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| Garmin nuvi 200 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $419.98
Buy Refurbished: $113.35
You Save: $306.63 (73%)
New (68) Used (12) Refurbished (11)
Avg. Customer Rating:  496 reviews
Sales Rank: 222
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Color: SILVER
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Display Size: 3.5
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 3.8 x 0.8 x 2.8
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: Nuvi 200
Model: Nuvi 200
UPC: 753759065607
EAN: 0753759065607
ASIN: B000NVZE5M
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fantastic Car GPS; Basic, but great November 23, 2007
31 out of 31 found this review helpful
I bought this for my wife. (She has found my long love of gps units a little baffling until now, but she LIKES having this in her car now.)
I have owned five Garmin gps over the years: aviation, hiking & car.
While the nuvi 200 doesn't have many of the detailed options the older 2650 has, it does have 95% of the functions most people would want & use in their car.
Plus side:
It's small, light & has a great, bright screen.
Has ALL of USA maps & points of interest like food & hotels
Very simple navigation menus & option menus
It announces turns (but cannot pronounce street names)
It has a good battery, to use on foot for a while.
It has a very good antenna built inside. (on my 2650, I added an external wired antenna to my roof for fast satellite acquisition; no need on the 200)
Maintains reception on wooded Atlanta streets.
It routes fast and recalculates fast; looks up addresses fast; Seems about as fast as a more expensive unit.
You can save waypoints (favorites) of all your special places you go or might go.
The windshield mount works great (has never come close to loosening up)
You can send it waypoints using Garmin mapsource software or g7towin software, but it's not as obvious. It's almost like they downplay this capability so you buy a fancier model? You can backup waypoints (favorites) to computer.
Can add photos.
It has 5 "map detail" settings.
It does have a pedestrian mode, which I liked when I took it hiking.
Doesn't have:
It doesn't pronounce street names (must buy fancier model for that)
You can't customize data displays at the 2 bottom corners. While navigating to a place, it shows arrival time & distance to next turn in the corners. Then their is a pop up to announce specific turns. (Fancier units allow you to display other things, like total distance, etc., and control when pop ups happen) While not navigating it shows speed (Fancier units can display the road you are on, and the next cross street- useful sometimes at night, but I suspect most owners would not bother with all the option menus to get this set up on their fancier unit)
Can't attach an external antenna (doesn't seem to need it)
I don't think you can put Garmin topo maps onto it, but I have not tried.
 small size is great....but features????? November 23, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have had the nuvi 200 for about 3 months now, this is replacing a TomTom unit.
The Nuvi is a basic GPS in that it will find a location and be ready for the next use. I have used this all over town and on several vacations and as an overall it has performed well.......
With that said, there are several issues that I have found that although tolerable definitely leave some distaste with me. First off,
*the POI are outdated and overly difficult to use, several locations we attempted to find or visit either were not correct locations or didn't exist at all. When looking for a destination, we needed to call information and manually type the location, and the Nuvi has no way to edit the POI's so its to the favorites.
*Driving directions, I traveled on vacation to a city I had little familiarity with the Nuvi definitely got us to the town but underperformed in the actual location finding. Apparently a road was eliminated blocking the location from the map, this would have been acceptable except it was done over 10 years ago.
*My biggest complaint pertaining to the above was the map tracking. SEVERAL times on the trip, the Nuvi would route us severely out of the way to destinations case in point; we were traveling to a beach location apparently 17 miles from our current beach location, the nuvi took us back to the highway, through a weird part of town, back on to the highway then back to the beach......this added 12 miles to a 17 miles trip. In addition, Nuvi will attempt a toll way trip anytime available.
*This unit has no ability to use functions from your PC outside of updates.
Bottom line, if you need a basic GPS the Nuvi is great. If you need functionality and performance this model isn't it. Do I think it was a bad purchase? No, for the size it does what I need but I definitely will consult a map prior to another trip using it.
 My review is 50 - 50 ! November 22, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this product for a cross country drive. It worked great for all my freeway drives. It has some flaws e.g we were driving through Oakland , CA. It just couldnt navigate the street names because the city is not a modern-planned city. Whenever it gets in non-grid patten city it behaves weird either the navigation will hang or it will give you wrong directions. It is also not very accurate e.g if you are driving through a road parallel to any freeway it will think you are on freeway.
Great value for the dollar November 22, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Works like a charm. Extreemly simple to operate. I purchase it for my girlfriend who is a realtor. She never gets lost looking for address. I bought the 360 and the 200 does the exact same thing except for bluetooth capabilities. I highly recommend the any Garmin Nuvi. You really can't go wrong.
Garmin nuvi 200 GPS November 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Invaluable - especially in a large city like San Francisco. We tried our son's more expensive model, which verbalizes street names. It mispronounces so many names that it is a nuisance and just a distraction. We have already used it on several trips, and it saved much time in locating places off the beaten path. We may never have found those places without GPS, or spent twice as much time driving to finally locate them. Highly recommend.
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