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nüvi 360
The Ultimate Travel Companion
Introducing the nüvi: A versatile travel assistant thats
approximately the size of a deck of playing cards.
The nüvi is a portable GPS navigator, travelers reference, and
digital entertainment system, all in one. Combined with detailed
maps, the nüvi provides automatic routing, turn-by-turn voice
directions, and finger-touchscreen controlmaking it easy to find
your way anywhere.
Travel Kit™
The nüvi also offers a travel kit of useful travel tools to help
keep any journey fun: MP3 player, audio book player from
Audible.com, JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time
zones, currency converter, measurement converter, and calculator.
In addition, optional software packages such as the Language Guide
and Travel Guide (sold separately on SD Data cards) can be added
for language and content support.
Language Guide™ software (optional)
Users can access an optional 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. The
Language Guide lets travelers look up and translate more than
17,000 words or 20,000 phrases per language. Through the units
text-to-speech interface (offered only on the nüvi 350), users can
get a spoken pronunciation of each entry in the word bankalong
with gender and part-of-speech information.
Travel Guide™ software (optional)
The new Garmin Travel Guide is loaded with information provided by
Marco Polo. These guides put in-depth travel informationsuch as
reviews and recommendations for restaurants, tourist attractions,
and moreat the users fingertips.
Travelers can use the nüvi to navigate to an address or search
points of interest (POIs)places like hotels, restaurants,
shopping, and tourist attractions. The nüvi automatically
calculates the fastest route and provides voice-prompted
turn-by-turn directions along the way. Thanks to the nüvis
text-to-speech functionality, the unit audibly announces the name
of upcoming streetsletting drivers keep their eyes on the road
while navigating through busy traffic and tricky roadways. If
users stray off course, the nüvi automatically calculates the
quickest way to get back on track.
Traffic
The nüvi even provides traffic alerts (in select cities) when used
with a compatible traffic receiver. By adding traffic services and
a receiver to your nüvi, you can avoid traffic tie-ups by simply
pushing a button to calculate a new route.
The nüvi also supports custom points of interest (POIs) and
configurable vehicle icons fun, customized car-shaped icons in a
variety of colors that show your position on the map.
The nüvi 350's unique "text-to-speech" feature calls out turns by
street name. In addition, this text-to-speech interface, gives
users the spoken pronunciation of each entry in the word bankalong
with gender and part-of-speech information.
The nüvi 350 also comes with an A/C charger and approximately 700
MBs of internal memory for storage of supplemental maps, MP3s, and
audio books (available from Audible.com).
nüvi Features:
- Receiver: high-sensitivity WAAS-capable GPS receiver by SiRF
- Display: 2.8 W x 2.1 H (3.5 diag.), 320 x 240 pixels;
bright, TFT display, 64K colors, with white backlight and touch
screen
- Unit dimensions: 3.87" W x 2.91" H x 0.87" D (98.3 mm x 73.9
mm x 22.1 mm)
- Weight: 5.1 ounces (144.6 grams)
- Battery: built-in lithium ion battery between 4-8 hours of
battery life depending on use
- Supports FM TMC traffic alerting
- Includes Garmin Lock&252;, an anti-theft feature
- Voice announces streets by name (nüvi 350 only)
- Preloaded maps for all of North America or Europe (nüvi
350);
- Fingertip touch-screen interface
- Look up addresses and points of interest
- Choose 2D or 3D map perspective
- Upload custom POIs, including alerts for speed zones and
safety cams with POI Loader
- Built in Travel Kit includes MP3 player with sample MPs,
audio books, picture viewer, world clock, currency and
measurement converters, calculator and more
- Add optional software such as Travel and Language Guides to
personalize nüvi
- SD memory card expansion slot
- USB interface for loading data
*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.
Please note: Like most USB Mass Storage Devices, the nüvi is not
compatible with Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me.
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