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| Garmin nüvi 350 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Text-to-Speech | 
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| Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $329.99
Buy New: $199.90
You Save: $130.09 (39%)
New (51) Refurbished (9)
Avg. Customer Rating:  2545 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
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: 0753759061913
ASIN: B000BKJZ9Q
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Nice, but I wish I could choose an alternate route easier August 30, 2008
I bought this as present for my wife who is always getting lost. The nice thing about this unit is that it is so simple and easy to use. Entering an address is easy because all you have to put in is the first few letters of a street, city or state and the GPS will lookup the names for you. Amazingly it will also find businesses and land marks. I found it's only flaw returning from a camping trip. I left the map at home and put my trust in Sally (our name for the GPS). There were three routes home: the shortest involved a high toll, our prefered was longer, but with little traffic and the third was a roundabout route that was on interstate, but had lots of traffic. I chose "Go Home" and we started on our way. I soon releized it had chosen the route with the expensive toll (it doesn't show your planned route). I could have stopped, gone into settings and changed the default route selection to "avoid tolls" and then re-entered the trip, but then I would have had to remember when I got home to change the settings back. Instead I just kept going straight towards our prefered route in hopes the GPS would "recalculate" and take us on our prefered route. Instead it took us on the long way around on the interstate. It was a horible trip with tons of traffic and I cursed the GPS the whole way. It's a machine and only knows the shortest route based on distance and highway types. It does not know which roads are congested and which ones have construction. It would be nice if the GPS showed you it's planned route and allowed you to easily modify it. Otherwise it's a great unit at a great price.
 It really works well August 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I waited a long time to get one of these, but the features and the price finally convinced me. It was $200 through Amazon for the Nuvi 350. It works really well and is amazing for the price. You can even get the lesser models for even less money. I went for the 350 since it had the text-to-speech feature, but if you can live without that, then you can get a nuvi for even less.
The map and directions are very accurate. It even understands access roads, roads within parks and other things you might not expect it to know. The device is very simple to use with the touch screen. You need to understand the navigation options for shortest distance and fastest route. In most cases, you want the latter because it favors major highways and the like, but sometimes you may want shortest distance if you are looking for an alternate route.
I got a free map upgrade, but that is not very well advertised in the package. There was a yellow sheet with very small text which explained that. It was complicated to download the map and took a long time since the file was so large, but I got through it.
The one issue I have is that from my house, it takes a while to synchronize with the satellites for some reason. In other locations it synchronizes immediately.
Some neat features you might not realize is that it gives you an estimate of your arrival time, which is cool and it gives you a digital readout of your speed, which is very accurate on the highway.
In general I think the nuvi is the coolest thing and turn it on even when I know where I'm going to get the estimated time of arrival and to learn the names of the streets and other POI.
LOVE IT! August 29, 2008
Let me begin by saying this is my 3rd GPS. I have owned the Garmin C530 and the C580. Both were stolen. I loved them as well, so as you can see, you are not going to find a complaint out of me!
The selling feature for me on this unit was the size! It's slim and it fits into my purse! I REFUSE to allow another GPS unit to be stolen out of my car.
Quick and easy to use right out of the box. 2 minutes from start to finish!
Having just moved here, I am totally lost without a GPS. I can't turn left at the corn field. I need a bit more information than that! The Garmin will give it to you!
Great Value Overall August 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Overall a great unit for the price. We've used it to find many places to and from vacation with relative ease. Not sure how other GPS systems work, but this unit typically took 5+ minutes on occasion to locate the nearest satellite upon powering up and waiting to get on the road. A minor inconvenience when you're sitting in your vehicle waiting to get back on the road. Also, when we changed the voice options, we noticed that some voices would text-to-speech the street names while other voices would not. It would have been nice to know which voices used text-to-speech before-hand.
Garmin NUVI 350 August 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This unit orginally sold at close to $1000. At $200 it is a bargain. If you require a basic GPS this is the best on the market with Text to Speech Directions, and NavTeq maps. I found out that you do not need a larger GPS since when you drive you listen to the directions rather than look at the screen. Not only that, it comes with all the accessories that Garmin charges extra for on their other and newer units. I understand that Garmin may discontinue it soon, so grab it while it is available.
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