Product Description

Garmin Nuvi 250 Satellite Navigation

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Garmin
• Model: 010-00621-02
• Released on: 2007-04-09
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x 4.00" w x 8.00" l, .75 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

Garmin nüvi 250

Simple navigation at an affordable price — that's Garmin’s nüvi 250. This entry-level Personal Travel Assistant comes with preloaded maps for Europe. Like all nüvi 200-series members, the 250 features an easy-to-use colorful touch screen and ultra-slim design — perfect for everyday navigation.

Navigate With Ease

The Garmin nüvi 250 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, the Garmin nüvi 250 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 250 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 provide detailed data for attractions, so you can customize nüvi for your travel needs.
Garmin nüvi 250: Don’t just get there. Arrive ™

What's in the Box:

• Garmin nüvi 250
• Preloaded City Navigator® NT for Europe (full coverage)
• Vehicle suction cup mount
• Vehicle power cable
• Dashboard disk
• Set up and go guide

Box Contents

Customer Reviews

...fabulous product, but in case you didn't read the (to be fair... not that small!) small print....
this satnav comes with a suction thingy... I didn't read the "what's in the box" properly and was swayed by "what other people bought with this".... so now I have two suction thingys, but completely my own fault for not reading the very clear notes by Amazon... but I guess I'm not the only one if it's still showing a separate suction thingy as being bought together with this model!

brilliant piece of kit
I haven't used a tomtom but I tested the garmin out on a daytrip to legoland and was really impressed. Very quick to set up and plan route. Would definatly recommend to a friend.

Good Value
The Garmin 250 standard is a good package and value for money. I paid under £100 from Amazon. It is much more compact than a Tom Tom I have used and easier to use. Straightforward to use either during walking mode or in the car. It doesn't have all the gizmo's of higher priced sat nav's but still does the basic job. It takes a couple of minutes to find the satellites but during that time you can set up your travel data.
The instruction manual is OK but I did my usual thing and played around with it until I understood it then read the manual and I didn't do much wrong so there is hope for all us 'old un's'.
My only gripe is it's idea of some routes is a little strange. If I go to work using my own route it is 19 miles but with the sat nav it is different route and 22 miles. Fo some reason it takes me home a different route again at 23.5 miles. On longer journey's it seems to work out the route just fine.
I would recommend it to anyone who wants a basic sat nav that is simple to use. If you want an al singing and all dancing one then you are going to have to spend a lot more money for little extra.