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| Garmin nüvi 360 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Bluetooth and Text-to-Speech | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $279.99
Buy Refurbished: $187.99
You Save: $92.00 (33%)
New (23) Used (9) Refurbished (10)
Avg. Customer Rating:  1018 reviews
Sales Rank: 15
Color: Li-Io
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 320x240
Display Size: 3.5
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: 053759058846
EAN: 0753759058845
ASIN: B000EXS1BS
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not perfect but a Big Help August 14, 2008
This product has been a savior when trying to get around town. It has directed me down a few dead-end streets that probably show as going through on the maps. My only real complaint is the the window holder that came with the unit broke on the first hot day, now I'm propping it up in the ash tray.
 Garmin nvi 360 August 13, 2008
Did some research before purchasing this unit. Turned out to be the right decision. Easy to use and has all the features I needed. To date I have only one complaint. After entering my home address I am advised that there is no such address. When being directed back to the road I live on, the directions take me 10 miles out of the way in a half circular route. Not sure what to blame for that. No other complaints.
Excellent August 13, 2008
I recently moved to a new city and did not know the layout of where things were. I made a go at printing down maps and direction from google and the likes but somehow driving and looking at a piece of paper often led to a few scary moments, in came the nuvi 360. Right off the bat the ability to program the directions and have the direction spoken to you as well as shown on a map made my getting around a simple feat. The garmin was simple and intuitive making it easy to understand and to use. Added to this was the food, gas feature which pointed the nearest gas station or your favorite eatery from your present location. I definetly recommend this product to anyone interested.
Great GPS! August 13, 2008
After doing a lot of research around the internet, I bought this model. (It was between this one and the same model without the bluetooth option. I went with the bluetooth option thinking I would use my cell phone with it and be a safer driver, but don't use it.)
As far as how it does what it is supposed to do - get you there with great directions - it is flawless. We drove from Massachusetts to Myrtle Beach, then Orlando and then back to Massachusetts - and this thing made the trip easy!
The display is bright and easy to see, the menus are easy to use and finding points of interest is a breeze. It was great when we needed to find a place to stay for the night, for example. We asked it to show us the hotels close to where we were while on I-95 near Washington, called three (phone numbers are right on the screen) and ended up getting a great 'last minute' deal at a Clarion Suites. A $250 room for $89. This Garmin will pay for itself in no time!
The mounting bracket is easy to take on and off the windshield, and is rock solid when attached. Even the way they designed how the wires attach to it and your car's power outlet show a lot of thought. The wire is attached to the mounting bracket, on the back of it, so it hangs with little fuss.
The battery seems to last a long time on a charge as well. The choice of voices and vehicle icons are fun - we settled on Jack from the U.S. and the vacation station wagon. Text to speech is fun as well, as it actually reads the names of places you add to it's memory. Instead of 'Home', for example, I have it actually say our family's name and then the word residence - it does it perfectly.
This unit is the best in it's price class!
I'm not using the bluetooth option yet, because the first time I tried it to call home from the car my wife said it was hard to understand me (although I could hear her just fine). I haven't taken the time since then to see if I could tweak it. It dies, however, know that I am in the car with my phone in my pocket without having to do a thing - so I know bluetooth works.
Buy this one!!
Excellent GPS August 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pros:
-Bluetooth: I debated whether or not to get this unit or one of the lower ones with no bluetooth, but for the price difference (from my research it was only around a $40 difference), I decided to go with the bluetooth. I had heard all kinds of things about pairing problems and address books not being sent, but it has worked flawlessly with my Blackberry (Pearl 8130). The unit's speaker is clear and loud enough for talking on it as your hands free unit, and it's so nice to be able to see who's calling without digging around in your pocket when your phone rings. Definitely worth it.
-Navigation: I don't have a lot of experience with other GPS units so I can't compare, but this gets me where I need to go pretty darn well. There seems to be an affinity with this (and all GPS/mapquest/navigation aids) with "county routes", I don't know about anyone else but in the tri-state area, CR's are incredibly easy to get lost on, and generally most people know county routes by other names (i.e. call it "Ringwood Ave", don't call it CR-511 I have no idea what that is). But this is ok because the screen is so clear on where you have to turn, and the text-to-speech does a wonderful job of making sure you know which way you're going to be turning. There was an area in North Jersey that is an absolute cluster [expletive deleted] of construction cones and roads diverted onto off ramps and god knows what else, and this did a flawless job of getting me through it painlessly. This unit also does a fantastically quick job of getting you on the right path again if you miss a turn. Obviously the most important factor in a GPS unit, and this does an A+ job.
Ease of use/utility: Plug it in, turn it on, type in an address and press go. Doesn't get easier than that! I also love the small size, fits right into my pocket. I can use it to find my way around, find restaurants or movie theaters locally, and then dial them right from the Garmin and make reservations or get show times! I love this feature. Navigation is the most important factor, but this little gem does that great, and more.
Cons:
Finding a satellite signal: Luckily, this hasn't been a problem when I really was relying on it to find where I was going, but a lot of times when I have it on driving around an area I know, when it's first starting up, it takes a long time to find a signal, even on perfectly sunny days. It's to the point where I'm driving for ten minutes and it says "trouble finding signal" and then asks me what day it is and whether or not I'm indoors or have moved 1,000 miles away since my last use. The times this doesn't happen, it finds a signal almost instantaneously, and sometimes it's not quite ten minutes, but this happens more often than I had expected given all the reviews I read about how quickly it finds a signal.
Windshield mount: After having it about a month, this has stopped working for the most part. The mount will stick, and then fall off after a little while. This is fairly annoying since it's the only mount I really feel like using (the suction one costs extra and is kind of unsightly, and the dashboard mount it comes with is more permanent).
Mixed:
Music player/speaker: The music player is pretty cool, I have an SD disk in there with about a half a gig worth of music. The problem is, out of the box, this is impossible to use as a music player. Unlike the bluetooth phone which only is hard to hear if you're going 70 with the windows open, this sound quality is so poor with the internal speaker you won't be using it instead of your ipod or your cd player any time soon. With that said, a lot of new cars have AUX inputs in their cars, so all you need is a 3.5mm wire and you plug it right into the headphone jack, and then you've music through your car's stereo system. Not only that, you also would then get your GPS and phone through your stereo system. Not bad. If you don't have an AUX in, but you have a custom stereo, you can just get some standard Audio cables, plug 'em into the back of your stereo and accomplish the same thing. It's also neat that if you're playing music and using it to navigate, it will pause the music to issue voice directions, then resume where you left off in the song. It also does a nice job of not completely screwing you up if you don't know where you're going and you get a phone call on it. Click Answer or Ignore and it goes right back to the map. Nice. BUT, if you don't have an easy way of getting this hooked through your car's stereo system, the music player is kind of useless.
Overall:
Really, this is a great little unit. It does it's main function extremely well, and even though the speaker isn't the greatest, there are ways around that and there is real integration here with music, navigation and phone in one. If it weren't for some problems with sometimes getting a signal, and if the windshield mount wasn't largely dysfunctional, this would be an easy 5 star product. But even with those negative, this is an easy recommendation, it's more than worth the money now that the price has come down so much.
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