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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $589.27
Buy New: $199.99
You Save: $389.28 (66%)
New (68) Used (1) Refurbished (4) from $167.99
Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 117
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 4.8 x 0.8 x 2.9
nv:Type: Receiver
Waypoints: 500
Display: TFT
Touch Screen: Yes
Voice: Yes
Expansion Slots: SD Card
Battery Type: Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery
Battery Life: 5 hours
Legal Disclaimer: Sale Ends: 05-11-2008. You may return or exchange merchandise purchased from Macy's @ Amazon by mail only. Certain items are covered by warranty as indicated. To obtain a copy of the warranty prior to purchase, please write to: macys.com Customer Service Dept.; P.O. Box 8215; Mason, OH 45040; Small Ticket Department-Warranty;
MPN: Nuvi 250W
Model: Nuvi 250W
UPC: 753759072162
EAN: 0053759072163
ASIN: B000REECKS
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Garmin Nuvi 200W - Great GPS unit July 10, 2008
This is a great little GPS. I live across the border from Canada, and needed the North American (and not just US, as the 200w has)maps.
The item works great. Sometimes it takes a minute or 2 to acquire the satellites, but other than that has been great.
Never let me down, but was missing a couple little handy features July 10, 2008
I used this Garmin for almost a year before my car got broken into and it got stolen (side note: if anyone lives in an urban area, I recommend getting the friction dassh mount...I left my car on a street in Manhattan for about 20 minutes, and the only thing on my dashboard was the small black mounting disk, and my car got broken into and the GPS was stolen, along with other valuables. The friction dash mount is a great investment, you can hide it easily and leave no trace of the fact you own a GPS.)
It never led me down the wrong street, its arrival times were always accurate, and its routes were almost always perfectly chosen. I never had any functional problems, and the fact that the display automatically switches between night and day display depending on the time is very handy. The maps were very detailed, I usually had great reception, etc etc.
So why did I only give it 4 stars? I just recently bought a new GPS and decided to go with the Tom Tom. The tom tom is slightly less reliable in terms of choosing routes to take, but the Garmin lacked a few tiny features that I really wish it had.
The main feature it lacked was the inability to choose to avoid certain routes along your destination. With the Tom Tom, you can look at the whole travel route, pick one certain road anywhere in the route, and choose to avoid it. The garmin doesn't offer you that feature, it just offers you a simple "recalculate route" function - BUT, it only recalculates it to avoid the very next road you're about to take, meaning you could eventually end up back on the road you wanted to avoid! Not that big a deal, but I live around the Westchester/NYC area and I know certain routes are trouble for traffic and/or other inconveniences, and it was a pain not being about to choose what to avoid.
The battery life is fantastic also.
Overall, the Garmin is very very reliable and never steered me wrong, but the Tom Tom (although slightly less reliable) has more little adjustable features that I liked.
 takes forever to get signal July 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
when I first received this product, I liked everything about it--the big screen, the loud speaker, and all the features come with it. However, once I turned it on after not using it for a couple weeks, it took a LONG time to get the satellite reception, several hours!! I could have arrived at the destination and come back home with that much time. I ended up just looking up directions online. And this same problem occured every time after not using it for a while. Then I tried using it on a daily basis for a week, it worked fine. Signal was received quickly after turned on every time.
So I guess if you use it on a very frequent basis,such as daily, you should be fine with it. But if you only use it when travelling to places you are not familiar with, I suggest you turn it on the night before and give it hours to receive the signal, so the next morning it won't take long to receive signal again.
I think this is a big flaw for GPS unit, because most of us don't drive to places we don't know on an everyday base, and most of us who buy this product do not have built-in GPS in our cars. So the only time we carry it and use it is when we have to go to places we are not familiar with. And if it takes this thing several hours to be able to navigate us, it simply doesn't work!!
it will get you there July 6, 2008
This is a great little device with many helping features. I don't know why I managed to get by without it. This makes traveling so much more enjoyable, knowing your not going astray. This makes for one happy trip.
 Garmin Nuvi 250w July 5, 2008
I shopped and read reviews on this for a while prior to buying it. I noticed you can get the unit for a few dollars less other places , but most of them were refurbished units. I didn't feel comfortable with this due to possible problems. who knows how a factory recertified unit was treated prior to return, could be new could be abused and left in a hot car for days, this can affect the battery life and charging. I was also concerned with screen scratches.
Buying it at Amazone was the best Price/risk factor. Garmin allowed a free update for the unit and this was great.
No risk at all buying a new one from Aamzon.
If you save $30, sounds good but most refurbished units had a shipping charge which brings down the savings. Now you are talking about $10 or$15, you may end up with a bad unit which will cost you shipping to send back and get repaired.
The download for the update does take long , apx 3 hrs in my system.
The unit works great, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to work it. It does everything it is suppose to do for the user. I like the wide screen version.It is a great buy , free shipping arrived in 2 days.
if you get one you won't get lost.
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