Amazon.com Product Description What if one device could help you navigate anywhere in the U.S. and Canada, while offering travel tips, storing your favorite tunes and photos, providing translation assistance, and more? That device is here, and it's not much bigger than a deck of cards. The Garmin nuevi 350 is set to revolutionize what we expect from a GPS navigation device, or from any device for that matter.
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The nuevi 350 is a portable GPS navigator, traveler's reference, and digital entertainment system, all in one. View product demo (requires Flash).
A simple touchscreen interface and voice guidance allow you to keep your eyes on the road. View larger.
Listen to an audio book or an MP3 while you're on the road. View larger.
Design With a total weight of 5.1 ounces and slim measurements of 3.87 x 2.91 x 0.87 inches (WxHxD), the nuevi 350 is just right for the pocket or purse. A bright, 64,000-color display dominates the front of the device and a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels means that there's plenty of room for displaying map data and other elements of the device's interface. An SD memory card slot is provided for expansion software, such as a points of interest database, media files and electronic guides (see below). The flip-up antenna includes an MCX-type connector for connecting the unit to an external GPS antenna. Meanwhile, a powerful built-in speaker resides on the back of device. A built-in lithium ion battery will give you for to eight hours of battery life, depending on use. In addition to an AC charger, the unit also ships with a 12-volt power adapter for vehicle charging, as well as a windshield suction cup mount.
Fortunately, Garmin has made it easy to interface with the nuevi 350's 700 megabytes of onboard memory, thanks to "plug-and-play" USB mass storage support. Just plug the device into your computer's USB port and you've got instantaneous access to all the audio books, music, photos, supplemental maps and other data on the nuevi 350's internal and SD card memory.
Navigation The nuevi 350 is first and foremost a personal GPS device. Wherever you go -- in your car or on foot-- the device offers extremely accurate position data, thanks to a high-sensitivity integrated GPS receiver by SiRF and WAAS-enabled, 12-satellite reception. Combined with detailed maps of the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico the nuevi 350 provides automatic routing, turn-by-turn voice directions, and touchscreen control-- making it easy to find your way anywhere. Plus, the unique "text-to-speech" feature calls out turns by street name, and you can choose from either 2D or 3D mapping perspectives when you're viewing your route on the display. Additionally, the nuevi 350 is compatible with Garmin's 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.
As mentioned, the nuevi 350 comes packed with mapping data for North America, but you can can also load up your custom points of interest. Set up proximity alerts for school zones, safety cameras, and more using Garmin's free POI (points of interest) loader program (available from garmin.com).
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.
The device automatically calculates the fastest route and provides voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions along the way.
Tools for the Journey Navigation is just part of the journey, and the nuevi 350 is one of the first devices to recognize that. The built-in "Travel Kit" offers an MP3 player, an audio book player from Audible.com, a jpeg-format picture viewer, a world travel clock with time zones, a currency converter, a measurement converter, and a calculator.
In addition to the included travel tools, additional software add-ons are available, such as the 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. Now you can look up and translate more than 17,000 words or 20,000 phrases per language -- right in the palm of your hand. Through the unit's text-to-speech interface, users can get a spoken pronunciation of each entry in the word bank, along with gender and part of speech information.
Another useful add-on software package, the Garmin Travel Guide, is loaded with information provided by Marco Polo. These guides put in-depth travel information such as reviews and recommendations for restaurants, tourist attractions, and more at your fingertips. The software allows you to navigate to an address or search points of interest-- places like hotels, restaurants, shopping, and tourist attractions. The nuevi 350 automatically calculates the fastest route and provides voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions along the way. The unit also audibly announces the name of upcoming streets-- letting you keep your eyes on the road while navigating through busy traffic and tricky roadways. And if you stray off course, the nuevi 350 automatically calculates the quickest way to get back on track.
*Traffic services available only in select cities where RDS-TMC coverage exists. Requires the GTM 10 FM TMC traffic receiver and subscription fee to enable traffic capability.
What's in the Box nuevi 350, Preloaded City Navigator NT for North America and Puerto Rico, Vehicle suction cup mount, AC charger, Vehicle power cable, Dashboard disc, USB cable, Carrying case, Quick reference guide
3600 miles/2 weeks/Never opened a map!October 15, 2008 Yowza All, Did my homework/research and bought the Garmin Nuvi350. Just used "getting started" instructions never bothered to download as the use of unit is very intuitive. Received unit the day before leaving on a 2 week vacation that covered 3600 miles. Unit never faltered. Amazingly the only "wrong" directions were to a Dunkin Donuts that had moved out and now was inhabited by another doughnut shop, no big deal. Miss a turn, unit reconfigures route and arrival time. The information available at your fingertips is staggering. Touch screen easy to use. Volume of unit could be a little louder especially if music is loud. I'm debating patching in to the audio of the vehicle. Never bothered mounting to windshield as I liked it by the center console. Would've ordered the "big chip" memory upgrade but Amazon's delivery time mdidn't fit my schedule. I recommend it but I never got to the point of needing it, I just want to have it "in case'. The "only" flaw I noticed was the inability to remove "places" that have been selected from the "Recent". I can delete all of them but not selectively, too bad. This becomes an issue when on the road and you pull up a variety of selections in say, restaurants. You compare routes of the ones you select but only choose one and then the rest still are on the "Recent". Best money I've spent in a long time, very rarely have a value been this good. Vacation started from our house in Connecticut to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,and Michigan. Covered 3600 miles and never got lost and never had to refold a map. The wife feels this will save marriages for those who use their spouse as a co-pilot. Bob
Great GPSOctober 15, 2008 It is my first time to purchase a GPS. I chose this one based on the review of this item. It works good, fast searching satellite, clear pronunciations. The only thing I need to mention is the map on this GPS is only 2008, but you can go to garmin website to download new 2009 Map by using the serial NO. it is a huge file about 2 GB. it took me one hour to down load and another to update it. Great GPS, works great so far. Owned for one month.
Garmin 350October 15, 2008 We have found the Garmin 350 extremely helpful trying to get to places that we do not know how to get to. It is a very accurate and precise tool to use when on the raid.
I can't get lostOctober 15, 2008 This is the best purchase I've made in a long time. The Garmin has given me directions that cut my usual drive time in half in some cases and I drive with a newfound confidence.
ACQUIRING SATELLITEOctober 14, 2008 First of all, I received this order pretty quickly from Amazon, so kudos to them.
But using the Garmin 350 for a week now, I must say it is quite easy and effective to use... that is, WHEN it starts to work. As with any GPS device, it has to acquire a satellite connection before you start using it. If you're like me and you live in a condo with a basement parking, obviously, you would have to get out of the parking level, get away from your tall buildings, before you can get a satellite signal.
Aside from the initial boot time, which is also quite long, the time it takes to acquire a satellite signal is about 6-8 minutes. So that's a lot of thumb twiddling for you before the Garmin decides to get to work.
So if you're in a hurry... well with this GPS unit, you're going to be late. Better leave 6-8 minutes ahead of time and find an area practically devoid of any structures. Oh and it wants you to wait in the middle of the street while you wait too, otherwise it won't even begin to start working. Be prepared for a lot of people flipping you the bird for holding up traffic.
One last thing, the suction/stand accessory that comes with it is totally useless.
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