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| Garmin nüvi 360 3.5-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Text-To-Speech | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $279.99
Buy New: $174.99
You Save: $105.00 (38%)
New (34) Used (12) Refurbished (9)
Avg. Customer Rating:  1122 reviews
Sales Rank: 19
Color: Li-Io
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 320x240
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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Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: Garmin nüvi products purchased through Troy Ford will receive a full 3-Year Warranty. This is a FULL 2-Years longer than the warranty a consumer would receive, if a similar product was purchased through a consumer retailer.
MPN: 010-00538-00
Model: 010-00538-00
UPC: 753759058845
EAN: 0053759058846
ASIN: B000EXS1BS
Release Date: October 4, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Garmin GPS 360 - Perfect GPS For Anyone! September 23, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I received my Garmin 360 GPS today. I had ordered it on Thursday so it turns out a four day wait on shipping, including the weekend. I am always amazed by Amazon's speeding shipping logistics.
On to the GPS unit....
This product is perfect for my price range (at the time, it was $214, initially selling for $1000 MSRP in 2006). The GPS has everything I am looking for as far as an addition to my vehicle.
Pros:
1) Blue tooth support with my Blackberry 8330
2) Ability to connect the GPS with one single auxiliary cord to my auxiliary input in my car
3) Lots of customizable settings so that it works for me
4) Upgradeable maps
5) Point of interest additions (Garmin, along with a nice google search can produce several sites and uploads for free)
6) Aesthetically pleasing
7) Text to speech (states the street name, not just the distance)
Cons:
1) I had to buy the auxiliary cable separately, but I had no problem doing so
I was deciding back and forth between the 3.5" or the 4.3". Let me tell you that this unit is so perfect with 3.5" that it is not worth the extra $100 or so. It really incorporates a good viewing and I can zoom in or out to my liking. I was able to tweak the settings without the use of the manual, as it is extremely user friendly. The manual that comes with the unit is very summarized, however it comes with a CD that has the full manual with every option for your reading enjoyment.
I recommend this GPS to anyone that is looking for a cost effective, yet top of the line GPS. Honestly, I don't have any reason to buy a GPS for more than this price.
 Great gadget...would like written manual September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My Garmin Nuvi works very well -- when I don't make stupid mistakes. I feel I would KNOW what to do if I had a well-written manual in the glove compartment (as a writer, I would be happy to take this assignment on!). The small "cheat sheet" is not detailed enough and the online information is not useful when you're speeding down a highway with a massive construction project under way.
My only objection to the unit is that in a metropolitan area, you have to be VERY careful to input the correct subub. A generic "Atlanta, Chicago or NY" will not work. However, I understand the same is true for all GPS devices.
I like the size and weight and convenience of my Garmin. It is large enough to easily view and small enough for my purse. The precise voice gives me instructions when I am approaching an upcoming turn.
pretty much as expected September 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this after selling my couple year old PDA gpa that I never used. That thing had the annoying feature of every time the battery died, it unloaded ALL The maps you had loaded in thru the computer. completely beyond aggravation and didn't want to deal with it.
I had tried other garmin nuvis and found them easy to use and what I had expected from a GPS.I had the option to get it built in to my newer car, but with the rate of people breaking in and ripping them out of the dash, I felt more comfortable with a removeable one that I can also bring on journeys in other peoples cars.(or lend it to a person who has no idea where they're going).
I absolutely love that while you're out you can find the nearest target, sephora, grocery store. You can just look up a store by alphabetical order and most likely it'll have one in the system that will work for you. The text-to-speech was as expected and something specific I was looking for was that it said the actual street, not just "turn left if 50 feet". Now it says "turn left in 50 feet on Main Street". The only things I would change is certain things in needs to be more specific about. I sometimes find myself responding to it being like "well, it would have been nice if you had mentioned..." and right now I cant think of a specific incident, only that sometimes I could have used more of a "coming up, look, it's coming up!!" warning or detailed instruction. But heck, it's a machine that gives you directions, so it's pretty great. I also chose this model for the bluetooth feature. I'd never used it before on anything else, but I find it super that when my cell rings, the GPS rings. I don't have to fumble for my phone, I just hit "answer" or "ignore" on the GPS. People say it sounds like I'm in a tunnel when talking to them and that theres a bit of an echo, but for just quick hi, bye kinda things and no long conversations, its perfect. You shouldnt be talking while driving whether it's hands free or not.
I will also note that if you have an AUX jack on your radio(which I use for my IPOD) if you're really nervous about not knowing where you're going,you can plug it into the GPS and the sound comes thru your speakers, so you can control the loudness if you're really just like "I have no clue where I'm going, I want to concentrate on where I'm going and nothing else. GPS, speak to me". You obviously cant listen to the radio when it's like this, so it doesnt interject thru the radio or anything, its just silence when the gps is not speaking.(if you want it to interject, I think thats a feature on the more expensive models that it goes thru your speakers all the time).
I think it has anything you could really need for mild-to-moderate use, not exactly sure what the more expensive models hold, but this one seems to cover a bit of everything without paying an extremely expensive price.
Great little GPS, I'd definitely buy it again.
Does everything it's supposed to do. September 18, 2008
It is very intuitive to use. I love the text to speech function. It reads out the name of the street instead of just giving the distance before a turn. A very useful feature! My samsung A507 cell phone has no trouble syncing with this bluetooth device. It has a more than adequate volume level. The language translator is basic but good. I have not used the mp3 player function. Displaying jpegs via sd card slot was good as well if a touch slow (just nitpicking). I highly recommend this product!
worth buy.. September 16, 2008
overall itz a worth buy...bluetooth is good..no worries in picking up phone while driving...we liked it...
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