Garmin nüvi 260 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Factory Refurbished)
Amazon.com Product Description
This is a refurbished GPS. Refurbished generally means that the unit has been returned to the manufacturer, who brings the navigator back to like new conditions. Some GPS may contain cosmetic blemishes.
Garmin’s nüvi 260 combines the thinprofile and attractive price point of other nüvi 200-series GPS with directions in real street names. As with all nüvis, you get Garmin reliability, the fast satellite lock of a high-sensitivity integrated receiver, a slim, pocket-sized navigator with a gorgeous display, detailed NAVTEQ maps that lets you search by name for more than 6 million points of interest like stores, restaurants or hospitals, and an easy, intuitive interface.
Which nüvi is Best for You?: Click here to see a quick, simple comparison of features for all Garmin nuvi GPS navigators.
The nüvi 260 comes preloaded with maps for U.S., Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, and features an ultra-slim design. |
Text-To-Speech
The text-to-speech feature of the nüvi 260 means that device automatically calls out street names (saying “turn right on Main Street” instead of “turn right in 200 feet.”). This feature lets drivers keep their eyes on the road while navigating through busy traffic and tricky roadways.
Smart, Powerful Design
The nüvi 260W is built with a high-sensitivity GPS receiver for extreme accuracy, as well as an SD card slot for storing your media and additional navigation tools, and a USB interface for loading data. All this is wrapped up in a package that measures 4.8 x 2.9 x 0.8 inches (W x H x D) and weighs just 6.6 ounces. The nüvi display is touchscreen-enabled, making it a cinch to control the device with your fingertips. A rechargeable lithium-ion battery provides up to five hours of battery life depending on use.
Garmin Lock
Garmin’s patent pending theft prevention system that disables the unit from performing any functions until the user types in a specific 4-digit PIN or takes the unit to a predetermined secure location
Navigate with Ease
The nüvi 260 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps, including a hefty POI 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 nüvi 260 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.
Important note about map updates: Due to our high volume of sales, almost every Garmin portable GPS navigator sold by Amazon.com will come with the most recent map version. If you ever do need a map update, you can purchase one from Amazon.com at our Garmin Store.
Easy To Use Interface
Garmin’s interface is a key to their success and one of the things that makes their devices such a pleasure to use. Simple controls and sub-screens make it easy to enter or search for destinations and get data about your trip.
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Beyond Navigation
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Navigation is just the beginning. nüvi 260 features 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. This device is compatible with optional content plug-ins available via SD card, such as the Garmin Travel Guides and Garmin SaversGuide provide detailed data for attractions and information on nearby merchants offering discounts, so you can customize nüvi for your travel needs. Garmin has also added the ability for customers to add custom points of interest (POI’s) from third parties such as school zones and safety cameras. |
 Browse your stored pictures with an easy-to-use JPEG viewer. |
 nüvi 260W accepts custom points of interest (POIs). View larger. |
Trick Your GPS Ride
 Custom vehicle icons let you ride in style, at least inside your GPS. See more icon option |
Like all nüvis, the 260 supports configurable vehicle icons. These fun, customized car-shaped icons come in a variety of colors to add a personal touch to your vehicle’s position on the map. |
What’s in the Box
nüvi 260, preloaded City Navigator NT for the continental U.S., Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, Alaska, and Canada, vehicle suction cup mount, vehicle power cable, dashboard disk, and set up and go guide.
Note: Like most USB Mass Storage Devices, the nüvi is not compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me.
Note: All nüvis come with detailed NAVTEQ maps containing more than 6 million pre-loaded point of interest locations.
