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| Garmin nüvi 370 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Bluetooth, Text-to-Speech, North American & European Maps | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $899.99
Buy New: $249.99
You Save: $650.00 (72%)
New (24) Used (1) Refurbished (2)
Avg. Customer Rating:  211 reviews
Sales Rank: 199
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Display Size: 3.5
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.4
Dimensions (in): 1 x 3 x 2
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 0100053878
Model: 0100053878
UPC: 753759068011
EAN: 0753759068011
ASIN: B000MF7L5A
Release Date: January 8, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 garmin nuvi 370 review September 8, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
excellent product. I have had the chance to use it in the US as well UK and Denmark.
 Glaring Limitations September 8, 2007
17 out of 27 found this review helpful
Some things work fairly well - it doesn't do as good a job as my Toyota GPS, but it's ok in a pinch in a car that doesn't have a GPS to start with. I bought it for a trip to Italy, both driving and walking. The first thing I wanted to do with it was "go" to Rome and look around the streets where I would be walking to and from my hotel. It doesn't do that. Oh, it could, but the designers never thought of it. I can enter "Rome", but it tries to make a driving route to there from California. After a long while it bombs and says "out of memory", then takes me back to California. It's so stupidly single minded it is unable to just go view an area for a while. My Toyota in-car GPS is pretty darn limited, and unimaginative, but it will at least do that!
Other things on this little device are similarly restricted. Perhaps if the developers spent less time putting extra junk on these things, like Bluetooth stereo music, and actually tried using the device as a map for a while, they would go "duh, oh, yeah" and finish the software.
I hate products that don't fulfill their promise. This is one.
 It will take you from point A to point B - thats all September 6, 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
The way I see it, it will take you from point A to point B. How it takes you there is a different matter. It might take you through small streets (inefficient routes), into toll roads without announcing that you are entering a toll road or simply right into a traffic jam or might ask you to make 3 left turns in place of just 1 right turn to the reach the same point B. It did not recognize that I was in a parking lot right next to freeway and advised me to go through the wall and directly into freeway - no ramp - nothing. Probably it was thinking I was on a freeway shoulder - parking being close to the freeway (it was not too close though). What it will do in Europe's towns/small roads/countryside, I am sure, will be a story to tell. Just wonder why address entry is not QWERTY - might be to fit all the alphabets in ABC hard to enter fashion?? It takes a while to get used to ABC text entry. Overall - 3 stars.
You won't get lost September 6, 2007
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Always got me to my destination. It knows major and somewhat major roads very well. For local roads its 90% correct. Its not that it can't get you where you are going, its just that sometimes it takes awkward turns. Sometimes, however, this proves to be an advantage as you can often find new routes that you never thought of. A few times the directions have been dead wrong. For example the Garmin tried to send me down a 1-way street--the wrong way. You can always temporarily ignore those less then optimal directions and the Garmin will always recalculate new directions automatically.
I'm not convinced the attachable FM Traffic receiver is worth the extra money--it's free for, I think 2 months. After that, there is a monthly fee. Traffic information reception is not available everywhere (especially outside of major cities) plus it did not seem to not attempt to route me around traffic anyway.
I was worried about the size of the LCD screen, there being a larger, more expensive model out. I'm glad I got this size because: A. As a map, the Garmin is very awkward. You LISTEN to the directions, not look at the map B: A bigger unit takes up more space on my windshield and pocket.
All in all a great piece of technology.
awesome in germany September 4, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
i used the nuvi 370 on the German autobahn, nurburgring race track (as a stop watch), and in small towns throughout bonn and wolfsberg area germany and it worked flawlessly.
my only complaint is the short battery life that necessitates carrying the car charger all the time.
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