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info was subscription based - and at a rip off price at that.I was also dissapointed that the maps seemed to be out of date right from the get go, and they expected me to PAY for new ones.RX sensitivity never seemed to be as good as my older Garmin units or the Pioneer AVIC unit I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