- Voice prompts
- Speaks street names
- 3D map view
- Auto sort multiple destinations
- Auto re-route
- Choice of route setup
- Route avoidance
- Custom POIs
- Hands-free calling with Bluetooth
- FM traffic compatible
- MSN Direct for U.S. compatible
- MP3 player
- Audio book player
- Picture viewers
- Configurable vehicle icons
- World travel clock, currency & measurement converter, calculator
- Touchscreen
- FM transmitter
- Headphone jack/audio line-out
- Garmin Lock (anti-theft feature)
Package includes:
- nüvi 880
- Preloaded City Navigator North America NT®
- Vehicle suction cup mount
- Vehicle power cable
- Dashboard disc
- USB cable
- Speech recognition remote
- Quick start manual
- Note: Packaging and quick start manual offer English and French languages
Saturday, October 18, 2008
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By: red
Oh Yeah!! This is the one. We bought it for our RV because we live on the road. We can find RV sites better with this unit instead of me relying on my wife to read the road atlas. Now my wife can relax in the back while I locate everthing on my own. Need a perscription filled?, just type, or say, "Walgreens" or "CVS" and we get directions. WE LOVE IT!!
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
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By: Ed
Get this. My Volvo salesman told me not to buy there built in unit and to get the garmin 880 instead. He uses it in his dealer car and loves it. This unit is amazing! It does everything but drive the car!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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By: clarke
The Garmin Nuvi 880 is an awesome GPS unit. I've tried many in the past, and nothing comes close to the Garmin 880. Voice recognition works flawlessly. I'm definitely going to keep the MSN Direct subscription after the free 3 month grace period. Never need to touch the screen while driving. Hands-free everything! Directions, iPhone dialing with bluetooth, traffic, weather, restaurants, movie theaters and much more. The price tag puts it at the top of the GPS $$ ladder, but it's worth every penny.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
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By: cutter
UPDATE: I just wanted to make you aware of some other plus's about the Garmin Nuvi 880. Last night a friend called me to tell me he bought a new TomTom 930 with voice recognition and wanted to see how it matched up against my 880. I thought I would make it interesting so I took my wife's Nuvi 750 and one of my older Magellan hand held GPS units (Platnum) and stuck them all to the windshield of my work truck. I have to tell you my 880 completley obliterated all the other units. The TomTom 930 did a nice job with most tasks but fell way short on Voice Recognition tasks compared to the 880. The 930 also has a lot more mapping problems like not giving both names of side streets as we approached and a lot of wrong street names in general. The one thing that really bothered me was the TomTom couldn't find my friends home, where the other 3 gps units couls find my home. Of course the Nuvi 880 is the most expensive GPS in the bunch, but if you shop you can get a great deal.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
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By: cutter
I have owned about 15 differant GPS units in the last 20 years or so and this Garmin Nuvi 880 is by far the best one yet. Like I said before in my cons, all GPS makers always have problems with mapping. The differance is Garmin has a way to fix there mapping problems. On Garmin.com there is a page where you can explain the problems and submit them to Garmin and they will send there mapping people to investigate and they say they will fix the problems,....we will see. Besides some minor mapping problems this GPS is AWESOME!!!!. The menu is very easy to get around on and the speech recognition is incredible. You do have to learn the GPS's words and phrases that it likes to hear and when you learn it's language you reap the benefits. No more taking your hands off the steering wheel to adjust the GPS. You can adjust things like volume, to detour's and almost everything in between. The Garmin security feature is pretty cool also, just remember to remember your unlockling code. If you activate the security, in lets say your driveway at home then when you turn on your Garmin GPS you don't have to punch in your unlocking code. It does it automatically for you.
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
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By: neal
I have been using the 880 for about a month now and overall I love it. However the one thing that doesn't work well is the bluetooth-enabled mike/speakerphone for my cell phone. It pairs easily (once you do it properly - it wasn't intuitive but customer service was very helpful). Unfortunately the speaker in the unit is very poor so it's a bit hard to hear/understand those you're talking to. But even worse is that those you're talking to have a hard time hearing/understanding, to the point that I can't use it unless sitting with the car turned off. And even then it's not great. Anyone else have this problem, and if so, any ideas how to get around it? This is a great feature, and one that helped make my decision to buy this unit. I'll be very disappointed if it turns out that I can't effectively use it.
Friday, August 15, 2008
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By: sal
Well worth the extra money. Truly a marvel. My wife and I are in our 70's. We don't have time to get lost during our weekend drives in the country. While exploring we can find restaurants, motels, gas, Walgreens...anything! We needed to get our son to set it up but the voice response helps with ease of use. We don't leave home without it.
