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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 Used: $170.00
You Save: $109.99 (39%)
New (25) Used (10) Refurbished (10)
Avg. Customer Rating:  1018 reviews
Sales Rank: 17
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:
 Excellent product, great directions, bluetooth okay August 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I figured I was getting a good product, but I never expected to be so surprised at how REALLY good this one is. It's very easy to use, and the screen is plenty bright to be seen even in the sun. It's about the size of a pack of cards, making it very easy to travel with - you don't feel like you're lugging it along with you, it just tucks away.
We took this on a trip from Central Illinois to Kentucky, including several stops and detours along the way. The directions were very good, and in the one instance where a road no longer went through when Garmin thought it did, the device recalculated the correct route in seconds. It was equally good when we hit a detour on the way back home. I pressed the Detour button, and immediately had a new, very efficient route that only added three minutes to the total estimated time.
The Points of Interest feature works well. It helped us find several restaurants and parks that we wouldn't have known about otherwise. It obviously doesn't know about *everything*, but it is still very helpful. When searching for POI's, you can look for locations near where you are at the time, along your route, near your destination, or near a different city. The POI's are also very nicely categorized so you can quickly find exactly what you're after.
You can store locations in a "Favorites" list. These and other locations (such as but not limited to the POI's) can be inserted as "waypoints" on the way to your main destination, which is a nice feature.
The most helpful feature is how much time the device gives you to make your next turn. You get about a mile on the Interstate, which is generally plenty of time even in heavy traffic. Unfortunately this time is cut down when you're driving in town, and sometimes you don't get enough notice to make the turn on time. However, the device compensates for this somewhat by giving directions such as "In .3 miles turn right on Main Street, then turn left." In that case you at least know what you're going to have to do next and can be ready to do it quickly if you need to.
I also like that it tells you which side of the interstate your exit will be on. It will even tell you when you need to "keep left" or "keep right," so often you don't even need to watch the highway signs.
The text-to-speech feature works well and provides audible directions that are loud enough to hear easily even over an older vehicle that has a lot of road and wind noise.
Accuracy on the open road is usually about 9 or 10 feet, which is shorter than most cars and therefore plenty good.
The device will tell you what time you can expect to reach your destination, which is very accurate. It tallies the amount of time you've spent driving and the time you've spent stopped. It also tells your current speed, your average moving speed, and your overall average speed including time stopped.
As far as the "extra" features go, the MP3 player is remarkably full-featured (browse by album, artist, etc.) and easy to use. The speaker isn't really good enough to get great sound, but it's nice if there's nothing good on the radio. The bluetooth feature is also pretty good, although not outstanding. I can hear callers well, and they can hear and understand me okay, but they do hear some background noise. (I don't know how you'd avoid that in a moving car.)
There are a couple features that I'm not sure are mentioned in the owner's manual that are worth pointing out:
1.) From the menu screen, you can tap the GPS signal strength icon for a report of current positioning accuracy
2.) While traveling to a destination, you can tap the "Turn In..." icon at the lower right to have the next turn read to you, or to scroll through the rest of the directions for the trip with a map and mileage and time estimates for each step.
3.) You can get a short list of remaining turns by tapping the green bar at the top of the map that displays the current information.
4.) Tap the "Estimated Time" button in the lower left to pull up your current speed, average speed, distance driven, etc.
I am highly satisfied with this unit. I can't imagine going back to traveling without it. This makes trips so easy.
 easy to use August 1, 2008
I actually bought this GPS for my son after already buying a 660 for myself last year. This is my second GPS, the first being a Lowrance iWay 500C. After having both, I can honestly say this is easier to use and is much easier to update. It finds almost every address I enter, and I have had no problems with the NUVI.
 Garmin 360 has shortcomings August 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We just concluded a 6,400 mile road trip with our new Garmin 360. Sometimes it worked great and sometimes it didn't. On several occasions it told us to turn when there was no road on which to turn, including three times when we were driving along a large body of water and would have driven into the water if we had attempted a turn. It also did not alert us to road constructions or detours. Also, it frequently told us to turn one direction, when it was obvious that we needed to go the opposite direction. We were within an hour's drive of a famous National Park and when we spelled the name of the park, it did not recognize it. Also, a few times it gave us a route, along with an arrival time, but when we used a map to drive a different route, it said "recalculating" and showed an arrival time much earlier than the one it had recommended(i.e.,even though we had programmed our unit to select the quickest routes, its recommended routes took much longer than the ones that we devised.)
It does everything that is listed August 1, 2008
I bought it Feb 08. I used in it in Washington DC the first week in March. It was dead on and provided better directions than those my company provided. It has met all my needs. Functions and navigation through the menus are self-evident.
I have used it many times and on several long and short trips this year. It is Excellent!
There are 2 things that aren't perfect: it doesn't have Boise sound and you need to flip up the antenna to get it to seach for satellites. With the antenna down, you pretend you are traveling. (Design feature)
BTW: I didn't read the instruction book. I didn't need to.
My wife-unit was dubious when it came in the mail. On our first outing with the NUVI, she named it. Once a woman names an inatimate object, she will keep it. The wife-unit still will not admit I choose well.
Along that line:
My wife is a "Flashing 12" and can only operate the base functions. She won't follow my directions. Of course, women never listen to their husband's instructions. That is a design flaw in the human female and not in the NUVI.
The default female voice reminds my wife of the Harry Mudd's wife from Star Trek, origal series. My wife named our NUVI "Stella." Trekies will understand.
In short, I am exceptionally pleased with every aspect of it.
GARMIN 360 July 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's a little confusing to use, but over all is nice to have. Especially if you're going to places you've neve been before.
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