 Manufacturer : Garmin Model : 010-00822-00 ASIN : B002LVUQYQ Price : 449.99$ See Special Offers   Amazon.com Product DescriptionGet real-time content on the go with nüvi 1690. From fuel prices to Googleâ„¢ Local Search, you'll be the first to know with Garmin nüLink!â„¢ services¹. The 1690 also includes preloaded maps, Lane Assist with junction view, hands-free calling and ecoRouteâ„¢ â€" making it one smart navigator. Travel Like a Local with Garmin nüLink! Services With Garmin nüLink! services, you receive accurate real-time information delivered wirelessly to your nüvi 1690. In the U.S., each nüvi 1690 comes with a free 2-year nüLink! subscription. After the 2-year period ends, subscriptions cost $60 a year â€" that's only $5 a month! With nüLink! services, you'll get Googleâ„¢ Local Search to find local POIs and traffic services that deliver alerts for delays and road construction then automatically guide you around them in the shortest time. Need fuel? Find up-to-date fuel prices near your location for regular, mid-grade, premium or diesel. Other convenient services included in the subscription: Ciao!â„¢ friend finder, weather, movie times, local events, Send to GPS, flight status, currency converter, White Pages and myGarminâ„¢.
No more guessing which lane you need to be in to make an upcoming turn. Lane Assist with junction view guides you to the correct lane for an approaching turn or exit, making unfamiliar intersections and exits easy to navigate. It realistically displays road signs and junctions on your route along with arrows that indicate the proper lane for navigation. Lane Assist with junction view is available in select metropolitan cities. Get Turn-by-turn Directions nüvi 1690's intuitive interface greets you with 2 simple options: "Where To?" and "View Map." Touch the color screen to easily look up addresses and services and get voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions that speak street names to your destination. It comes preloaded with detailed City Navigator® NT street maps, nearly 6 million POIs, 2-D or 3-D maps and speed limits for most major roads in the U.S. and Europe. Its digital elevation maps show you shaded contours at higher zoom levels, giving you a big picture of the surrounding terrain. And with HotFix® satellite prediction, nüvi calculates your position faster to get you there quicker. Make Hands-free Calls For hands-free calling, nüvi 1690 integrates Bluetooth® wireless technology with a built-in microphone and speaker. Just pair it with your compatible Bluetooth phone and talk hands-free through the 1690 while staying focused on the road. Simply dial numbers with nüvi's touchscreen keypad to make a call. To answer calls, just tap the screen and speak. Enjoy convenient 1-touch dialing for contacts and POIs. Select Fuel-efficient Routes nüvi 1690 saves you gas and money with ecoRoute â€" a green feature that calculates the most fuel-efficient route, tracks fuel usage and more. With ecoRoute, you have a “less fuel” option as a routing preference. When selected, nüvi will determine if a more fuel efficient route exists based upon road speed data and vehicle acceleration data for a given route. Route Planning nüvi 1690 includes advanced navigation features to take the worry out of traveling. With route planning you can save 10 routes, specify via points and preview simulated turns on the 1690's wide screen. In addition, nüvi 1690 automatically sorts multiple destinations to provide an efficient route for errands, deliveries or sales calls. It also displays speed limits for highways and Interstates. A trip log provides an electronic breadcrumb trail of up to 10,000 points, so you can see where you've been on the map. See More With nüvi 1690's widescreen display, you'll always get the big picture. View map detail, driving directions, photos and more in bright, brilliant color. Its sunlight-readable, 4.3" (10.92 cm) display is easy to read from any direction.
