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 Great Product for this Price January 4, 2009
After using it for several month, I am satisfied with this product. However, the only downside has to be the acquiring satellite time, which can take up to 10 mins especially during weekends. If you don't mind sitting inside your car waiting for a signal during hot summer or cold winter, then this is a great product for you. On the other hand, a TOMTOM GPS usually takes less than 30 secs to acquire satellite. Nevertheless, the TOMTOM does very bad in telling directions (When I say very bad, I meant it). Overall, I think this small GPS indeed worth the original price. After using both Garmin GPS and TOMTOM GPS, I would recommend the Garmin ones because they are dsigned to give drivers an accurate dirction, which TOMTOM GPS falls way behind.
P.S. The car mount that included in this package was very easy to use and I loved it!
 Nice GPS for Cheap!!! January 2, 2009
I want to further comment on the Nuvi 200. I just received this as a X-mas gift and am very happy with it. Great unit for such a great price. I think the best feature is the 'recalculate' feature. When putting in an address and make a wrong turn, the Nuvi is great and FAST at recalculating directions within a second or two once making a wrong turn. I was surprised for a $100 unit, how incredibly quick it got me turned around and/or found a new route to my destination.
Great GPS unit!!!
Rated 5/5 for price and functionalibility!!!!
accurate, good value December 30, 2008
Purchased this for a gift for my husband. We have had fun reviewing the choices of restaurants, detours, look forward to a trip that we can really use the directions. Good value for what we needed.
DJC Nuvi Review December 29, 2008
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This product is terrific...it has all of the functon I needed at a great price. It is easy to use right out of the box!
Buy the 205 Nuvi Instead December 29, 2008
This is the basic Garmin Automotive GPS and it works well. The preloaded map is the latest that Garmin has (2009). I discovered a disconcerting problem when I asked the GPS for the nearest hospital from my home. It came back with the correct hospital but calculated the distance as the crow flies (about 1.5 miles) rather the driving distance (about 8 miles).
Garmin is phasing out the 200 Nuvi. There is an updated version (205 Nuvi) that has more features and costs less than the 200 Nuvi unless you get a good deal as I did.
BTW, Garmin doesn't bother to tell you that a standard mini 5-pin USB cable (like the one that you use for a digital camera) will charge the battery when plugged into you computer. Since it comes with a cigarette-light adapter, you don't really need to buy a 110 volt charger.
January 04, 2009 followup: GPSMagazine recently published a comparison of Nuvi200 and the Nuvi205 WWW.gpsmagazine.com/2008/12/garmin_nuvi_200_vs_205.php . I bought my 200 Nuvi from WalMart.com less than a month ago (for less than $100). I apparently have some crossover model which has most but not all of the features of the 205 Nuvi. It has a microSD, not a regular SD slot which means that you may have to purchase another card to use the expanded memory. From the GPSMagazine article, I have found that all of the display features of my 200 Nuvi are the same as the 205 Nuvi (not the 200 Nuvi illustrated in the article) except for the address page which does not give route information as doe the 205 Nuvi. Apparently my 200 Nuvi does not have other enhancements of the 205 Nuvi such as FM Traffic Compatibility, Photo Navigation, Digital Elevation and a few others. I am still very satisfied with my Nuvi 200.
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