Product Description

Garmin Nuvi 270 Satellite Navigation

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53507 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Garmin
• Model: Nuvi 270
• Released on: 2007-04-09
• Platform: Not Machine Specific
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.80" h x .80" w x 3.80" l, .32 pounds
• Display size: 3.5

Manufacturer's Description

Garmin nüvi 270

Navigate both North America and Europe without loading more maps with the affordable Garmin nüvi 270. This entry-level Personal Travel Assistant makes traveling so simple. Like all nüvi 200-series members, the 270 features an easy-to-use colorful touch screen and ultra-slim design — perfect for everyday navigation.

Navigate With Ease

The Garmin nüvi 270 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator® NT street maps for both North America and Europe, 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, the Garmin 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. The Garmin nüvi 270 includes 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 travel guides and a savings program provide detailed data for attractions and information on nearby merchants offering discounts, so you can customize nüvi for your travel needs.

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
• Set up and go guide

Garmin nüvi 270: Don’t just get there. Arrive ™

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Customer Reviews

Sat Nav Must Have
After spending many hours researching and reading various reviews I decided to buy the Garmin Nuvi 270 and I am so glad I did.
I've recently been to Florida and what a god send, even though the roads are well signed this little beauty would navigate to the required destination with pin point accuracy and if you did miss your turning or take the wrong road the unit recalculates your route with minimum fuss, it is preloaded with loads of points of interests such as attractions,shopping malls,atm's,restaurants,airports the lists goes on.
The only negative I can think of which doesn't warrant dropping this unit to 4 stars is, when charging the unit there is no meter to show whether it is fully charged.
As an entry level SatNav I can honestly say you wont buy better for the money, at present on Amazon.co.uk £179.99

Garmin Nuvi 270 Portable Sat Nav
Throw away your Street Atlas - Welcome to hassle free route finding. You should never get lost again in some unfamiliar town. A great little machine from one of the top two manufacturers. In my opinion comparable wth the U.K. top selling TOM TOM products that I have used previously. Does take a little while to plot the initial route and route re-calculations can sometimes take a while longer than expected. Bright sunshine can occasionally make the screen glare slightly but the voice commands are generally sufficient to overcome this minor problem. Haven't tried it in Europe yet - don't suppose I ever will use the USA or Canada options. Overall an excellent device that you can buy with confidence. Shame they don't supply a carry case as standard - does seem somewhat mean as some manufacturers such as LG do. I use a padded digital camera case to carry mine - seems ideal.

Excellent value
I had wanted a SatNav with European maps preloaded for some time and was waiting for prices to fal to acceptable levels. Then I saw the 270 advertised with USA mapping preloaded as well..the only problem was the price. Amazon.co uk launched an offer and I took the plunge.
The Nuvi 270 sems a remarkable piece of kit in that it has all the maps preloaded (I did not want to bother having to down-load maps every time I went to Europe or the USA).
The good news is it works, I have used it in UK and Florida.It takes a few minutes to relocate itself when changing countries and to find the relevant satellites.
The voice instructions are clear and precise. The mapping is sometimes out of date (told us to look for a roundabout on the A38 which has since been removed). Have to be careful with keep right or left commands when the are no obvious alternatives.
The biggest problem we found was when trying to locate a shop, we had the post code but no street number so I had to guess one...the unit took us to the wrong end of a long street and we only found the shop by chance but this is the fault of the post code system and the failure of the shop to use its full address rather than the 270.
I would give it 5 stars if it had not cost us 30 minutes driving down narrow Devon roads towing a caravan because I mis-understood a command (I swear it was a poor instruction though the wife may say something different).
In my view it is not a complete substitute for a map reader but it is a very handy confirmation that you are heading the right way.