Reviewed: Garmin Nuvi 350 Pocket Vehicle GPS Navigator with Maps for North America

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Garmin Nuvi 350 Pocket Vehicle GPS Navigator with Maps for North America

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05th of September 2008





What if one device could assist you navigate anyplace in the U.S. and Canada, while giving travel info, storing your beloved tunes and photos, translation help, and more? That device is here, and it is not much larger than a deck of cards. The Garmin nüvi 350 is set to modernize what we expect from a GPS navigation device, or from any device .

The nüvi 350 is a movable GPS navigator, traveler's reference, and digital entertainment system, all in one. View product demo requires Flash.

A simple touchscreen interface and voice guidance let you to keep your eyes on the road. View bigger.

Listen to an audio book or an MP3 while you are on the road. View bigger.

Design
With a total weight of 5.1 ounces and thin measurements of 3.87 x 2.91 x 0.87 inches WxHxD, the nüvi 350 is perfect for the pocket or purse. A bright, 64,000 color display leads the front of the device and a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels means that there is lots of room for showing map data and other elements of the device's interface. An SD memory card slot is made available for expansion software, like a points of interest database, media files and electronic guides see below. The flip up antenna will include an MCX type connector for connecting the unit to an external GPS antenna. In the meantime, a powerful fitted speaker is on the back of device. A fitted lithium ion battery will give you for to eight hours of battery life, based on use. also to an AC charger, the unit also comes with a 12 volt power adapter for car charging, also as a windshield suction cup mount.

luckily, Garmin has made it simple to interact with the nüvi 350's 700 megabytes of onboard memory, thanks to "plug and play" USB mass storage support. Just input the device into your computer's USB port and you have got instant access to all the audio books, music, photos, additional maps and other data on the nüvi 350's interior and SD card memory.

Navigation
The nüvi 350 is 1st and primary a personal GPS device. Wherever you go in your car or on foot the device offers very correct position data, thanks to a high sensitivity integrated GPS receiver by SiRF and WAAS enabled, 12 satellite reception. joint with in depth maps of the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico the nüvi 350 gives auto routing, turn by turn voice directions, and touchscreen control making it simple to find your way anywhere. Plus, the distinctive "text to speech" feature calls out turns by street name, and you may be able to decide from either 2D or 3D mapping views when you are looking at your path on the display. also, the nüvi 350 is matched with Garmin's GTM ten FM TMC traffic receiver , which lets users to avoid traffic tie ups by just pushing a button that will compute a new path.

As mentioned, the nüvi 350 comes filled with mapping data for North America, but you may be able to may also load up your custom points of interest. Set up closeness alerts for school zones, safety cameras, and more using Garmin's free POI points of interest loader program available from garmin.com.

The device automatically calculates the fastest path and gives voice prompted turn by turn directions along the way.

Tools for the Journey
Navigation is just part of the journey, and the nüvi 350 is one of the 1st devices to recognize that. The fitted "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.

also to the included travel tools, extra software add ons are available, like the Garmin Language Guide, with data offered by Oxford University Press. This software suite holds a multilingual word bank, phrase bank, and five bilingual dictionaries. The multilingual word bank and phrase bank supports nine languages and dialects, as well as American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, European Spanish, and Latin American Spanish. Now you may be able to 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 articulation of each entry in the word bank, with gender and part of speech info.

Another useful software package, the Garmin Travel Guide, is filled with info offered by Marco Polo. These guides put in depth travel info like reviews and suggestions for restaurants, tourist attractions, and more at your fingertips. The software lets 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 path and gives voice prompted turn by turn directions along the way. The unit also audibly states the name of forthcoming streets letting you keep your eyes on the road while navigating through heavy traffic and difficult roadways. And if you stray off course, the nüvi 350 automatically calculates the fastest way to get back on track.

Traffic services available only in choose cities where RDS TMC coverage exists. Requires the GTM ten FM TMC traffic receiver and subscription fee to enable traffic capability.

What's in the Box
nüvi 350, travel kit, car suction cup mount, carrying case, 12 24 volt adapter cable, dashboard disk, USB interface cable, sample language guide content, sample MP3s, and fast reference guide.




Garmin Nuvi 350