| Screen Size inches (w x h) |
Included Maps | Text-to-Speech (Directions in Real Street Names) |
Traffic | Bluetooth | Media | FM Transmitter (audio through car stereo system) |
Multi- Point Routing |
Battery life (hours) |
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| Cont. U.S., Hawaii, and Puerto Rico |
AK and Canada |
Europe | |||||||||
| nüvi 200 | 2.8 x 2.1 |
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Photos |
up to 5 | |||||||
| nüvi 200w | 3.81 x 2.25 |
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Photos |
up to 5 | |||||||
| nüvi 250 | 2.8 x 2.1 |
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Photos | up to 5 | ||||||
| nüvi 250w | 3.81 x 2.25 |
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Photos | up to 5 | ||||||
| nüvi 260 | 2.8 x 2.1 |
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Photos | up to 5 | |||||
| nüvi 260w | 3.81 x 2.25 | |
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Photos | up to 5 | |||||
| nüvi 270 | 2.8 x 2.1 |
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Photos | up to 5 | |||||
| nüvi 350 | 2.8 x 2.1 |
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FM (with opt. receiver) |
Photos, MP3s |
up to 8 | |||||
| nüvi 360 | 2.8 x 2.1 |
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FM (with opt. receiver) |
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Photos, MP3s | up to 8 | |||
| nüvi 370 | 2.8 x 2.1 | |
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FM (receiver included) |
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Photos, MP3s | up to 8 | ||
| nüvi 650 | 3.81 x 2.25 |
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FM (with opt. receiver) |
Photos, MP3s | up to 7 | |||||
| nüvi 660 |
3.81 x 2.25 |
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FM (receiver included) |
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Photos, MP3s | |
up to 7 | ||
| nüvi 670 |
3.81 x 2.25 |
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FM (receiver included) |
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Photos, MP3s | |
up to 7 | |
| nüvi 680 | 3.81 x 2.25 |
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MSN (receiver included; 1-year free); FM (with opt. receiver) |
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Photos, MP3s | |
up to 7 | ||
| nüvi 750 |
3.81 x 2.25 |
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MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with opt. receiver) |
Photos, MP3s | |
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up to 5 | ||
| nüvi 760 | 3.81 x 2.25 |
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MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with opt. receiver) |
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Photos, MP3s | |
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up to 5 | |
| nüvi 770 | 3.81 x 2.25 |
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MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with opt. receiver) |
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Photos, MP3s | |
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up to 5 |
| nüvi 780 | 3.81 x 2.25 | |
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MSN-enhanced (receiver inc.; 3 months free) receiver); FM (with opt. receiver) |
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Photos, MP3s | |
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up to 5 | ||
| nüvi 850 | 3.81 x 2.25 | |
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MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with opt. receiver) |
Photos, MP3s | |
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up to 4 | |||
| nüvi 880 | 3.81 x 2.25 | |
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MSN-enhanced (receiver inc.; 3 months free); FM (with opt. receiver) |
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Photos, MP3s | |
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up to 4 | |
| nüvi 5000 | 4.5 x 2.7 | |
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MSN-enhanced (with optional receiver); FM (with opt. receiver) |
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external battery only |
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Product Description
nüvi 260** Remanufactured **Bring the ultra-cool nüvi 260 along for the ride, and arrive on time and in style. Similar to nüvi 250, nüvi 260 is attractively-………
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August 26th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good price good operationj
Wife has one similar so I operated it right out of the box. Use for business
August 26th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I received the nuvi 260 today. It was every bit as I expected. Not a scratch on it, protective film over the touch screen. I powered it up, connected it to my laptop and went through the registration process. In doing so, Garmin pushed the updated software to the unit. It also came with 2009 maps. I then took it out for a test drive and it performed flawlessly. It says refurbished product, but it looks and acts like new. No regrets here, I would buy a Garmin refurbished unit again. I saved lots of money vs a new product.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:18 am
This is my 4th GPS. First one I bought was a Tom Tom, I had it 1 week and took it back, it was bulky, the mount couldn’t hold the unit up (drooped when I hit a pothole) and it didn’t have Text to Speech. My Second is a Garmin NUVI 350 I had now for 3+ years, my 3rd is a model that comes built-in to the landrover. I love my two Garmins over the Landrover built-in. They cost thousands less and by far are superior in the human interface design.
I like the 260 over all the other models because it has the same superior “guts” of the higher NUVI models for tracking, but without all the nonsense like mp3, picture, bluetooth, FM traffic blah blah blah. I bought it for my daughter and she has all that other stuff satisfied by I-Pod, cell phone…etc., and doesn’t need the higher costing NUVIs and the unit itself to be burderned with features she isn’t going to use. I bought it for a paltry $150…WOW! I am too embarrased to tell you what I paid for my original NUVI 350 at Circuit City 2005. But in my defense, GPS car units were very pricey back then. Now the field is very competitive and prices are a 1/4 of what they used to be. Truly a must purchase at these new price lows.
