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nuvi Portable GPS Navigator Travel Assistant - New! Introducing the Garmin Nuvi GPS - The ultimate travel companion. The Garmin Nuvi is a versatile travel assistant that's approximately the size of a deck of playing cards. The nuvi is a portable GPS navigator, traveler's reference, and digital entertainment system, all in one. Combined with detailed maps, the Garmin nuvi provides automatic routing, turn-by-turn voice directions, and finger-touchscreen control - making it easy to find your way anywhere. Travel Kit - The Garmin nuvi also offers a travel kit of useful travel tools to help keep any journey fun: MP3 player, audio book player from Audible.com, JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converter, measurement converter, and calculator. In addition, optional software packages such as the Language Guide and Travel Guide sold separately on SD Data cards can be added for language and content support. Travelers can use the nuvi to navigate to an address or search points of interest POIs - places like hotels, restaurants, shopping, and tourist attractions. The Garmin nuvi automatically calculates the fastest route and provides voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions along the way. Thanks to the nuvi's text-to-speech functionality, the unit audibly announces the name of upcoming streets - letting drivers keep their eyes on the road while navigating through busy traffic and tricky roadways. If users stray off course, the nuvi automatically calculates the quickest way to get back on track. Garmin nuvi North American versions include pre-loaded City Navigator NT maps of the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The nuvi unique text-to-speech feature calls out turns by street name. In addition, this text-to-speech interface, gives users the spoken pronunciation of each entry in the word bank - along with gender and part-of-speech information. The nuvi is compatible with the GTM 10 FM TMC traffic receiver, which allows users to avoid traffic tie-ups by simply pushing a button that will calculate a new route. The nuvi also comes with an A/C charger and approximately MBs of internal memory for storage of supplemental maps, MP3s, and audio books available from Audible.com. Optional Software Language Guide software - Users can access an optional Garmin Language Guide, with data provided by Oxford University Press. This software suite contains a multilingual word bank, phrase bank, and five bilingual dictionaries. The multilingual word bank and phrase bank supports nine languages and dialects, including American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, European Spanish, and Latin American Spanish. The Language Guide lets travelers look up and translate more than 17,000 words or 20,000 phrases per language. Through the unit's text-to-speech interface offered only on the Garmin nuvi , users can get a spoken pronunciation of each entry in t. FREE Shipping Over $100, No Sales Tax