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What's in the Box nüvi 1690, Free 2-year data subscription to Garmin nüLink!™ services in the U.S., Preloaded City Navigator® NT North America (U.S. and Canada), Vehicle suction cup mount, Vehicle power cable, USB cable, and Quick start manual Compare all Garmin nüvis Click the button below to compare by series, user type, and features. Visit Garmin.com at https://www8.garmin.com/support/download.jsp to get the latest firmware updates for your nüvi to keep it current and performing at its best. ¹Two-year data subscription to nüLink! services included with purchase of nüvi 1690 while offer lasts. nüLink! services only available in select coverage areas. See the nüLink! coverage map for coverage details. nüLink! Traffic services are available in select areas. See the nüLink! traffic coverage map for included areas. What's in the Box nüvi 1490T, Preloaded City Navigator NT for North America, Lifetime traffic, FM traffic receiver with vehicle power cable, Vehicle suction cup mount, USB cable, Dashboard disc, Quick start manual  418 of 428 people found the following review helpful: Garmin's best nuvi model yet! This review is from: Garmin nuvi 1690 4.3-Inch Portable Bluetooth Navigator with Google Local Search & Real-Time Traffic Alerts (Electronics) EDIT - 12/15/09: Upon further use of the unit and it's nuLink traffic feature, I've run into numerous occasions where the traffic data simply wasn't too accurate. There were times that I'd be driving and the 1690 would indicate that I was in yellow level traffic, however, there really wasn't any traffic on the road at the time. There were other instances of where there'd be highway road construction going on with bumper to bumper traffic, but the nuvi didn't acknowlegde any traffic existed. With that said, overall there have been more times than not that the 1690 has nailed the traffic data and has been accurate, but it's been more like a 70-30 ratio which is just ok in my opinion. While I still believe the 1690 has the most accurate traffic compared to other nuvi models (explained in my review), it still leaves alot to be desired at times. I've come to the conclusion that the radio is simply the best source for the most up to the minute traffic info. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I purchase alot of navigation devices, so I was excited about the 1690 as there was much hype with this unit. The nuvi 1690 is Garmin's current top of the line model. It features the new Garmin nuLink service which includes things like traffic, weather, gas prices, movie times, etc. It's really good if you like that kind of stuff. It's basically a much better version of MSN Direct if you've ever used that service. I have a nuvi 1490t and 765t as well, so I'm going to make comparisons of the units. First thing I must say is that this unit acquires a satelite signal FAST (provided you used the unit within the past couple of days prior). I'm talking less than 10 seconds fast. I remember with my old nuvi 350 I used to have to sit in my car and wait a few minutes for the unit to get a signal, not with this 1690. The same can be said with the 1490t as far as fast satelite acquisition. With the 1690 however, I can actually get a signal inside of my house without standing directly by the window, which is the first device that can do that in my experiences. I would imagine it's good in a city with tall buildings like NYC with this kind of signal strength though I haven't tested there. As far as navigation, it navigates as well as any other Garmin device so no changes there. Directions are very accurate and re-route calculations if you miss a turn are quick. Text-to-speech is excellent as well and is very accurate and clear with pronunciation of street names. Something Garmin has done with the newer software in all of their new units is increased the size of the text in the green bar when you're navigating. This is great because the text in that green bar used to be too small to make out sometimes while you were driving. The size and thickness of the font of the arrival time (which can be changed to another category) and speed indicator (which can't be changed to another category) have also been increased. The speed indicator font now turns red whenever you go above the speed limit. I've noticed that the little speed limit signs are also now on practically all roads and not just highways. They are also pretty accurate and update as soon as I pass the real speed limit sign at times. Another thing to note with the 1690 is you now have an option to change the screen layout. You can have it where the map screen itself is smaller and a list of four categories (three choosable, can't change speed indicator) are to the right of the approximately 3.5" sized map screen (ie. Arrival Time, Direction, Distance to Destination, etc.) You can now also flick your finger on the screen like an iphone to navigate the menus instead of pressing the up/down arrow which is neat. Some have complained about the responsiveness of the keyboard, however, I feel it's the same as all the previous nuvi models I've owned. When I press a key it gets immediately entered though there have been a couple rare times it has taken a second to register. Nothing serious though, it's very useable. Also, the map screen redraw rate during a route is fast, so the car on the screen moves along nice and smooth like both the 765t and 1490t (and unlike the nuvi 350, 660, etc. which hops along instead of glides). The screen on the 1690 in terms of quality is exactly like the screen on the 765t. This is a bit of a disappointment for me because the screen on the 1490t is far superior to every other nuvi model. The 1490t's screen is of course larger (5" instead of 4.3" like on the 1690). The 1490t's screen is a much better screen because not only are colors more vivid, but viewing angles are MUCH better. I was hoping the 1690 would have the same screen, but in a 4.3" version. Not the case. I uploaded a couple of screen shots of a 1490t and 1690 side-by-side so you can see the comparison in screen size. The speaker in the 1690 is the same as the one in the 1490t which is a big plus because that speaker is LOUD. The 1690 and 1490t models have better speakers than any other previous nuvi model. If you have the volume turned up to 100% it's actually TOO loud. Highway driving with windows down would be the only probable scenario for 100%. You can hear some static however during turn by turn instructions with it