Garmin Nuvi 680

Summary: Garmin put together a wonderfull GPS. The mapping is generally right on. Traffic is immediate and responsive. The MSN direct is awesome! Saving money on gas with the nearist gas ...

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Summary: Garmin put together a wonderfull GPS. The mapping is generally right on. Traffic is immediate and responsive. The MSN direct is awesome! Saving money on gas with the nearist gas station feature with the cheapist gas has probably paid for itself already. Movie times are accurate and current another great feature.

The Gps reciever had never once lost reception in the three months I have used the product. I even took it inside my walk in closed and shut the door for ten minutes and came back to it to find it still have all of its satelites. where my older model had zero.

Very easy to mount and unmount. Power cord plugs into the mount rather than the gps so its more of a easy dock station for quick release.

Some routing errors caused for unnessicary delays in route even with no traffic, and some inaccurate mapping but for the most part its dead on.

Good product, would recomend to anyone looking for a gps.

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Summary: Just purchased this GPS last week and it is totally great!! It is an upgraded version of the nuvi 660, which I also had. Garmin is the leader in the ...

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Summary: Just purchased this GPS last week and it is totally great!! It is an upgraded version of the nuvi 660, which I also had. Garmin is the leader in the class. I am the owner of a limo business and have the Nuvi 680's in all of my cars. It is user friendly and very accurate. I shopped around on the internet and I found the lowest price at www.SDcommodities.com 1-718-921-9100 with fast shipping..

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Summary: Well this is my 3rd model of the Garmin Nuvi family.

What can I say. They all have the same maps the software is basily the same when it comes

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Summary: Well this is my 3rd model of the Garmin Nuvi family.

What can I say. They all have the same maps the software is basily the same when it comes to the navagation. For the value of the dollar I'd say stick with the 350 and I say that for one reason. The traffic services on the 660 and 680 are not impressive.

I can live without the poi's but I really wanted the traffic to be accurate. First I tried the 660. Not one alert was accurate. it would say traffic and there was none.

I went to purchase a 680 today. 1 out of 2 is an honor at this point. However where it did find an accident there was one but the traffic was moving. The other one was a false alarm. As far as the data base of the poi's it never did me any good. I was better off calling 411 then looking for a store.The navagation is accurate the screen is nice. The few gas stations I went to check the prices out were accurate and it did find the movie theathers with the moives and times so it's at least a better value than the 660. I'm hoping the traffic turns out better than the tmc traffic.

This unit is good if you just use it as a GPS and plug in the exact address you are going to. Please be advised through that the mapping software could be off a little when it comes to the exact location of the house or business you are going to. For example 123 main st. it might take you to 150 main. So when you are on the block look for the addresses by eye. Getting to the destination is great.

I paid the same price for this unit (the 680 and I did for the 660. You do get a bigger bang for the buck on this. however the nuvi 350 without the traffic alert system was the real value because it was affordable and it was good and the whole unit was useful.

I will update further on the 680 as time goes on. I will be selling the 660 on e-bay so... there you have it

Thank you for reading my review

Greg

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Summary: I am really considering returning it even with the 10% fee.
Having a lot of problems with MSN reception, don't like the fact that the receiver is in the
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Summary: I am really considering returning it even with the 10% fee.
Having a lot of problems with MSN reception, don't like the fact that the receiver is in the power cable, would like to check traffic as I am going to my car to save time and have my next destination calculated by the time I get in the car. Instead I have to waste precious time. Would like to be able to close the antenna and leave it on the charger in the car to not get 'lost satellite reception' messages when I am sitting in a parking building. Gas prices say '2 days ago' or even '4 days ago'. When turned on takes almost a minute to load maps, wish I could limit the maps loaded to the areas I drive and not the whole country. When I do get traffic signals about an accident ahead I have gotten off the freeway and into worse traffic. Calculated arrival times can be really off by up to twice the time. For somebody that has several destinations a day, it is not the timesaver I hoped. It is odd to hear interstate fourhundred and five instead of four o five; sometimes says S.E. instead of south east.
I have the volume on max and have trouble hearing it at times, the FM transmitter does not work for my car (my antenna is on the trunk), and anyway, I like to listen to the radio while I drive and you can't do both. Haven't even tried the bluetooth cell phone connection because I have a bluetooth headset

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Summary: I was originally looking into getting the 660, but wanted a better traffic feature. MSN Direct included with the 680 is exactly the answer I wanted. Still get all the ...

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Summary: I was originally looking into getting the 660, but wanted a better traffic feature. MSN Direct included with the 680 is exactly the answer I wanted. Still get all the great features of the 660 now with the ability to recognize traffic from MSN Direct.

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