Garmin nüvi 350 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator by Garmin

Garmin nüvi 350 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

Features

Compact 700 MB GPS navigator with bundled MP3/audiobook player, photo viewer, and world travel clock

Small enough to fit in a pocket or purse; mounts on vehicle windshield with included suction cup

Preloaded with City Navigator NT V.5 with maps of U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico

Turn-by-turn directions, automatic routing, and 320 x 240 color touchscreen display

Secure Digital SD memory card slot; measures 3.87 x 2.91 x 0.87 inches W x H x D; 1-year warranty

Reader Reviews
After trying both Garmin's i3 and c340 GPS units, this is the one I'm keeping. Simply wonderful. It has all the characteristics that I was looking for: 1) VERY compact -- easily able to fit in a breast pocket 2) Text-to-Speech -- announces proper street names, not just "turn left in 500 feet"; radically reduces how much you need to look at the screen to figure out the real instructions; wouldn't own a GPS unit wihtout this 3) Bright Screen -- readable in virtually every situation AND Faster location of the GPS satellites. This turns out to be quite important in day-to-day use. In the other systems, it wasn't unusual that we could be driving for a couple minutes before it located the satellites and could give us directions. With this unit, the satellites are located almost as quickly as the unit fully starts up. One comment on how we use this: We don't mount it on the dash board or on the window (which is technically illegal here in California). Instead we just lay this on the center console in our van or car. The antenna system is plenty sensitive to work just like this and we've never lost the satellite signals except in tunnels. We also like all the potential of the traveling features (clock, calculator, etc.), but this is the one to own even if you just use it for the basic GPS features. Very impressed. [July 2006 Update] How Its Ease-of-Use Enhanced Our Vacation: We were recently on a vacation combined with a business conference. While I was at the conference, my family had the confidence to explore the city without ever getting lost. Even our kids were able to help enter addreses and find locations. Factoring In Added Cost: Just a warning about upgrade costs. Although Garmin does a good job of releasing updates to their system software that either fixes bugs or adds enhancements, the cost to update the built-in maps is extra. And they issue updates about once a year. Comments (15) | Permalink | (Report this)

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Updated on 6-8-2008.