turned up to the max 100%, but not a deal breaker and the voice can still be understood. So much credit to Garmin for including a loud speaker. The nuLink services are good if you're into that kind of stuff. Traffic is one of the big features included. Garmin includes a 2-year subscription to the service which is $5 a month thereafter I believe. Now WHY they still have the little popup ads present like in all their other "free lifetime traffic" models I have no idea. These ads for varoius companies that pay Garmin will pop up on your screen from time to time, like if your vehicle is stopped at a traffic light or you're searching for a POI (they won't actually pop up if your vehicle is moving on an active route, only when stopped). Problem is there's really no way to permanently get rid of the ads (which annoy me greatly, but some others don't seem to have an issue with them). Weather is nice as you can view the forecast in your current location or another location you can manually choose. The White Pages feature is great as well as you can look up a person by first and last name and drive directly to their address on file. It uses the data connection of the unit to get the info, so it'll be up to date since it's accessing the Internet. Google Local Search is an excellent nuLink feature. It basically makes your POI database 10 times larger and always up to date since it accesses the Internet for it's data. It's separate from the internal POI database, so you would have to choose one or the other to search for a POI. It would've been nice if both POI searches were integrated, but I can understand why they aren't. The Google Local Search relies on an Internet connection being present whereas the internal POI database is already stored into the unit's memory. You would constantly have duplicates of the same POI if they were integrated since they may be named slightly different since they come from completely different sources. The Gas Prices search is good as well as you can search whatever area you're in for the lowest gas prices. In my experiences it's been very accurate (gets the data from customers' credit card receipts) and will show you under the price it displays the last time it was updated... ie. Today, Yesterday, 3 Days ago, etc. It usually says Today or Yesterday the times I've used it. Traffic on this unit is GREAT. I say great because all the other units with free traffic are horrible because they're constantly feeding inaccurate traffic data to the unit via the integrated FM receiver. With the 1690 it uses at&t's data network for nuLink, so traffic data is MUCH more accurate and can be delivered to the unit much faster making it more up to the minute. I did a real-time side by side comparison of the 1690's traffic data and the 1490t's free traffic. Think they'd be identical because they both use Navteq traffic? Think again. I searched for all traffic incidents nearby my current location. I'm not exhaggerating when I say the 1690 brought up double the amount of incidents that the 1490t brought up. Just to test it out I drove to the closest traffic incident nearby and sure enough it was there. The 1490t didn't even acknowledge it existed. Also, there were times where they'd both have the same traffic incident, but different data (ie. 3 min delay as opposed to 10 min delay). I drove to a common incident as well to see which one was more accurate. Again, the 1690 was more accurate. I assume it's because the 1490t still had older data that hadn't yet been updated. That gives you an idea of how much better traffic on the 1690 is compared to all other Garmin models. AT&T's EDGE data network seems to be everywhere as well, so chances are if your at&t cell phone has reception, so will the internal receiver of the 1690. I have MSN Direct on my 765t which I believe works good... when it wants to work. Problem is... it never works. It takes forever to download data and reception is horrible in alot of places with MSN Direct. Not at all the case with the 1690 and at&t's network. In addition to having great coverage, it downloads data fast which is great. Once the device is powered on (and has cellular network reception), you'll have all the updated traffic info in no more than a few minutes. I really like the whole "connected" idea when it comes to traffic. The border around the unit is about the same width as the 1490t, despite being a smaller unit. It's also thicker than the 1490t. I suppose that's because they had to fit the cellular radio module with sim card inside the unit. The black border is a piano black finish and... This review is from: Garmin nuvi 1690 4.3-Inch Portable Bluetooth Navigator with Google Local Search & Real-Time Traffic Alerts (Electronics) I wrote a very heated review a few weeks ago... after playing around with the GPS for a full 24 hours. After a lot of hemming and hawing, I decided to keep the GPS because it served its purpose: provide directions for me while I drove around in LA/OC. I'm sure there's probably a better one out there but I paid $360 for this unit from CarToys. The following review is my original one including more opinions on this unit: I'm officially a GPS newbie. I never owned a unit before so fellow newbies - this is for you too. So far, I've had this unit for up to 3 weeks now and here are some pros & cons. Also, this is a matter of my opinion, if you have any tips - PLEASE let me know. PROS: 1) The GPS made my drive very convenient... it gave accurate information even though their traffic data wasn't precise. In one instance they wanted us to hop off the 5 freeway, drive down a regular street, and do it again. 2) Garmin's NuLink service is very helpful as there were several occasions where I needed to find some information and I was able to look through Google Local for it. 3) There are a lot of handy features. I like their points of interest. I never knew there were so many events in the area. It's handy when you want to see an art exhibit (doesn't list all), comedy show, or something. Looking for food has never been so easy for me. I don't have to drive around in circles to look for it. 4) The bluetooth is very handy. I found it very easy to use. Too bad I can't have an "address book" on there. Favorites seem to be sufficient, however when I look under call history -- the number that I entered as a favorite registers as UNKNOWN CALLER. This might be problematic because... what if you don't want to pick up? :) CONS: 1) Traffic data stopped working and it's slightly unreliable. The first week it worked for me. However, for some UNKNOWN reason, it stopped working when I tried to look up traffic data a week after I got the unit. I was getting incomplete data. Some freeways showed up as black (which the route used to show up green for good traffic) and it'll show yellow and red. However, these colors didn't align to the freeway (when it used to). 