Product Details
- Brand: Garmin
- Model: 010-00455-00
- Dimensions: 2.91" h x .87" w x 3.87" l, 1.00 pounds
- Native resolution: 320 x 240
Features
- Compact 700 MB GPS navigator with bundled MP3/audiobook player, photo viewer, and world travel clock
- Small enough to fit in a pocket or purse; mounts on vehicle windshield with included suction cup
- Preloaded with City Navigator NT maps of U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico
- Turn-by-turn directions, automatic routing, and 320 x 240 color touchscreen display
- Secure Digital (SD) memory card slot; measures 3.87 x 2.91 x 0.87 inches (W x H x D); 1-year warranty
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
What if one device could help you navigate anywhere in the U.S. and Canada, while offering travel tips, storing your favorite tunes and photos, providing translation assistance, and more? That device is here, and it's not much bigger than a deck of cards. The Garmin nüvi 350 is set to revolutionize what we expect from a GPS navigation device, or from any device for that matter.
Which nüvi is Best for You?: Click here to see a quick, simple comparison of features for all Garmin nuvi GPS navigators
 The nüvi 350 is a portable GPS navigator, traveler's reference, and digital entertainment system, all in one. View product demo (requires Flash). |
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 A simple touchscreen interface and voice guidance allow you to keep your eyes on the road. View larger. |
 Listen to an audio book or an MP3 while you're on the road. View larger. |
With a total weight of 5.1 ounces and slim measurements of 3.87 x 2.91 x 0.87 inches (WxHxD), the nüvi 350 is just right for the pocket or purse. A bright, 64,000-color display dominates the front of the device and a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels means that there's plenty of room for displaying map data and other elements of the device's interface. An SD memory card slot is provided for expansion software, such as a points of interest database, media files and electronic guides (see below). The flip-up antenna includes an MCX-type connector for connecting the unit to an external GPS antenna. Meanwhile, a powerful built-in speaker resides on the back of device. A built-in lithium ion battery will give you for to eight hours of battery life, depending on use. In addition to an AC charger, the unit also ships with a 12-volt power adapter for vehicle charging, as well as a windshield suction cup mount.
Fortunately, Garmin has made it easy to interface with the nüvi 350's 700 megabytes of onboard memory, thanks to "plug-and-play" USB mass storage support. Just plug the device into your computer's USB port and you've got instantaneous access to all the audio books, music, photos, supplemental maps and other data on the nüvi 350's internal and SD card memory.
Navigation
The nüvi 350 is first and foremost a personal GPS device. Wherever you go -- in your car or on foot-- the device offers extremely accurate position data, thanks to a high-sensitivity integrated GPS receiver by SiRF and WAAS-enabled, 12-satellite reception. Combined with detailed maps of the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico the nüvi 350 provides automatic routing, turn-by-turn voice directions, and touchscreen control-- making it easy to find your way anywhere. Plus, the unique "text-to-speech" feature calls out turns by street name, and you can choose from either 2D or 3D mapping perspectives when you're viewing your route on the display. Additionally, the nüvi 350 is compatible with Garmin's GTM 10 FM TMC traffic receiver*, which allows users to avoid traffic tie-ups by simply pushing a button that will calculate a new route.
As mentioned, the nüvi 350 comes packed with mapping data for North America, but you can can also load up your custom points of interest. Set up proximity alerts for school zones, safety cameras, and more using Garmin's free POI (points of interest) loader program (available from garmin.com).
Important note about map updates: Due to our high volume of sales, almost every Garmin portable GPS navigator sold by Amazon.com will come with the most recent map version. If you ever do need a map update, you can purchase one from Amazon.com at our Garmin Store.
 The device automatically calculates the fastest route and provides voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions along the way. |
Navigation is just part of the journey, and the nüvi 350 is one of the first devices to recognize that. The built-in "Travel Kit" offers an MP3 player, an audio book player from Audible.com, a jpeg-format picture viewer, a world travel clock with time zones, a currency converter, a measurement converter, and a calculator.
In addition to the included travel tools, additional software add-ons are available, such as the Garmin Language Guide, with data provided by Oxford University Press. This software suite contains a multilingual word bank, phrase bank, and five bilingual dictionaries. The multilingual word bank and phrase bank supports nine languages and dialects, including American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, European Spanish, and Latin American Spanish. Now you can look up and translate more than 17,000 words or 20,000 phrases per language -- right in the palm of your hand. Through the unit's text-to-speech interface, users can get a spoken pronunciation of each entry in the word bank, along with gender and part of speech information.
Another useful add-on software package, the Garmin Travel Guide, is loaded with information provided by Marco Polo. These guides put in-depth travel information such as reviews and recommendations for restaurants, tourist attractions, and more at your fingertips. The software allows you to navigate to an address or search points of interest-- places like hotels, restaurants, shopping, and tourist attractions. The nüvi 350 automatically calculates the fastest route and provides voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions along the way. The unit also audibly announces the name of upcoming streets-- letting you keep your eyes on the road while navigating through busy traffic and tricky roadways. And if you stray off course, the nüvi 350 automatically calculates the quickest way to get back on track.
