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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: $180.00
You Save: $99.99 (36%)
New (34) Used (7) Refurbished (10)
Avg. Customer Rating:  1075 reviews
Sales Rank: 12
Color: Li-Io
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
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: 053759058846
EAN: 0753759066499
ASIN: B000EXS1BS
Release Date: October 4, 2008 (New: This Week)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Device September 15, 2008
I've had this for about a month now and it works great. One problem I had is that the description wasn't clear about whether or not it comes with the car charger. I ended up buying one to go with it and it turned out I didn't need it, so I returned it to Amazon. The screen is very easy to read. It has a low profile and sits right on my car windshield where I can see it well. I love the lock out feature. It comes with little decals that say "Garmin Lock" on them and you put them in your window. Once you put in the pin#, no one can use your GPS except for you. If it gets stolen, it's useless. All GPS devices should have this so the thieves know to stay away. I also like the little carry case that came with it. You can also choose female or male for your voice. My old GPS was female only. The only other problem I had with it is that it took me to an old location of a restaurant that had moved about a year ago. Luckily it only moved down the street. So after some asking around, we finally found our way there. I have not tried the bluetooth yet.
 Not bad, not great September 15, 2008
I bought this as a higher end replacement for a 2xx series Garmin GPS that I had. I was it had BlueTooth for use as a speakerphone, TTS, etc. and jumped on it. It will sometimes add 30 minutes to my trip thinking one route is better than another when it's significantly worse. The BT speakerphone, well, it sucks. It doesn't work very well, the speaker is too quiet and and callers could barely hear me.
 Great GPS but the product age shows September 14, 2008
Over the years I've had the opportunity to use GPS products from multiple manufacturers like Garmin, Magellan, Tom-Tom & Navigon....even though the Gamin NuVI 360 is a great GPS product, it was developed a couple of years back and in today's world the age shows.
Here what I like:
1) Great routing! - The NuVI definitely does the best job with routing from point A to B.
2) Bluetooth Phone integration - This is something that really comes handy, especially when you are traveling alone....this is better than bluetooth headsets since you get to see the name/number of the person calling you before you accept/reject the call. Making calls is also a piece of cake with Phonebook integration. Bluetooth was the primary reason why I selected this model.
3) Text to Speech - One of the most necessary things when you are out on the road!
4) Awesome POI database - You'll get just about any place of interest on this product....the database is waaaaay better than the other GPS products in the market. And with Bluetooth integration, you can directly call up a POI on-the-go.
5) Great Garmin Support - Garmin probably has the best support system, with the support site giving regular product updates & softwares.
What I DO NOT like:
1) Zip based address search not supported. This is available in almost all other modern products. At times you do not know the name of the city, you just have the address zip code....that wouldn't work here.
2) Context based text entry not supported. Once you have selected the city, other products like the Magellan will highlight just those characters on screen that would make up the next character of a valid street name in the selected city. Comes in really handy when you are trying to quickly enter an address. Not supported in the NuVI 360
3) Next turn direction indicator not shown on screen. Even though you'll get the direction after a click, while driving, it makes a big difference to get to see this all the time
4) Speed Limit not shown - The Navigon always shows the speed limit on the current road on screen. The NuVI knows internally what the speed limit is (try using the "simulation" mode, the simulated car will always travel at, or near, the valid speed limit for that road). However, this DOES NOT come up on screen and there's no way you'll get that information.
5) Navigon's "Reality View" is an awesome help on highway bifurcations. Not available on any of the other products.
Overall the NuVI 360 is a great "old" product. Good to see that Garmin has withdrawn it from the market.
Great GPS September 13, 2008
Awesome GPS!!! Garmin has the easiest to use and most accurate GPS systems, and this model is a great price for having the text to speech feature (announcing road names). My only complaint is the lack of a paper manual, because when you first get it you are so excited to use it and just go to your car with it to set up. However, setup and use are relatively easy and the accuracy and search features are right on.
The 360 has been a good first GPS Navigator September 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was the first GPS navigator that I've owned, I've had it for about 18 months now and I'll probably use it for another 4-5 years before I upgrade. I researched this a lot before I bought, comparing it to TomTom and Magellen's offerings. At the time they just didn't seem to have the feature set or map capabilities that Nuvi 360 had. That may have changed.
I keep discovering more nice operational features every time I take it on a long trip. Mostly by accident, although I've surfed some GPS forums and found a few nice bits of info.
Pros:
1. Very good display, but my next will be bigger. Still I'd want the replacement to fit in my shirt pocket nearly as nicely as Nuvi does.
2. Works very well with BlueTooth on my Blackberry Curve AFTER Garmin released the bug fix for it. No distortion. I use this a lot more than I thought I would.
3. MP3 player is nice, but I've only used it on one trip where I was trying to reduce the amount of individual devices I was taking.
4. Locking suction cup window mount works the best of any I've ever used. Only fallen off the windshield twice in over 12,000 highway miles.
5. Touch screen works well, even with my "fat fingers".
6. I like that it's smart enough to know what time the sun rises and sets and changes the display colors from day to night, although it's not smart enough to know when it's crossed timezones and reset the clock or arrival time.
7. I like being able to download free "points of interest" from POI-factory.com and install them using Garmin's free downloadable software.
8. The ability to plug in an SD card to expand the memory has come in handy more than once. My SD card currently has a half dozen family photos and some MP3's.
9. Relatively inexpensive map updates. [...]for the very expensive Alpine OEM Navi that came in my 2005 Honda Pilot. I'll never update the Pilot!
Cons:
1. All text-to-speech navigators have this problem, it has no etiquette when it comes to announcing directions! :) She just blurts them out no matter what else is going on at the time and tries to talk over the human beings in the car. This is typically met with the rowdier passengers asking "What's the b***** saying now???" And I haven't found any quick way to get her to repeat what she just said.
2. Some maps are badly out of date. In 1983 a huge mudslide wiped out part of Highway 6 near Thistle, Utah. Twenty-five years later (!) Nuvi still thinks it's there and recalculates over and over as you drive the "new" two mile stretch. Also, there was supposed to be an Arby's in a very empty field near Cheyenne, Wyoming.
3. No way to teach it a shortcut.
4. I think some speed limits have been changed on I-90 in New York since Nuvi got updated. This summer I was traveling 5-10 mph faster than the posted 65 Mph speed limit and Nuvi kept adding time to my final arrival time. This didn't happen anywhere else. Usually my arrival time decreased.
5. It would be nice to be able to select what 6 things are displayed on the page that shows Overall Avg, Moving Avg, Max Speed, etc. I flip back and forth between it and the map page to see how much distance I have left vs projected arrival time.
6. I wish there was an option to show you just gas/food/lodging, etc. that are close to your projected forward path only, and not include the places you passed 2 miles back. Someday I might want to turn around and drive back 19 miles to a McDonalds, :) but mostly I want to know where the next one is coming up.
7. I wish the keyboard screen was QWERTY instead of ABCDE.
All in all it's been a good little helper and better than 98% of the time it gets us where we want to go in the most efficient manner.
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