But it’s not the perfect answer, just a tool. You have to be aware of what it’s telling you, and make decisions based on your knowledge and common sense.

Pros:
–Large, bright screen (which can switch to a dark backlight when it gets dark out).
–Text-to-speech directions pretty clear (occasional weird pronunciation.)
–Remembers lots of places you’ve been, easy to save places as favorites.

Cons:
–Need to understand what the Nuvi believes is fastest versus shortest, and when you may want to turn off highways as part of the navigation.
–Sometimes the nuvi does NOT tell you to bear right or left as a road forks, and if you’re not looking at the screen, you won’t realize it (until the GPS-voice-with-an-attitude tells you that it’s recalculating).
–The precise locations of things is more of a rarity than you may think. As an example, the nuvi is locating my “home” on the street that runs 150 feet behind my house. If it’s accurate to within 200 or 300 feet, that’s a football field away from where you actually are.
–It sometimes doesn’t announce turns in advance (doesn’t happen often, but does happen).
–Do yourself a favor and buy (separately) the friction mount (sandbag-style) rather than bothering with the suction cup mount that’s included. You’ll love it, it’s easy to move (either from car to car, or to put under you seat so that thieves don’t see it and break in). Absolutely should be the standard mount.

Additional comments:
The 650 doesn’t include a few features, such as bluetooth, that are standard in the 660 and above. If you use audio books or play music through the MP3 player, bluetooth would enable you to play through your car stereo. If you don’t care about that, the 650 is a better deal.

No printed manual is included — just a Quick Start pamphlet. Do yourself a favor and go to the garmin site and download the manual right away. It’ll answer a ton of questions for you and clear up things that are not obvious.