Garmin nüvi 1690 4.3-Inch Portable Bluetooth Navigator with nüLink! Services
- Widescreen ultra-slim GPS design with 4.3-inch WQVGA touchscreen display and EDGE network connectivity
- Pre-loaded with City Navigtor NT maps for North America, including more than 6 million name-searchable points of interest
- Bluetooth wireless technology enables hands-free calling with a compatible phone; included traffic receiver provides North America traffic information
- Pedestrian navigation capability enabled through optional CityXplorer maps
- Enjoy 2 years of free access to Garmin’s nüLink! Services like weather forecasts, flight status, white pages, and more
Amazon.com Product Description
The Garmin 1690 GPS navigator–with Bluetooth and included Traffic Receiver–features an enhanced user interface, ecoRoute, public transit mode, and text-to-speech. Plus, pedestrian navigation capability is enabled through optional CityXplorer maps, which are available for select tourist destinations in North America and Europe and can be downloaded easily directly to the nüvi. The device’s enhanced user interface features improved graphics and a slide control for menu operation, while ecoRoute suggests fuel-efficient routes to save drivers money and fuel. Also, Garmin’s public transit mode allows you to navigate using buses, tramway, metro, and suburban rail systems. Pre-loaded with City Navigator North America NT. An ultra-thin GPS navigator with great Garmin features like CityXplorer and ecoRoute. Click here for an interactive demo Bluetooth Wireless Technology
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Garmin nüvi 1690 4.3-Inch Portable Bluetooth Navigator with nüLink! Services
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5 comments
exnihilo on December 22, 2009 at 1:48 pm
With great anticpation I received my GPS for my fall vacation. Well, GPS is bricked. Will not power up.
Charles R. Bruyere on December 22, 2009 at 1:58 pm
This GPS is what anyone would need. I love blue tooth and everything the GPS performs. Garvin Nuvi1690 is better than any GPS I have ever had and I have had Magellan, Nextar, Tom Tom, and Navigon.
Bill Berry on December 22, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I almost didn’t buy this because of all the negative reviews. But, I am glad I did anyway!
I have used a Garmin Streetpilot C330 for a couple of years and felt like it was time to update. The 1690 was the newest one out, so I went for it. Good decision!
Love the bluetooth with phone. I was able to mount it in my car in the dash area so it almost is the same as factory installed. The clarity of the speaker on bluetooth is great. The volume is great.
The ads are no big deal. Very small, and only when you are sitting still. Actually, I saw one for Shell Gas, and needed gas, so I clicked on it, and it guided me to the nearest Shell Gas Station.
Google search is cool. Traffic means nothing to me, because I am in a small city that is not included in the database. No problem.
Free update to the 2010 maps was a breeze.
Bottom line. Get it. You won’t regret it!
Simon Mashkevich on December 22, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Everything perfect, only thing, traffic delivered by nuLink difficult to understand its prediction principal to real traffic at the moment, and sometimes it’s looking redundant.
Y. Goldberg on December 22, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I tried garmin vs tomtom 740 live side by side around houston area and I have one winner: Tomtom live 740!!!
The garmin always take you through weird routes and never give you the best route as the tomtom with the IQ routs technology…
Also as I’m driving on “1960″ over and over again, It dosnt matter what time the garmin say there is traffic and takes me around the road which extending my route by 5 min!!!
But the worst fact is that the road is completely clear.
Another time I drove from S houston to N houston at pick time and the garmin took thorough a nightmare route compare to a dream route which took me the tomtom the day before!
25 min shorter on the tomtom at pick time!!!
So I think the routing on the tomtom are way better but some good point for the garmin as the “extra” services really good especially the google local feature which is way more friendly then the tomtom’s.
Mounting is better on the tomtom.
The ability to choose if you want hov/toll roads on the tomtom is great as well.
Again if the routing ability important for you get the tomtom, but if the visuality more take the garmin, but eventually the tomtom are the best by the usability!!!