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GPS With European Maps
The Garmin GPS was a godsend on our trip to Europe. If you have ever driven into cities or small towns in Europe you will know how difficult it is to navigate, while trying to read foreign street signs, dodging motor scooters and bicylists, finding the right exit out of a around-about all the while being pushed along by the very aggressive drivers behind you. But with the GPS most of that stress goes away as you know when and where to turn and you drive through towns like a native. I was very...
[Garmin 0100062130 Portable In-Vehicle GPS System review can be read at Amazon.com]
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08/23/2007
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Nuvi 270 used in Italy
I bought the Nuvi 270 for my 24 day trip to Italy. The unit is very user friendly for menus and visibilty. We used our Garmin in coordination with a TomTom 910 and our unit out mapped the TomTom every time. The mapping is great and points of interest are good, but rememeber that Italian locations are not always translated the same IE; "leaning tower of Pisa" is actually "tower pendentta. The other thing you never want to do is hit "shortest route" when in Italy!!! You will end up driving curvy m...
[Garmin 0100062130 Portable In-Vehicle GPS System review can be read at Amazon.com]
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10/19/2007
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Great experience with Garmin 270 in Europe
I purchased the Garmin 270 because it included European and US GPS. When the unit arrived, I took it outside in the front yard of my house in Seattle and powered it up. It took a few minutes to acquire the sattelite, and then picked up my location immediately. I purchased the gravity mount device (didn't want the sticky mess), which worked very well. I punched in a few local locations and listened to the directions to guide me in, which worked fine. When I got to Paris, I attempted to use i...
[Garmin 0100062130 Portable In-Vehicle GPS System review by Brian A. Mahoney can be read at Amazon.com]
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Brian A. Mahoney
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09/01/2007
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Seattle, WA USA
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No More Maps of Europe for Me! Nuvi 270 Gets 5 Stars!
I recently went to Scotland, Ireland and England for 2 weeks. Normally, I would have gone through the trouble of printing maps off of Google however, I decided to purchase a 270 instead. Amazingly Amazon was the best deal out there. I orderered the GPS, a charging cable and a bean bag type mounting kit. If you are planning on using this in rental cars, the garmin bean bag mount is the way to go. It packs flat when you remove the stand and never slid from its spot on my dash!
So,...
[Garmin 0100062130 Portable In-Vehicle GPS System review can be read at Amazon.com]
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11/01/2007
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Garmin Nuvi 270
The Nuvi270 is a small bit of a disappointment. In a recent trip to Europe, the only reason I pruchased the 270, it was able to find all addresses but did not know about more recent changes to the street map. In Prague, it kept insisting on bringing me to the same left turn that was no longer allowed since an ad hoc square was put in that place for the last 6 months. It could not find another way of getting me to my hotel. I was able to get to within 1 block of my destination and had to park...
[Garmin 0100062130 Portable In-Vehicle GPS System review can be read at Amazon.com]
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01/20/2008
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(21 of 21) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Garmin Nuvi 270
A fantastic unit - the size of a deck of cards, with both North America and Europe loaded and ready to go. You'll wonder how they got all the info into one small package! And it's fast, responding and answering questions quickly. Best of all it's got a setting for "car" or "walking" so you can use it for city walking tours as we did on vacation. The beanbag car mount lets us move it from car to car (even a rental car) and then slip it into your shirt pocket when checking out a new city. Rea...
[Garmin 0100062130 Portable In-Vehicle GPS System review can be read at Amazon.com]
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06/26/2007
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Useful and cheap with European and US maps
The Garmin Nuvi 270 is useful, cheap, compact, and has a
simple interface. But, some simple additions to the firmware
would make it more useful to the majority of its users. I
have not compared it to similar units or other consumer
electronics with similar displays and batteries etc., but it
is a great improvement in these respects on some devices I
know from three to seven years ago.
It seems like this is the best or only choice for a cheap,
small, ...
[Garmin 0100062130 Portable In-Vehicle GPS System review can be read at Amazon.com]
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11/30/2008
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(15 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Amazing
I just returned from Europe. The Nuvi 270 was amazing. Not only did it have all the major highways but the most insignificant of roads (some a little too small of our vehicle). I highly recommend this product to anyone looking for a GPS that will be traveling to Europe.
[Garmin 0100062130 Portable In-Vehicle GPS System review by A. Morelli can be read at Amazon.com]
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A. Morelli
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07/16/2007
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(15 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Don't Leave Home Without it!
With a two week drive adventure across Italy and with somewhat limited language skills, we realized we needed help. The Garmin Nuvi 270 saved my trip, my sanity, and my marriage. Some of our destinations were well off the tourist maps and the Nuvi 270 performed almost flawlessly. Almost, since somewhere south of Ravenna, it put us on a dirt road that was just the width of our car and 30' above the surrounding farm land! We drove 8KM praying we didn't meet another car coming in the other directio...
[Garmin 0100062130 Portable In-Vehicle GPS System review can be read at Amazon.com]
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10/09/2007
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garmin 270, used in New York State
We used the system for the first time this weekend and had two different experiences--one in which we were completely satisfied, and one where we were a bit amused, but disappointed. The latter involved veering off the course proscribed by the GPS, because we actually knew a shorter, easier route for the initial part of the journey. After we made our detour, and were back on the recommended route, the GPS seemed a bit undone--it recommended getting off at every single exit on the Thruway!!! <...
[Garmin 0100062130 Portable In-Vehicle GPS System review by traveler can be read at Amazon.com]
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traveler
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07/15/2007
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Lynbrook, NY USA
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(13 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful
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