2) The Google search helped a lot BUT it's slightly slow and the response isn't perfect. I live in Orange County and drove to Los Angeles w/ the device so it should be able to retrieve data well enough. However, I kept running to the "server is busy" messages. 3) THIS DEVICE RESTARTS AT VERY RANDOM TIMES (even though it's fully charged or plugged into the car). I used this device all day and it restarted on me while I was driving, using it in pedestrian mode, and just entering data. I noticed that it happens quite a bit when it can't connect to the satellites EVEN THOUGH I'm in an open area. That led to manually restarting the device several times. If I clicked too fast, it restarts too! This is getting slightly irritating. Also, in a place like LA, you can't have this thing randomly restart! 4) There have been a few times when the device registered incorrect dates. Earlier, I was looking for comedy events that were playing TODAY. However, when I click on TODAY, it gave me the times/events for TOMORROW'S DATE versus TODAY. When I click on TOMORROW'S date, I get the next day's events. What happened to TODAY and not tomorrow? That is buggy. 5) Marking your car's parking spot is slightly unreliable. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Maybe this is due to user error but I got it to work the first time... however, afterwards, it didn't work. 6) ADVERTISEMENTS ARE ANNOYING - It obstructs your route. So far, the only way I can get around this is by clicking on it. Then it brings to a list of where all the stores are in the area, and I have to click back. This is a problem because it's a distraction that's frustrating and problematic when you're trying to pay attention to the road. In California, you can't mount your GPS on the center of the windshield. As a test of the law, I had it mounted on far right side of the passenger's side and realized how hard it is to get out of the screen. I had to pull over, pull it off, and place it on the passenger seat just to have it next to me so I can click on the ads to make them go away. 7) The battery life is very short. It states that it lasts for 4 hours but it seems to last only a couple hours for me while I'm using it in pedestrian mode. ---------- Depending on things go with this device, I might even consider returning it. Luckily Car Toys has a wonderful return policy on Garmin products. I may call Garmin's customer support to find how I can get around these problems. If not... I'm going to put it back in the box and do a return! 149 of 168 people found the following review helpful: No thank you to the advertisements on the unit This review is from: Garmin nuvi 1690 4.3-Inch Portable Bluetooth Navigator with Google Local Search & Real-Time Traffic Alerts (Electronics) This is just a typical Garmin unit, I like Garmin better than most of the other companies primarily for how they handle points of interest. I was disappointed the Google option is a separate search not integrated into the primary search but the Google search was useful and I could have seen using this as the default POI search tool, if I was going to keep the unit. Tom Tom did this same which I don't get, it would have made more sense to combine the integrated items with the Google search, but I an not a programmer and don't know the challenges with accomplishing this. The reason I really do not like this item and I am returning it, is because of the pop ups for advertisements. This item was over $400 which is a premium to pay for a GPS, I don't mind paying for a yearly service agreement and becuase this is only a two year subscription that comes with the unit I am paying for it. I just don't expect to get pop ups for local businesses , not only is it unaceptable but it is a distraction and it is unsafe. For example: I chose the option to show the closest hospitals, now you would assume if I am looking for a hospital it would be an urgent issue. I got a little blue pop up banner Target - Check out this week's deal on-the-go. This same pop up showed up on a few other occasions while I had the regular navigation map up as well. This is the reason I am giving it such a low rating and returning it.  Does the job Easy to use, only problem I can see so far is that I lose satellite connection on occasion. I would recommend this product as it gets me to where I need to go... by anthony difiore my 3rd one! and I may get another This Garmin is unique. It has on line ability with google and is able to check airport flights. That is a big plus for my wifes limo company. by D. Knoll Garmin Nuvi 1690 - The Best I ever had! I love this GPS, and I think it is a much better product than the Tom Tom, it's features are excellent! by J Not bad, but has minor problem The GPS works well most of time. However, sometimes it responses slowly, when I don't follow the route it suggests. I have to drive a little bit long way then it re-calculates. by mattlee online navigation I have been searching for a good navigation and i decided to buy nevi 1690.This is a great navigation it is really fast. by ksd Garmin 1690 GPS The GPS works better than I expected. The price was great and the unit had no problems. I would have liked better instructions on how to operate the system. by Carl Tufts Isn't tech Awesome? The product was shipped from Vema Electronics, but as I'm writing this, new orders are being shipped by a different company. by Kirk T. Morger Thank you Amazon Original item did not work (Bluetooth) but thanks to Amazon's return policy, item was exchanged and new one performs as advertized. by second garmin tripps This Is A Great Gadget,I Have Not Used The Voice Recognition Yet, I Received It Before Date, And It's As Described, It Replaces One That Was Stolen But This One Is Far... by tripps All I desired I bought this item because I started doing a lot of traveling to states i had never visited before. The device was easily mounted to the dash board or glass. by Carrie Ann Todd |
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Garmin nuvi 1690 4.3-Inch Portable Bluetooth Navigator with Google Local Search & Real-Time Traffic Alerts
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