nuvi 350 GPS Portable Navigation System
Introducing the nüvi: A versatile travel assistant that's approximately the size of a deck of playing cards. The nüvi is a portable GPS navigator, traveler's 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 control-making 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. 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 nüvi's text-to-speech functionality, the unit audibly announces the name of upcoming streets-letting 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 configurable vehicle icons - fun, customized car-shaped icons in a variety of colors that show your position on the map. nüvi 350 North American versions include pre-loaded City Navigator NT maps of the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico. 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 bank-along 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 Battery: built-in lithium ion battery - between 4-8 hours of battery life depending on use Supports FM TMC traffic alerting 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 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