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Amazon.com Product Description
Navigate both North America and Europe without loading more maps with the affordable nuevi 270. This entry-level Personal Travel Assistant makes traveling so simple. For even more mapping options, nuevi 250 and nuevi 200 offer less map coverage at a lower price. Like all nuevi 200-series members, the 270 features an easy-to-use colorful touchscreen and ultra-slim design--perfect for everyday navigation. 
The nuevi 270 comes preloaded with maps for North America and Europe, and features an easy-to-use touchscreen and ultra-slim design. | 
Configurable vehicle icons let you select car-shaped graphics. | 
nuevi 270 accepts custom points of interest (POIs). View larger. | Smart, Powerful Design
The nuevi 270 is built with a high-sensitivity WAAS-enabled GPS receiver for extreme accuracy, as well as an SD card slot for storing your media and additional navigation tools, and a USB interface for loading data. All this is wrapped up in a package that measures 3.8 x 2.8 x .8 inches (W x H x D) and weighs just 5.2 ounces. The nuevi 270's 3.5-inch (diagonal) display is touchscreen-enabled, making it a cinch to control the device with your fingertips. A rechargeable lithium-ion battery provides up to five hours of battery life depending on use. Navigate with Ease
nuevi 270 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps, including a hefty points of interest (POIs) database with hotels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more. Simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, and nuevi takes you there with 2D or 3D maps and turn-by-turn voice directions. In addition, nuevi 270 accepts custom points of interest (POIs), such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs. Go Beyond Navigation
Navigation is just the beginning. nuevi 270 features many travel tools including JPEG picture viewer, 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 vehicle icons that let you select car-shaped graphics to show your location on the map. Optional plug-in SD cards for our line of Garmin Travel Guides and Garmin SaversGuide provide detailed data for attractions and information on nearby merchants offering discounts, so you can customize nuevi for your travel needs. Note: Like most USB Mass Storage Devices, the nuevi is not compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me.
What's in the Box
nuevi 270, preloaded City Navigator NT for North America and Europe (full coverage), vehicle suction cup mount, vehicle power cable, dashboard disk, and set up and go guide.
| Customer Reviews: Read 145 more reviews...
 Great buy, even better price January 6, 2009
I work in Europe (Spain) right now but wanted a GPS that had maps of USA as well for when I go back to the US. I've read reviews that sometimes this GPS unit had trouble picking up satellites, however, this unit worked right out of the box. Within a minute, the unit picked up satellites and worked great. I was using a work issued Garmin 350T GPS before, and that required an external antenna to aid in picking up satellites. The 270 requires no external antenna and would even pick up satellites inside my bedroom. It's compact, attached right on my front window, and worked great. While I have not traveled outside of Spain to road-test it, it's worked great in Spain, even accurately guiding through small streets and back roads. When I researched this unit, the 270 was going for $399 retail. I paid $130 for it and got free shipping, so I got a great deal on it through Amazon.com's website. While this unit doesn't speak road names, I found I really don't need that feature. I would recommend this GPS model for others who require maps for both Europe and the USA. Upon purchase and registering the unit with Garmin's website, Garmin updated my maps to City Navigator 2009, which was another added bonus. This is the first GPS unit I've purchased with my own money and it's been great so far. I did not give the unit a 5 star rating because I have no had a chance to test outside of my city.
 Great for Europe January 5, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Served us well on a trip to Spain, Malaga and Cordoba areas, even Gibraltar. Not only showed us the roads and gave directions, even warned of location of "speed cameras."
great in usa..not so great in Italy January 5, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love the Garmen 270 in the usa. It is easy to read and I use it frequently. However it did not help in Venice, Italy or Florence, Italy. I could not get oriented in either city.
Garmin GPS makes great gift.a January 2, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought one for my son and one for my father-in-law for christmas. It has been very easy to use for both. I was worried about giving it to my father-in-law because he is not very good with high tech gadgets but he has been able to use it with no troble. The price is also a great value.
easy to start, easy to use January 1, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I live in Brazil and wanted to buy A GPS navigator that could be used both in the USA and in Europe. So far I did use it only in yhe USA and the experience has been a very good one. Since I will be using the product on rented/leased cars I bought also the portable dashbord support, that I fully approved too.
Resuming: very easy to install and excellent funcionality.
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