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• Dimensions WxDxH 4.9″ x .9″ x 2.9″
• Weight 6.2 oz
• Display 4.3″ WQVGA

With a gorgeous widescreen display, the Garmin nüvi 660 GPS Personal Travel helper is your answer to the call of adventure. A sleek navigator and a keen travel helper, the nüvi 660 is preloaded with greatly in depth City Navigator NT road maps for the complete United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. This map database features almost six million points of interest POIs, as well as hotels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, and attractions, and the data is offered by NAVTEQ, a world leader in premium quality mapping.This preloaded navigator brings all this great map data to your fingertips with a super bright, 4.3 inch widescreen display for improved map looking at, day or night. Use the touch screen interface to choose places, look up POIs, and play your beloved MP3s and audio books. The display also helps you control hands free calling, traffic alerts, and the FM transmitter, all from the screen of your personal travel helper.

Which nüvi is Best for You?: Click here to see a fast, simple comparison of features for all Garmin nuvi GPS navigators

Wider screen allows you to see more of what is around. Compare these real size views of a 3 inch diagonal screen And a 4.3 inch diagonal widescreen

Widescreen See Better, See More
The widescreen format gives you 70% more real screen area than a 3.5 inch screen. Mainly this translates into a better view of the area through which you’re driving. This is particularly useful in showing you what parks, restaurants, ATM, gas stations, etc. Are close, or in letting you know if a detour is a smart idea. As well, the device itself is bigger, meaning controls on the screen are more widely spaced and somewhat easier to push.

FM Transmitter Hear Better, Hear More
Instead of straining your ears to hear turn by turn directions or your beloved MP3s, you may be able to enjoy wireless FM audio transmission via the nüvi 660’s wireless FM transmitter. Tune your car’s radio to the proper station and you will hear all the nüvi’s audio, as well as voice prompts, MP3s, audio books, and more, directly through your vehicle’s stereo system. The nüvi 660 will include many “must have” entertainment and travel tools, as well as digital music and audio book playback, JPEG picture viewer, currency converters, and more. All these great features make the nüvi 660 a complete Personal Travel helper.

First Rate Map Data
The nüvi 660 comes prepared to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps, as well as a hefty POI 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. Garmin gets its map data from NAVTEQ, a world leader in premium quality mapping.

In addition, the nüvi 660 accepts custom points of interest POIs, like school zones and safety cameras and allows you to set closeness alerts to warn you of forthcoming POIs

Important note about map updates: caused by our high volume of sales, nearly every Garmin movable GPS navigator sold by will come with the last map variant. If you ever do need a map update, you may be able to buy one from at our Garmin Store.

Hands Free Calling
In more and more places, it’s becoming illegal to use cell phones while driving without a hands free kit. The nüvi 660’s Bluetooth capability, microphone and speaker lets match it to any bluetooth capable phone to make hands free mobile phone calls. Simply dial the phone number with the nüvi’s touch screen keypad to make a call on a matched phone. To answer an incoming call, just tap the screen and speak into the fitted microphone. Making and taking calls on the road never been easier, or safer. Also, Garmin makes it a breeze to look up and dial numbers from your personalized phone book or tap into your cell phone’s call history log.

Integrated FM Traffic Receiver

Steer clear of traffic with an integrated FM traffic receiver intended to get alerts from TMC Clear Channel about traffic tie ups and road construction that may lie ahead on your path. All you must do is simply touch the screen to view traffic details and you will be prepared to detour around any problem area. And if you end up missing a turn, or you are forced into a detour that isn’t relayed through the traffic receiver, the nüvi’s sophisticated auto routing will get you back on track in no time. In most regions, TMC Clear Channel traffic transmits are uninterrupted —, there is no waiting for scheduled traffic news updates or random alerts. Because traffic transmits are received via a “silent” FM data channel, you may be able to still listen to music or news programming on your car radio without interference from incoming FM traffic data transmissions. A 3 month subscription to TMC Clear Channel’s Total Traffic Network is included with buy of this device. For more info on subscription fees, coverage in individual cities, and traffic data networks in the United Kingdom and Europe, check the Garmin web site.

Easy To Use Interface
Garmin’s interface is a key to their success and one of the things that makes their devices such a pleasure to use. Simple controls and sub screens make it simple to enter or search for places and get data about your trip.

Beyond Navigation

Browse your stored pictures with an easy to use JPEG viewer.

A useful MP3 player allows you to play songs stored on SD memory cards.

Nüvi 250W accepts custom points of interest POIs. View bigger.

