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Garmin - nuvi 350 GPS Receiver

Garmin - nuvi 350 GPS Receiver Review



Overall 4.29 of 5 view all 17 reviews




It is a must have for any driver.
5 star rating

computer literate
Pros

    portable, Easy to use, accurate, handy tool, Fast, Sleek and small with wallet to protect


MAR
7
2008
Set up was a breeze, the PDF is available on Garmin.com so I had a couple of days to read and reread the manual (it's a quick read) but turned out to be a snap to get up and running... The nuvi found me in the house even though I was on the first floor in an area that is a dead zone for most electronics. I had test routes in mind to put it through... a few roads that were difficult, as which were the best roads to take, the first one I tried could have thrown me on the highway for a single exit instead of the road I knew to be shorter and a coin toss as to whether it was quicker- nuvi didn't get fooled!, it found some roads that I was sure were too new to be on a database. The sound is excellent for its size and sounds better once mounted. Not having a qwerty keypad input is one swift pain, the numeric keypad is very childish with numbers running in sequence- have they never used a calculator?, I hope that all owners let Garmin know... they have a reputation of being responsive to input and modifying software updates to accommodate.

Just returned from Florida where I used the nuvi for five days- tons of fun I now know that the Jet Blue airbus was traveling a moving average of 558 miles an hour with a maximum speed of 644 mph! the max speed was achieved on decent...WOW. A couple of issues did arise, a few years ago I rented a Jaguar with a gps system and it got me to my brothers driveway and announced that I had arrived! I figured that with the new map system and advanced satellite network that the accuracy would be better yet it showed me at the house just before his..... this is a bit confusing but I think we figured it out, we noticed that Google maps showed his house not in the right place, so the older gps with a greater inaccuracy split the difference and it's best guess was the center of the inaccuracy...close enough announced the arrival, the nuvi in this case was insistent on being accurate! Not a big problem just set the new location and rename it. Since my brother knew his way around town we were treated to a nice woman's voice constantly "recalculating" we noticed that the recalculating exclamation almost had a harsh tone to it (slightly condescending) so those of you who are missing a wife who sighs when she thinks you've made an mistake in your shortcut will feel comforted.

Found the battery life to be short of two hours but we were constantly playing music and touching the screen that brings on the back light...also I had the backlight set to two minutes. The battery life should be better once one stops playing with it and just let it do it's job.

I_thumb_up Garmin - nuvi 350 GPS Receiver is recommended by no1special07


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