Pros:
- Thin and portable , easily fits in pockets and purses.
- Intuitive menu design, you can start using right out of box without studying the manual. The wife will love that.
- Text to Speech voice guidance is the best. When you are needing to make your turn and there are 4 streets bunched close together, a voice prompt saying “turn right on Smith Road” is far superior to a beep prompt or a “turn right in 500ft” like the Tom Toms.
- The destination selections are smart. Categories are well populated. You don’t have to set the town to start searching for that nearby Arbys. It immediately scans from your position outwards. It does offer the option to select search in a particular town, somewhere along the way or at the destination itself which is a well used feature for us.
- Can run on battery or car charger.
- Cradle is excellent design. It has an easily engage/disengage design. The wiring snaps into the cradle so you just push release for NUVI and pop it into your pocket. It does have the option to plug directly in to NUVI if desired.
- USB connection and software is spartan but functional for updates and icon selectivity. Tom Tom’s software is far superior, but in the end, your GPS in on you car for guidance 99.98% of the time and not on you PC playing around.
- CONS
- To return to the navigation map, you have to back out X amount of times of menus that you enabled, very annoying. Garmin should have a hot button to return you instantly to your guidance map from anywhere in the program. My built-in has that and it is used a lot. Garmin’s design is more annoying than disfunctional.
- Battery will not last the 5 hours as advertised. I got 3 hours of use at best. So if you travel, don’t forget your charger cable.
- My NUVI takes a while to “warm-up” from a cold overnight sleep. The screen will say some distracting statement like “Searching for satellite” which is untrue. The receiver modules in GPS units need time to “cook”. Really not Garmin’s fault.
- Garmin sells units that play MP3s. Unless you tie-in the Garmin to your car stereo using the audio cable patch cable, you will be greatly dissappointed using the unit’s speaker for sound. It works fine for voice guidance but is completely inadequate for fidelity music listening. The same goes for bluetooth functionality.
- On start up, it displays the destination menu screen. I don’t always use the garmin, but I would like it to go to map display on startup. A minor issue, since you can just hit the one button at that menu to get to map. My built-in GPS defaults to map and I like that feature over a constant menu displaying. This is a personal preference, and not a design flaw by Garmin.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:22 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing little device
This gadget is easy to use, has up-to-date detailed maps, accurate GPS, and good software. Text-to-speech is invaluable; you don’t really need the screen (but the buttons on a…
August 27th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Received the Garmin 260 today. When I tried to register the unit with Garmin the unit had been already registered. I called Garmin and found out the unit had never been refurbished by the factory. The label on the box stated, “Newly Overhauled”. It appears that the unit is actually a “return” in a box labeled “newly overhauled”. I called Amazon to discuss the issue but all I got from Customer Service was send it back approach. Not much effort to make things right.
Great Product – Poor Customer Service.
August 27th, 2009 at 7:58 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Product
This far exceeded my expectations. I cannot think of anything negative to say about it. Easy to set up & easy to use.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another great product from Garmin
I bought this GPS after calling Garmin to determine what type of warranty this GPS came with and also if it was eligible for “latest maps upgrade”.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
4.0 out of 5 stars
Garmin nuvi 260
product works great, and I don’t need to worry about whatever broke before breaking again. invaluable tool for my job.
August 27th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Works great, good price
I needed a good GPS that worked, and I didn’t want to spend a lot of money. This was the perfect product. Garmin is known for quality GPSes and this one is no exception.
August 27th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
AWESOME!!!!!
I was pretty skeptical about purchasing a refurbished GPS, but when I received my product exactly that day after I ordered it from Amazon.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:46 am
2.0 out of 5 stars
Great little device – just very slow to find satelites
This is a great device and gets the job done. Only one (big) issue: when turning on teh device it can take up to 5 minutes before it locks onto satelites.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:45 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Works great lots of help on the road…
Pros
Easy to use
Great directions
Newer roads were on it
Cons
Some of the restaurants and businesses that were in Points of interest were long…
August 28th, 2009 at 11:03 am
4.0 out of 5 stars
Its been said before
I ordered this refurbished unit through amazon with standard shipping, it arrived as 1 day before it was promised in excellent shape. Amazon know hows to ship !