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The speed camera thing for me worked, but it won't take me on the highways. Does it do this for the states as well.Garmin folks told me to plug in detour to the highways.
It's great for navigating throughout the system iteself and all it's options, but sucks navigating the roads, where it counts. Well, it'll only let me use one, then it wants to replace the previous.This thing does suck.
I am stationioned in England and bought the 670 just for the US/Euro map combo. NEVER staying on the highways.
While here, I have traveled much though the country and mainland Europe only to do so taking back roads.
I keep getting told "at round a bout, take 2nd exit." or the like.
I've had my Nuvi 670 since they first came out - it was very expensive at the time, so I expected a lot from it. The audio kept going into distortion and then cutting out completely. Slight overcast skys or clouds seemed to kill the GPS satellite reception.The internal battery crapped out on me in less than a year. I tried to nav from San Jose to an address in Petaluma today.
not Garmin) for my next unit. After a while, it stopped giving me any audible directions at all. Of course, there's no warranty on it any more.Overall, I'm not a happy customer. All in all, I feel like I wasted a grand on this one. Will seriously look elsewhere (i.e. I was dissapointed to find that the traffic info was subscription based - and at a rip off price at that.I was also dissapointed that the maps seemed to be out of date right from the get go, and they expected me to PAY for new ones.RX sensitivity never seemed to be as good as my older Garmin units or the Pioneer AVIC unit I installed in one of my other cars.
No amount of powering off/on made any difference - the thing is toast. Better luck next time. It lasts for about a minute before shutting off these days. No joy.
I even used it recently while driving in the UK and it worked perfectly.My only issue with the device is that the bluetooth doesn't support my phone, a Blackberry 8310. Bought this GPS as an "open box special" from Amazon. So, I'll wait patiently while Garmin resolves this - however, you need to check the compatibility list on their website before purchasing. Bluetooth capability is one of the reasons I bought the phone. While it didn't ship with any manuals (a bit disappointed), its user interface is rather intuitive. Great features - everything you want in a GPS.
The refurb unit came with all the "in the box" goodies that a new one has, and cosmetically could not be told from new.This product worked flawlessly right out of the box.it's loaded with Bluetooth, FM tranmitter, picture viewer, and mp3 play in addition to the terrific GPS features.The only minor negative is that the FM transmitter on the U.S. The nuvi 670 was purchased thru Amazon and sold by one of their contractors. I automatically pauses the MP3 when the GPS wants to talk and likewise when the phone rings with bluetooth.Overall a terrific buying experience. model 670 has rather low power, but once a satisfactory FM channel is found with a relatively close car antenna it worked great. It is a factory refurbished model 670 with North American and European maps, both the 2009 issues that I paid about $210. Although it's "last years" model the 670 has longer battery life and most all the features of the current nuvi 775 which list at close to a grand.
You also get a free update that is redeemable once. This product was purchased because we went on vacation and borrowed a smaller version of this product. I would recommend this to anyone that travels. It is definitely worth its money. We then researched and noticed this particular product had everything that the other did and more. This thing is absolutely great.
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