Garmin nüvi 360 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Bluetooth and Text-to-Speech | List Price: $279.99
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Brand: Garmin
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: Garmin nüvi products purchased through Troy Ford will receive a full 3-Year Warranty. This is a FULL 2-Years longer than the warranty a consumer would receive, if a similar product was purchased through a consumer retailer.
Features: - Bluetooth wireless technology, built-in microphone, and speaker for hands-free calls with compatible phones
- MP3 player with pre-loaded sample songs and audio books, JPEG picture viewer, travel alarm, and currency converters
- 2D or 3D views; pre-loaded with most recent Navteq-driven maps for United States, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Canada
- Turn-by-turn directions with actual street names; real-time traffic and weather info
- Super-bright 2.8 x 2.1-inch sunlight-readable color screen
Garmin Nuvi 360 [Posted on 2008-08-29]
Great product, I had a Nuvi 350 before and it had issues. It was stolen so I replaced with this one, the 360. Much better and much faster at locating satellites. Also not as many issues with the keyboard. I would highly recommend this to anyone that travels often.
Never works when needed [Posted on 2008-08-30]
My Garmin Nuvi was working fine for an year and stopped acquiring the satellites whenever I want to use it. I upgraded the software to 4.7 and it started showing wrong time. It neither shows the maps nor does not show time. Waste of money.
Great functionality, poor support [Posted on 2008-08-30]
I purchased a Garmin Nuvi 360 from Amazon in March 2007 and my wife and I have used it extensively for a year and a half. I have tried other GPS devices such as a Loox which I purchased for our second car. I would say that the Garmin is about the best unit out there in terms of its ease of use and functionality. It's easy to find addresses and points of interest, the speaking feature works pretty well (less a few mispronunciations here and there), and it has pretty good battery life.
As others have mentioned, the Bluetooth speakerphone feature is overrated and I would advise skipping it unless you have a compelling need. It's handy for dialing up a business such as a restaurant while you're navigating there (assuming you own a bluetooth phone), but honestly how often do you need to do that? Maybe it's good for a restaurant reviewer who eats out seven days a week. Plus, I have found that my cell phone's speaker is clearer than that of the Nuvi 360.
Now when it comes to updating the maps, you will need to pay Garmin $60. I consider this a rather steep price and I think they should charge more like $20. Furthermore, and more serious than that, is the infamous power switch problem. If you search on the web for "Garmin Nuvi power switch" you will discover a lot of irate Garmin owners with units that won't power on because of stiff power switches. Apparently it's a design defect. When our power switch started getting hard to use, I emailed customer support and was told that it would cost $199 to repair it (no, I'm not kidding) because it was out of warranty. When I wrote back and informed them that this appeared to be a common problem, and so maybe they could consider it a warranty repair, they wrote back and said no.
Now, for $199 you can buy a comparable GPS (we paid over $400 for this unit way back when). Obviously I wasn't about to send them this kind of money to fix a factory defect. Words to the wise--unless Garmin has fixed this problem, I would consider some of the alternatives.
Garmin Nuvi 360 GPS [Posted on 2008-08-31]
Great! Love the text-to-speech feature. Compact; fits in my purse. Works unplugged long enough for most trips. I just sit it on the dash or console. Get one!
cryptic instructions, where is cust support? [Posted on 2008-08-31]
Had my Garmin 360 a couple weeks, and the suction cup keeps falling off the windshield, dumping the whole thing on the floor. So I decided to go to the Garmin web site to see if I can get a new suction cup. Somehow I end up downloading a new map.
Well, thats fine - I'd like the latest map. So, about an hour later (totally tying up my PC) it's downloaded and ready to install the update. Now the install window is asking for my product code that comes with the "Install disk". I don't know what they mean by the "install disk", there was no such disk - there is a CD with the owner's manual - but it has no "product code" on it. What is the stupid "product code"? All I find in the plethora of paper that came with this unit is a serial number, a registration code, and an unlock code. None of these worked in the update install. This is very frustrating and I can't find a number for customer support.
Anyway, hence the 2 stars.
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