Friday, November 21, 2008

Choosing a Side-Kick for Your Car: The Garmin Nuvi

By Joseph Aaron

The Garmin Nuvi 350 Personal Travel Assistant is a steal at under four hundred dollars. The product is pre-loaded with maps of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico. The Nuvi 350 also speaks in a wonderfully easy to follow way, giving you understandable instructions as you travel.

What You Get

When you buy the Garmin Nuvi 350, you even get a great-looking piece of technology which is easy to carry with you either on foot or when driving. The product comes equipped with detachable suction cups to easily attach to a surface in your truck.

You can pre-charge your Garmin Nuvi 350 Personal Travel Assistant by using either a cigarette lighter adaptor or a standard plug-in adaptor at home. Both adaptors will be contained in the package when you get the product. Additionally, you will receive a user's instruction booklet to give you the information you need to use the features of the Nuvi 350.

Features

The Nuvi 350 has a number of features that make it helpful to any traveler. The item itself was made to remain where you put it even when the car goes over rugged roads; it manages this by using a ball-and-socket structure. The item also comes equipped with an MP3 player so you can enjoy music even when you are out walking with your Nuvi 350.

The maps are also updateable, although it will cost you a little extra any time you update your maps. New maps are released several times each year and you merely have to get new maps for your personal Nuvi 350 when you have a reason.

Travel Kit

The travel kit that will already be on the Garmin Nuvi 350 Personal Travel Assistant is a fun feature. You can may utilize the Travel Kit to hunt down your photos and MP3 songs, and to access any of your other travel guides. These travel guides are available for purchase for a huge selection of other countries and can be put into service when you are on vacation. A number of the guides will run you less than eighty dollars, although the fees might be different depending on which travel guide you decide to purchase.

Additional Features

The Garmin Nuvi 350 Personal Travel Assistant also offers a couple of extra features, encompassing instant traffic information for cities and a huge amount of information on the most popular spots in the cities to which you travel. The traffic updater does require the purchase of more software, but it is a great time-saver when you have to avoid the five o'clock rush.

The Garmin Nuvi 350 also makes use of street names as it gives directions, rather than using feet or miles. This is a much better way to be confident about where you are headed even if you are visiting a new city. You can work out your routes, adjust your routes, and add rest stops to your route with very little trouble due to a touch screen.

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