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Navigate both North America and Europe without loading more maps with the affordable nüvi 270. This entry-level Personal Travel Assistant makes traveling so simple. For even more mapping options, nüvi 250 and nüvi 200 offer less map coverage at a lower price. Like all nüvi 200-series members, the 270 features an easy-to-use colorful touchscreen and ultra-slim design--perfect for everyday navigation. 
The nüvi 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. | 
nüvi 270 accepts custom points of interest (POIs). View larger. | Smart, Powerful Design
The nüvi 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 nüvi 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
nüvi 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 nüvi takes you there with 2D or 3D maps and turn-by-turn voice directions. In addition, nüvi 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. nüvi 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 nüvi for your travel needs. Note: Like most USB Mass Storage Devices, the nüvi is not compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me.
What's in the Box
nüvi 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.
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Conclusion: A terrific aid in Europe.
Review: We purchased this just before going to Italy, when we found out that the cost of buying it was about equal to the cost of renting it from Hertz for 14 days. It saved us a huge amount of aggravation, as we didn't need to consult maps or try to translate from Italian to English on the fly. I did find that we went a circuitous way on one part of our trip, but we laughed about it--it took us through narrow streets in very non-touristy part of Pompei, but we got to see how the "real" people live. :)
Seriously, it was terrific and we travelled about 1600 km, going from Rome down to Sicily, and it was right on target. Now my husband uses it in the US, and if any of our kids are going to Europe, we will gladly lend it to them. Very portable, detailed and a great value.
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Conclusion: Not perfect, but very good so far
Review: Works very well in US, and better than expected while driving across southern France, especially on major tollways and regional highways. Readily identified nearby gas stations, restaurants, hotels, museums while driving.
Not as good in small towns, and had trouble where to turn on a number of roundabouts (common in France instead of intersections). Not that useful for pedestrian directions, especially if there's a number of one-way streets, as it provides driving directions. Also has trouble connecting with satellites if next to tall buildings.
Biggest negative: still need to buy another USB mini cable to connect it to our computer to download map ugrades (so we were glad it was already loaded with western Europe).
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Conclusion: Good in U.S., Bad in Ireland
Review: Love it for the U.S. It has remote country roads in the middle of South Dakota. When I traveled to Ireland, it was useless. A majority of the roads are misplotted or missing.
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Conclusion: Satellite Reception fine in Paris
Review: The purpose of this review is simply to report that I purchased one of from Amazon in the US and used it for a day or two in Southern California where it worked fine, then took it to Paris, France where it also works just fine walking around. It's first satellite acquisition in the morning sometimes takes a couple minutes, but it always acquires, usually in a few seconds, even in narrow streets with buildings on either side.
I will note that there was an available firmware upgrade for mine that I installed before using it. I mentione this because possibly the issues others have with satellite acquisition are fixed with later firmware.
BTW I'm not new to GPS. This is about my 10th receiver, starting back with the Garmin GPS12; the point being I'm familiar with the norms for GPS performance.
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Conclusion: Europe and US Maps / Great price
Review: So far I've used it in the US and France. The only issue I've had was that within Paris locking in to a satellite was sketchy, depending on what area of the city you are in. I had heard this from other reviews, so I pre-mapped certain areas by address before I arrived. That way, if I couldn't lock in real-time, I could at refer to the area map I had saved. Otherwise, have had excellent luck with mapping and re-routing in both US and Europe.
Good battery life, but would have been nice if Garmin had put an A/C charger in the kit. I am using a Griffin USB A/C charger which works fine. Despite the small drawbacks, for the price, it's a bargain.
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