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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. |