Garmin GPS Reviews

Who said the best way to say “I love you” was with flowers and chocolates? This is a new age; it’s time to give the gift that will not melt or wilt away within a week - nüvi is the gift to remember this Valentine’s Day! Now in “his and her” colors of sleek piano black and stunning white, the nüvi 205 adds even more class to GPS navigation. The nüvi 205 offers a built-in map of the Continental US as well as Puerto Rico and Hawaii with spoken turn-by-turn directions. So this year, on the day of love, black and white become the new pink and red. Give a gift that really shows you care and stop by the Garmin Chicago Store to pick up a black or white nüvi 205 with a matching carrying case for even more pizzazz. Happy Valentine’s Day from Garmin Chicago!

In case you haven’t heard, Garmin recently announced a break through product for experimental and light sport aircraft retrofits.  The GDU 370 and GDU 375 are non-certified panel mounted GPS’s and multi-function displays based off of the GPSMAP 696.  The two Garmin Display Units (GDU) can bring amazing utility to an aircraft for a comparable low cost.  I wish I had the time and space to tell you all about the capabilities of these new products but it would end up being a novel.  To give you a taste, these units give you all the advanced features of the GPSMAP 696, plus additional components can be added to transform the Multi-Function Display into a dedicated Primary Flight Display, or a PFD/ MFD on a single screen!  When PFD capabilities are added, the system will be known as the G3X.  With two or more of these displays, the G3X will even have reversionary capability.  The GDU 370 and GDU 375 have the heritage of the G1000 and G600 mixed with the ease of a GPSMAP 696.  That is a winning combination.

This week’s Ask Garmin question comes from Stanley, who like many of the blog readers, has a questionabout downloading additional mapping to a Garmin device. “We will be purchasing a Garmin in the very near future (the nüvi 750 looks promising), but I’m wondering if I may download European, Asian and or Australian maps to the nüvi 750 at a later date?” While it’s true that many of our devices, like the nüvi 775T, do come pre-loaded with transatlantic mapping, if your Garmin isn’t preloaded with mapping for North America and Europe, additional mapping can be purchased and added to the device. Garmin users can purchase detailed street maps, including millions of points of interest for many regions including Mexico, Australia, Middle East, Brazil, China and Russia just to name a few. A full list of available regions can be found here. And if you’re interested in additional mapping for on the trail or on the water, we have those too! So when you’re planning your next vacation, rest assured that Garmin’s got you covered.

We’re just a few days away from the world’s largest cell phone show, Mobile World Congress, and today Garmin-Asus unveiled the products that will be on display. The brand new nüvifone M20 and newly renamed nüvifone G60 will take center stage at the Garmin-Asus booth, Hall 7 #7C37.  If you’re wondering what sets the Garmin-Asus nüvifone series apart from other smartphones on today’s market, you’ll discover the difference as soon as you stop by our booth and test a M20 or G60.  The nüvifone series has LBS at its core and location information is added to everyday applications including email, SMS, photo sharing, social networking and more in order to enhance applications and share location information with others. Check out the new Garmin-Asus site for more info, or even better yet, come visit the Garmin-Asus booth at MWC!

Fore! Here comes Putter rolling down the cart path at a spirited 7 mph! If you haven’t already heard, Garmin recently announced the Approach G5. This touchscreen handheld gives golfers an advantage by showing key course features such as distance to the center of the green and distance to fairways and hazards. So we figured it was time to get to work on a Garmin Garage vehicle that reflects our excitement for the Approach. And, after reviewing the submissions to the Parking Lot, it looks like a lot of golf fans had requested a cart as well. Since we’re all about efficiency, we figured we could knock out two birdies with one stone. (? please forgive the pun) So we got to work. Of course, with this project, we couldn’t confine ourselves to the Garmin Garage. We had to do a little R&D at the nearby course. As it turns out, the Approach can only improve our game. By leaps. And bounds. Which is a nice way of saying that no one in the Garmin Garage will be joining the Pro Tour any time soon. But regardless of our game, Putter is now ready for you to download. Stop by the Garmin Garage and grab Putter today before your next golf outing. It’s better that we get Putter out of here sooner instead of later - before Scooter ends up crashing it into our CNC Machine.  And be sure to stop by the Garmin Garage every now and then to check out our newest free vehicle icons for your nüvi or zumo!