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Garmin nüvi 200W 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator Review from Floyd Goodrich. Beautiful GPS…, I wont bore you with what everybody else says about the 200W. It’s a great unit and very easy to learn. I also own a Mio C220 GPS and as both GPS systems are similar, I would like to compare them.

Ease of use… Nuvi by far the best.

Picking up and holding satellites… Mio by far the best.

Sound volume… Nuvi by far the best.

Screen brightness… Nuvi by far the best.

Routing… Both get you there but the Nuvi has better routing (Navtec) versus Mio (TeleAtlas).

Although the Nuvi has a bigger screen it lacks two features the Mio has and I miss them very much. The Mio has an arrow that always points to North, the Nuvi does not. The Mio shows the next turn on the screen, the Nuvi does not, and you have to touch the bottom right part of the Nuvi screen to see the next turn in advance. You do see the turn coming as you get to that turn on the Nuvi but it’s nice to know more in advance then the Nuvi lets you know. With such a large screen it’s hard to justify not having these two items on screen as I find them important. The POI’s are much harder to program in on the Mio but the Mio lets you categorize your POI’s, the Nuvi lumps them all into one category. Via points are basically unlimited in the Mio but not easily programed in, the Nuvi allows only one via point but is easily programed into the trip. The Mio offers a “QWERTY” key board to input information while the Nuvi has an “ABC” keyboard. This isn’t a big deal but why not a QWERTY keyboard as everybody uses on on their own computers, and finding letters is much faster. Both are great GPS systems, the Mio is “meat and potatoes” while the Nuvi is “pheasant under glass”. My advice is that although the Nuvi 200W is about $100 more than the Mio C220, its the one to get due to the sound volume and screen brightness, routing and ease of use.

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