Garmin GPS Navigator
Garmin GPS Navigator devices are high-quality navigation units, and can be used in cars, boats and airplanes.
All GPS navigation devices in the Global Positioning System (GPS) rely on ground stations with links to satellites, and provide a world-wideradio navigation system.
With a Garmin GPS Navigator in your car or boat you will always know exactly where you are, and you will always be able to get to your next destination without losing your way.
The Garmin GPS devices have touchscreen control and will provide turn-by-turn voice directions to your destination.
Before you start your journey you simply use the touchscreen to input your destination, and the built-in map system will instantly find the best route. It's that easy to use your car GPS!
Look at your Garmin GPS as a StreetPilot that will lead you to your destination.
Garmin GPS Navigator Customer Reviews (for Car GPS, GPS Navigation and StreetPilot)
"I was recently looking to purchase a GPS unit and I had resigned myself to spending approximately $800.
The obvious choices presented to me were the Garmin Nuvi 350 and the TomTom 910. For use in the USA, both machines are essentially equally equipped, with large, bright color touch screens and pre-loaded maps.
The TomTom also includes maps of Europe, but as I don't intend to travel there anytime soon, this was not a compelling selling feature.
I spent a bit of time in the store using both devices side-by-side.
I entered identical destinations and observed how many keystrokes it took to get the machines to recognize the address.
The Garmin Nuvi, with a very refined user interface, took significantly fewer keystrokes in most cases. Since the Nuvi allows you to enter the state first, the machine can pinpoint your destination city much more quickly than the TomTom, which requires that you enter the city before the state.
As such, you are presented with a (sometimes) very long list of matching cities, which you then must scroll through to find the correct one.
Consider, for example, a city name like "Springfield." Once you manage to key in enough characters that the machine can guess the name, it presents you with a list of Springfields, one for each state!
There are a lot of Springfields in the US, so you end up wasting considerably time clicking past the ones you don't want".
UPDATE: After a 1300 mile road trip to Virginia, I am still extremely pleased with the Garmin Nuvi 350.
Even gravel side roads off the Blue Ridge Parkway were accurately labeled and present in the map data!
No matter where we were, a few taps on the screen brought up a list of nearby restaurants (marked with arrows so you can choose only ones that don't require a U-turn!) or stores.
Also, do not underestimate the utility of having a portable, battery-powered device while walking around unfamiliar cities and towns. It's a huge help.
In short, this device is a joy to use.
Garmin also plan to release Macintosh compatible software in the next several months (according to press releases on their Web site) so that we Mac users will be able to keep our Nuvi's accurate in the future.
D.W. MD (Review of Garmin nuvi 350)