*Traffic services available only in select cities where RDS-TMC coverage exists. Requires the GTM 10 FM TMC traffic receiver and subscription fee to enable traffic capability.
What's in the Box
nüvi 350, Preloaded City Navigator NT for North America and Puerto Rico, Vehicle suction cup mount, AC charger, Vehicle power cable, Dashboard disc, USB cable, Carrying case, Quick reference guide
Customer Reviews
Garmin nuvi 350
After reading lots of reviews (both positive and negative) I purchase two of the Garmin nuvi 350's. One review that concerned me was one that had several specific negative points until I noticed the review was a couple of years old and that the problems the person was seeing were probably indicative of the system when it was new and they were still working the kinks out. It takes several hours to download the initial map and software updates (both free) over DSL but works great. I've tried it for going place I know how to get to and places totally new and in the blind. I have to admit that it sometimes it picks a route which is different than I would pick probably because it calculates routes based on real speed limits rather than the accepted speeds. My community is changing rapidly and there are already roads which are not on the Garmin map. I'm sure updates will include these but I'm guessing I'll have to pay for those. The re-routing feature is quick and very helpful. I set up the second unit for my mother-in-law and shipped it to her. It took her awhile to realize that she needed to take it outside a flip up the antennae to get it to register her location. The price on Amazon (which I think was a special) was far cheaper than the lower model Garmins in stores. I actually ordered them at one price and they came out with a lower one before they even shipped the units. After I raised the issue they refunded the difference with no hassle or questions asked.
The 350 is fantastic!
All the reviews are true. This little unit is a gem and so easy to use. I chose the 350 over the 200 for the ability to say the actual street names, longer battery and extra accessories (AC adapter, carring case, etc.) in that order. This unit gets great reception even inside my house.
And is so small I can stick it in my pocket when I leave the car. The interface is very intuitive, I didn't read the manual and was able to figure it out. Just after sunset, or there abouts, it automatically turns to night mode (dark grey land instead of the beige land you see in the pics) making it easier on your eyes.
We were on a trip driving down I-5 in California (for those that don't know, most of I-5 is barren or farm land) and the kids really wanted Taco Bell...looked up the nearest Taco Bell off the freeway in the direction we were going, hit "GO" and it gave me directions and ETA! Since the GPS gets updated every second or so it knows how fast you are going and how long it'll take you to get there! Fabulous.
No more wondering when or where the next food stop/gas station/grocery store/etc. will be. Before our trip I looked up the hotel and attractions we would be going to....saved them to my "favorites" and during the trip I just hit "GO" to whichever location I needed. Fantastic!
Get yourself a Garmin friction dashboard mount...it's much better than the suction cup. With GPS receivers being the number one stolen item the friction mount allows you to easily hide the mount out of site (some theives see the suction mount and break in anyways looking for the GPS hoping you got lazy and left it in the glove compartment). The friction mount also makes it a breeze to transfer the mount between cars. The nuvi works great...you will not be disappointed.
Garmin nüvi 350 system puts the [G]reat [P]roduct [S]old! in GPS
Here's my FULL 100% you'll be satissfied review:
Pros:
1.) It's awesome!
2.) Ships in a timely manner (under Free shipment)
3.) Setup is easy...
4.) Automatically adjusts itself to day time driving vs. night time driving so you don't have to fiddle with the system on the road.
5.) Finds places and calculate them (ACCURATELY)in a snap! Even possible re-routing if you get off track was smooth and easy like DQ soft serve icecream... lol.
6.) Good satellite signal strength where ever u go...
7.) Bluetooth and all the extras are pluses that tipped the scale. They all work well too!!!.
8.) The design is stylish and compact
9.) Navigating is a breeze w/o the "oops.. dang it!" gestures for those with (big wedgy fingers). The big screen touch pad makes typing addresses in 100% mistake free (unless you mispell the address on purpose lol)...
10.) Speech recognizing is accurate in pronounciation of street terms/names and is timely with it too!
11.) Again... you can't get lost in NY or NJ if you have one of these (lol) very very accurate!
12.) Great POI update from web site
13.) Mounting... Oh my goshh!! It's stuck for good! lol naaah it can come off, but will require a mass of force to yank it off from the dash board. so for all those who say they did it on their dash board and it falls off, lol i think they probably rubbed some greese on it b4 sticking the thing on...
14.) Sound quality is very good! even when the windows are down, and your music is on you can still hear clearly...
CONS:
1.) lacking personal touches... Would be nice if more english voices could be downloaded like some wacky spongebob/squidward voices (lol), or a movie star or something..
2.) poor web site construction in terms of freebies!!
3.) little customization via option menu... changing the log on picture isn't what i would call a wow factor garmin...
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