Navigation is just the beginning. The nüvi 660 features travel tools as well as JPEG picture viewer, MP3 player, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, calculator and more. It also comes with Garmin Lock, an anti theft feature, and configurable car icons that allow you to choose car shaped graphics to show your place on the map.

This device is matched with optional content plug ins available via SD card, like the Garmin Travel Guides and Garmin SaversGuide supply in depth data for attractions and info on close merchants offering savings, so you may be able to customize nüvi for your travel needs

Garmin also has added the capability for customers to add custom points of interest POI’s from 3rd parties like school zones and safety cameras.

Trick Your GPS Ride

Custom car icons let you ride in style, at least inside your GPS. See more icon options

All Garmin nüvis support configurable car icons. These fun, customized car shaped icons come in a range of colors to add a personal touch to your vehicle’s position on the map.

With this GPS system on board you will be prepared to steer clear of traffic with the integrated FM TMC traffic receiver. The nüvi 770 is intended to get alerts about traffic tie ups and road construction that may lie ahead on your path. All you must do is simply touch the screen to view traffic details and you will be prepared to detour around any problem area. And if you end up missing a turn, or you are forced into a detour that isn’t relayed through the traffic receiver, the nüvi’s sophisticated auto routing will get you back on track in no time.

What’s in the Box
Nüvi 660 GPS navigation system, preloaded City Navigator North, America NT data, car suction cup mount, A/C charger, carrying case, FM traffic receiver/12 volt adapter with 3 month free trial subscription, dashboard disk, USB interface cable, sample language guide content preloaded, sample travel guide, sample MP3s preloaded, sample audio books preloaded, owner’s manual, and a fast reference guide.

Notes

• Optional software for language translation, in depth travel guides, and savings programs let you to customize your nüvi to fit your travel needs
• The FM transmitter feature is only available in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
• This nüvi comes with a free, three month trial for MSN Direct services.
• Like most USB Mass Storage Devices, the nüvi isn’t matched with Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me.

Which nüvi is Best for You?
Note: All nüvis come with in depth NAVTEQ maps containing more than six million pre loaded point of interest places.

	Screen Size Inches W x h	Included Maps			Text to Speech Directions in Real Street Names	Traffic	Bluetooth	Media	FM Transmitter Audio through Car stereo System	Multi Point Routing	Battery Life Hours
		Cont. U.S., Hawaii, and Puerto Rico	AK and Canada	Europe
Nüvi 200	2.8 x 2.1							Photos			Up to 5
Nüvi 200w	3.81 x 2.25							Photos			Up to 5
Nüvi 250	2.8 x 2.1							Photos			Up to 5
Nüvi 250w	3.81 x 2.25							Photos			Up to 5
Nüvi 260	2.8 x 2.1							Photos			Up to 5
Nüvi 260w	3.81 x 2.25							Photos			Up to 5
Nüvi 270	2.8 x 2.1							Photos			Up to 5
Nüvi 350	2.8 x 2.1					FM with opt. Receiver		Photos, MP3s			Up to 8
Nüvi 360	2.8 x 2.1					FM with opt. Receiver		Photos, MP3s			Up to 8
Nüvi 370	2.8 x 2.1					FM receiver Included		Photos, MP3s			Up to 8
Nüvi 650	3.81 x 2.25					FM with opt. Receiver		Photos, MP3s			Up to 7
Nüvi 660	3.81 x 2.25					FM receiver Included		Photos, MP3s			Up to 7
Nüvi 670	3.81 x 2.25					FM receiver Included		Photos, MP3s			Up to 7
Nüvi 680	3.81 x 2.25					MSN receiver Included, 1 year free, FM with opt. Receiver		Photos, MP3s			Up to 7
Nüvi 750	3.81 x 2.25					MSN enhanced With optional Receiver, FM with opt. Receiver		Photos, MP3s			Up to 5
Nüvi 760	3.81 x 2.25					MSN enhanced With optional Receiver, FM with opt. Receiver		Photos, MP3s			Up to 5
Nüvi 770	3.81 x 2.25					MSN enhanced With optional Receiver, FM with opt. Receiver		Photos, MP3s			Up to 5
Nüvi 780	3.81 x 2.25					MSN enhanced Receiver inc., Three months free Receiver, FM with opt. Receiver		Photos, MP3s			Up to 5
Nüvi 850	3.81 x 2.25					MSN enhanced With optional Receiver, FM with opt. Receiver		Photos, MP3s			Up to 4
Nüvi 880	3.81 x 2.25					MSN enhanced Receiver inc., Three months free, FM with opt. Receiver		Photos, MP3s			Up to 4
Nüvi 5000	4.5 x 2.7					MSN enhanced With optional Receiver, FM with opt. Receiver					External Battery Only

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