite pairing takes ages, no mains charger!

...of the past, much like tv's. After extensive researching, price comparison and review reading, I came across the Garmin Nuvi 200w, and a sat nav system that seemed to impress greatly, so i decided to take the plunge and bought one. Much like many of the reviews I had read on the Nuvi 200w, my first impressions of it were very good. I bought the system off the Littlewoods website, as it had been reduced in a seasonal sale that they were having. This meant that the system was on offer for around £30 less than on any other reputable site that I could find it on. The product was well packaged, securely and compactly fitted to an inner cardboard shelf, that meant that the sat nav was unable to move or rattle within the box, therefor limiting the chance of damage during postal delivery to a minimum. Included in the box was the Nuvi 200w sat nav system...

danmclovin 27.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Garmin Nüvi 200W

Garmin nuvi 200W

Advantages: small compact, easy to put in pocket or bag.
Disadvantages: Low battery life. No home charger. Need to charge from car

...walking around and using it is ok as long as you have a fully charged battery. The life of which really only gave me about hour and a half. To use in the car a little disc the size of the windscreen sucker is also given so that can stick to your dashboard then the sucker for the holder can fasten to that so no tell tale signs on the window that you have a devise somewhere in the car. There are better sat navs out there but its what you pay for really. I paid £139:99p and think that you can get more for your money with other units....

kindlyraccoon 29.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Garmin NÜVI 200 W

Garmin NÜVI 200 - cheap but cheerful SatNav

Advantages: price, maps, points of interest, speed camera warnings
Disadvantages: extra maps/updates pricy

...Just prior to going on holiday this year we decided to treat ourselves to a SatNav. Most of the bells & whistles the more pricy units have wasn't of interest to us, we just wanted something basic. My wife had used a TomTom in someone else's car so we wandered down to Halfords with something similar in mind. Having spent half an hour perusing about 20 different units none of which stood out, we grabbed a passing salesbod and asked for help. He immedietly pointed to the Garmin and rattled off a dozen reasons why, most of which blurred into a realisation that the stickers that showed the features on each unit were lying i.e. he said it had post code navigation, the stickers said not. Anyway, time was moving on so we grabbed one and paid the £165 it cost at the time. Having got home, the first thing I did was go online and check other...

ilaskey 31.08.2007 · Read review
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Get Safely from A to B with Garmin nuvi 1340

Advantages: Not as annoying as I thought
Disadvantages: Pricey

...is also widescreen, not sure why they would do this on a sat nav, but I guess it?s a bonus feature? The 4.4 inch display is easy to read at any angle and is sunlight-readable. The 1340 comes with UK, ROI & Europe mapping, and finds any location via postcode, street name or point of interest. Another reason I got this as we are off to France soon and I promised to do my fair share of the driving! Go Green! For all you eco warriors?. The Garmin nuvi 1340 can save you petrol/disel and money with ecoRoute. ecoRoute is a green feature that calculates the most fuel-efficient route, tracks fuel usage and more. So not only do I get from A to B safely I?m also doing my bit for the environment. Summary of Features UK, ROI & Europe street level mapping Ultra portable pocket design - only 15mm thick! (very chic) Lane Guideance...

jinxyjo 24.07.2009 · Read review
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Sat nav for a bicycle?

Advantages: Effective, efficient and useful - reasonably priced.
Disadvantages: No facility for an easy battery change of replacement.

...Intro. Did you hear about the Syrian lorry driver heading towards Gibralter - who managed to log his destination on his SatNav to Gibralter Point near Skegness?? The first few such stories hitting the media in the early days of this technology were quite funny. Now they dither between the unbelievable and the stupid ! How can a Merc driver pilot her sports coupe along a track marked for 4x4's, drive it into a ford without even having a look first at its depth, and end up writing the car off in the river ? ... and then blame the SatNav?? SatNavs were not created to drive the car or take over from all driving skills and common sense - they are a help in finding your position and direction of travel. So you will all have a laugh when I tell you I BOUGHT MINE FOR MY BICYCLE.! 1 Why The Nuvi? Well I chose Garmin as the manufacturer...

trevorbrock 06.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Garmin nuvi 205WT

