Garmin Nuvi 350 Pocket Vehicle GPS Navigation & Peronal Travel Assistant Review & Price

With a total weight of 5.1 ounces and slim measurements of 3.87 x 2.91 x 0.87 inches (WxHxD), the nüvi 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 nüvi 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 nüvi 350's internal and SD card memory.

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The nüvi 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 nüvi 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 nüvi 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 nüvi 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).

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Navigation is just part of the journey, and the nüvi 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 nüvi 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 nüvi 350 automatically calculates the quickest way to get back on track.

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nüvi 350, travel kit, vehicle suction cup mount, carrying case, 12-24 volt adapter cable, dashboard disk, USB interface cable, sample language guide content, sample MP3s, and quick reference guide.

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Great GPS : derdmyt
This really is a great GPS unit. Tried TomTom One but returned it because it did not function with my LG VX8300 phone from Verizon despite having bluetooth and all the bells and whistles on my phone. Got this Garmin 350 unit because it was the least expensive of the Garmin group that had real time traffic function available (similar to TomTom One but Garmin needs extra antenna - both require extra subscription fee for this service). Added travel features such as picture viewer and Audible Audio Book compatibility are really nice extras. Also this system is much better and more convenient than any factory installed car GPS system.

I'm so glad I bought this GPS for my father! : Lorene M. Leiter
After reading the great reviews on Amazon, I decided to purchase the Garmin Nuvi 350 Pocket Vehicle GPS for my elderly father. I'm so glad I did. He absolutely loves it! So does my mother. They recently moved to a new state and were getting lost quite a bit. They no longer have that fear. They found the GPS easy to set up and understand. The automated voice is very clear and gives them plenty of notice about upcoming turns. They also love how the screen positions them from their perspective on the road -- that you can actually see the road ahead as you are driving along. My father must have thanked me a hundred times, and there's more good news: They're going to buy me one for my birthday! Yippee!

Love this!!! : Kimberly J. Chow
We just went on a long road trip from SF to San Diego and the garmin made it so much easier. This basically made the trip a lot easier without being afraid of getting lost. I love the feature that tells you the approximate time of arrival and the amount of miles left. The only minus was looking for a restaurant while we were down there and found that the restaurant located was no longer there. Haven't figured out how to update the maps yet.

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This is the differences things between this 2 models.

Size - Nuvi 350 : 9.83 x 7.39 x 2.21 cm
Size - Nuvi 250 : 9.7 x 7.1 x 2 cm

Weight- Nuvi 350 : 144.6 g
Weight- Nuvi 250 : 147.42 g

Battery life 350 : up to 8 hrs
Battery life 250 : up to 5 hrs

Speaks street names 350 : Yes
Speaks street names 250 : No

MP3 player 350 : Yes
MP3 player 250 : No

FM traffic compatible 350 : Yes
FM traffic compatible 250 : No

Audio book player 350 : Yes
Audio book player 250 : No

Headphone jack/audio line-out 350 : Yes
Headphone jack/audio line-out 250 : Yes

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