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| Garmin nüvi 660 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator | 
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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $699.99
Buy New: $291.00
You Save: $408.99 (58%)
New (65) Used (2) Refurbished (6)
Avg. Customer Rating:  1197 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
Format: Cd
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 6.5 x 6.5
nv:Type: Car Kit
Waypoints: 500 with name and graphic symbol
Trip Computer: Average Speed
Trip Computer: Resettable Odometer
Trip Computer: Timers
Trip Computer: Maximum Speed
Inputs: 12/24 Vdc
Display: Color
Touch Screen: Yes
Voice: Yes
Battery Life: 7 hours
Antenna: Flip-up patch
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 010-00540-00
Model: 010-00540-00
UPC: 053759065110
EAN: 0753759061265
ASIN: B000H49LXQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Garmin GPS July 11, 2008
The Garmin650 GPS was very helpful on my trip, but the one feature I found that I think it should have is a back button/start over.
Very happy July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wish I had a choice of voices. We are sick of this woman's voice, but very happy with the rest of the product.
Garmin 660 July 10, 2008
I like this Garmin a lot. It is large enough to read without my reading glasses. It is easy to program.
 Garmin 660 July 9, 2008
I love this GPS it is very handy and very easy to used will recommended to friend.
 Expensive with sub par performance of extra features. July 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had this for a while now. This unit doesn't live up to my expectations. I had a Magellan Maestro 4040 before and was very much pleased with the Magellan. The options that 4040 lacks is the FM Transmitter, Picture Viewer and Audio player. With these extras and Garmin name comes to about $200 more than the 4040.
The most important thing that nuvi lacks is the "route exclusions" from the list of directions. You can only exclude the current route by using the detour function but not the 3rd or 4th road from the driving directions list.
The FM transmitter is not good at all. My Belkin iPod FM transmitter is much better when connected at the same frequency. Bluetooth connection with phone is good from the internal speaker but drains the battery as with any GPS. As the FM transmitter is bad, Bluetooth connection using FM transmitter and car stereos is worse.
I tried the three month subscription of live traffic using FM receiver which is also the charger for the device. Unfortunately, this shorted the fuse in my car. I bought a bunch of fuses just in case. So far, the charger burnt three of my fuses. I will probably buy a USB charger for charging the GPS than the FM Transmitter charger that I got with the unit.
Bottom line:
Pay for the brand name and extras, which are not worth the extra price.
Pros:
Does the basic GPS functionality pretty good.
Cool features like FM transmitter, picture viewer and MP3 Player.
Cons:
- Higher Price
- FM transmitter is very very noisy.
- Most Important: Doesn't have Route Exclusion.
- Volume out of the box is very low.
- Suction Holder falls off occasionally.
- If Bluetooth on nuvi is enabled and if the cell phone (already paired with nuvi earlier) is connected to a Bluetooth headset instead of nuvi, there is a pop up message, that comes up every 30 seconds occupying the whole screen, saying that the phone is not connected. Gets annoying as it keeps coming until the phone is connected or Bluetooth is disabled.
Places where this can be improved using a software update:
- Implement A2DP Bluetooth stereo profile so that one can stream the stereo sound from cell phone music player to the unit and then to the FM transmitter. May be this one is just v1.1 as Bluetooth 1.2 does support A2DP profile for streaming audio.
- Put Route exclusion in the software.
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