Easy to use, easy to see, easy to love GPS

Advantages: Great price, effortless to use
Disadvantages: none, really

...After doing a lot of online research, I decided to get the Garmin nuvi 200W. The "W" stands for widescreen. It has the exact features ass the Nuvi 200, but a larger screen. We were in Disneyworld, (you can buy additional countries files, to add to your system), and wanted to go to a Build-a-bear store. Not only did it find the store, but give us wonderful directions, that saved us miles over they way we thought we wanted to go. The "voice" is easy to understand. The touch screen is very responsive and easy to use. I am not a "techie", and worried I would have trouble learning how to use this. It is so easy, a child could use it. The graphics are bright. You can buy a cable on Ebay very inexpensively, that allows you to download graphics for free, and also programs you can buy. I don't know why the cable isn't included, but it...

feggie 20.02.2008 · Read review
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No slip shod slap dash sloppy sat nav . . .

Advantages: So simple to use.
Disadvantages: Easy target for thieves.

...... Garmin was one of the GPS devices I looked at when deciding which sat nav to go for. I actually went for the TomTom. As I compared several models I feel I am qualified to write a review on this Sat Nav. Garmin is well known for Satnav, but they also make Mobile phones, Laptops, PDAs, 2 way radios, and even dog tracking systems. They do echo sounders for boats, as well as chartplotters, fishfinders, and even radar sets. They are a "new" company (1989) and have a stong foothold in the navigation market. Garmin call this a personal travel assistant, this is an entry level job, but I tend to think that is just a marketing trick to make you want the next model. The device comes already pre-loaded with maps covering the whole of Europe. It has the usual touch screen and is of course very slim. The database is already loaded...

smudgeybabes 21.07.2007 (26.02.2009) · Read review
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Review of Garmin nuvi 250

Garmin Nuvi 610T, perfect every time...

Advantages: Quick, clear, easy to use, multi functions, bluetooth, connects with mobile for hands free
Disadvantages: None

...The Garmin Nuvi 610T is a very good sat nav unit. In the box you receive the unit itself, windscreen mount, charger leads, cd rom, usb pc connecting cable, instruction manual, a dashboard mount and a tmc aerial. On receiving the unit it was incredibly easy to set up. In fact straight from the box its ready to go once you've attached it to the windscreen, it simply takes a few moments to locate satellites and establish where it is. The windscreen mounting bracket is of good quality, the plastic is robust and in 6 months the suction cup hasn't worked loose at all; its still exactly where I placed it initially. You get a decent length of lead on the charging cable that fits into any standard 12V cigarette lighter socket. The tmc lead is also a decent enough length and comes with two suction cups to keep it neatly attached to...

Speakeeze 22.08.2009 · Read review
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garmin nuvi 200

Advantages: easy to use
Disadvantages: lacks traffic and map updates

...used my garmin nuvi now for 1 year and a half, being an hgv driver was not sure with sat nav and this was my second unit and heard lots of bad storys of drivers getting stuck! but this machine is bang on with getting you to your destionation, either that be in a city or out in the country side, most of the time i checked between maps and the sat nav unit and 99% it was always taken you a safe route. screen is good and clear.. voice is nice and loud with the 12v power source, but is really quiet when the machine is using its own battery. used mine in europe with no problems but had to buy new map to cover this, was not a problem, just got new disc off garmins web site and installed it into machine. nuvi came with a free trail of speed cam's, and work very well and pick nearly all i went past up, but when trail was over was...

chrisscott94 15.01.2009 · Read review
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Garmin Nuvi 250 Satnav (/GPS)

Advantages: Touch-screen, USB, Card-slot, Mapsource compatability
Disadvantages: Bad maps, immediate next turn direction, no variable POI proximity,

...Edit: My review here is based on the Nuvi-250 (non-widescreen version). I bought one of these recently as my old ipaq-based TomTom is getting more outdated each day and there doesn't seem to be a reasonably-priced way to update it. I have to say I was expecting better. The manual is small because there aren't as many features as you get with TomTom. For example TomTom allows you to set the distance between your POI and it's alert sounding. This Garmin seems to sound the alert at it's own preset distance warning which you can't change from the menu system. It also seems to take a while to find the satellites. We went to our local park on saturday which is about a mile from home and we were practically on the car-park before it locked on. The worst part though was how innacurate the maps seem to be. On one trip, It didn't have...

cport80 19.05.2008 (14.07.2008) · Read review
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