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| Garmin nüvi 350 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Suction Cup Mount, AC Charger, and Carrying Case | 
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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $329.99
Buy Refurbished: $124.98
You Save: $205.01 (62%)
New (30) Used (7) Refurbished (14) from $124.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  2743 reviews
Sales Rank: 4
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Display Size: 3.5
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 3.9 x 0.9 x 2.9
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MPN: 010-00455-00
Model: 010-00455-00
UPC: 846330000132
EAN: 0846330000132
ASIN: B000BKJZ9Q
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Might be great, but Amazon ships so slow September 13, 2006
18 out of 40 found this review helpful
Update 5/7/07 - I did finally get this and I really love it. I take it with me whenever I travel. Great for last minute trips. It's never failed me. If I could change my rating I would put it at 5 stars.
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My friend has one and it is great. Beware of Amazon's shipping policies. I ordered mine on Aug 30th and still don't have it on September 12 even though I paid for overnight shipping. Amazon falsely advertises they have it in stock and will get it to you the next day. I called and they said they couldn't answer on the phone and I would have to write them. I wrote them and they didn't address the issue. I wrote them again, and they never answered. Apparently Amazon has a new policy to advertise they have items in stock when they actually don't. I asked them point blank if that's their policy and they declined to answer. It is the best price if your prepared to wait a very long time. Hopefully they'll actually ship it soon since I joined their prime membership and paid for overnight shipping.
 Fine when it works, terrible customer support September 8, 2006
8 out of 38 found this review helpful
When it works, it does what it claims to do. But mine broke after about 2 months. The unit would stay on for only a few seconds then shuts off by itself.
Contacted customer support, sent the unit back, they couldn't fix it, so they sent a new one back to an address that doesn't exist in a different city. Luckily, UPS contacted me and got my correct address. Same thing happens to the new unit, then we figured out that it was the car charger's problem. They send a new car charger out, but again to the wrong address. Still waiting for the new car charger.
 Nuvi is a blessing September 7, 2006
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I bought Nuvi to use when I travel out of town for work. "She" has become my constant companion.
This device is easy to use, and so incredibly handy. Beats the heck out of online maps, which are not easily modifiable on the road. Nuvi has allowed me great flexibility and I do not worry about getting lost in a foreign (to me) locale.
Very unreliable directions September 4, 2006
19 out of 40 found this review helpful
This is my edited review, two weeks ago I gave 2 stars to the device - now only one. I cannot understand how this device has received near 200 glorious reviews.
We have had it for 2 weeks, and we've decided to return it. Its directions are wildly unreliable:
1. On well-familiar routes it chooses non-optimal way in 90% times. When I do not obey and select my own route, it for awhile tries to redirect me to the "correct" way before it understands and begins to cooperate.
2. It makes plainly absurd decisions:
a) the simplest way was to go straight on the street - the device adviced me to turn right from that street, then left and again left and... to return to the same street after this unneeded detour;
b) my destination was 150 feet from the right turn on the right side - it adviced me to make a left turn and then to make the U-turn;
c) I needed to enter a highway south which is on the left, and the closest entrance was 0.1 mile on the left - the device directed me in the opposite direction to another entrance 1.5 miles to the north.
3. It gives plainly wrong directions: to enter a highway I needed to make 3 immediate right turns - the device told me only about two turns, positioned my car in the opposite direction and ordered to drive 2 miles in that direction south while its (and my) intention was to drive 2 miles north.
4. It is bad with intersections. I had an address in Brewster, NY: intersection of Rtes 6 & 22. I tried to enter Rt. 6, Rte 6, Route 6 - in every case the response was: "No matches found".
But the place does exist there.
5. It is bad and inconsistent with very curved roads. Sometimes it treats a curvature as a right or left turn even though the street does not change its name there. Sometimes it ignores the curvature even when the name is changed, so it would be more logical to treat the curvature as a turn.
6. Couple times it commanded a turn to somebody's private driveway with no real street nearby.
I am rather good in directions myself but my wife has a problem with orientation, and she dreamt about the GSP. However, she has driven with this device and decided that for any new trip she, as before, needs to study a map and to ask for directions in advance rather than to rely on this imperfect instrument. So why to pay $620?
Possibly the Best Electronic Device Ever! September 3, 2006
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
For years, I've used and relied on a Garmin StreetPilot III and thought it was great. But technology has obviously improved over the past few years, and I couldn't be more impressed with my Nuvi 350. Imagine a device about the size of a PDA, only much lighter, which contains detailed road data for the entire country. It's so light, in fact, that I don't believe that the suction cup mount will ever give out. I love the way it clearly speaks the directions, including the names of the streets. But the REALLY cool thing about the Nuvi is that there's no learning curve! Due to the super-easy touch screen, you can take the device right out of the box and easily use it right away without reading any material at all. In fact, you could tell your 90-year old grandmother to please go to your car and program a destination into the device, and she could do it with amazing ease. This may be one of the more expensive portable GPS devices out there, but it's worth every penny. If you're shopping around, stop now. This is the best GPS in the world!
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