September 12th, 2005
Garmin’s nuvi 350 “Personal Travel Assistant” Does it All
By Steve Johnson
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
This is not your father’s Garmin.
Enter their latest consumer gizmo, the “nuvi 350″. And get ready for the specs:
This new “Personal Travel Assistant™” combines a GPS navigator, language translator and travel guide capability, an MP3 player, an audio book player, a currency and measurement converter, a calculator, a world clock, and a digital photo viewer and organizer, all in a slim device. It even comes with a rubber suction cup for sticking to your car windshield.
Aside from its GPS capabilities, the nuvi provides users with a Travel Kit. An optional Garmin Language Guide™ with data provided by Oxford University Press, contains a language translator supporting up to nine languages and dialects, and allowing them translate up to 17,000 words or 20,000 phrases per language.
The Travel Kit also supports the new Garmin Travel Guide™ SD data cards, with information provided by Marco Polo. These guides give users reviews and recommendations of restaurants, hotels, shopping, tourist attractions and nightlife.
But when you’re stuck in a plane or train trying to pass the time away, the nuvi provides you with an Audio Book Player, with content provided from Audible.com, featuring more than 70,000 hours of audio programming from more than 200 content partners.
The MP3 player comes with sample music from AudioLunchBox.com. Songs can be loaded on to an SD card using “drag-n-drop” simplicity. The nuvi has a total of 700Mb of RAM, which is shared with the photo viewer, maps, and audio books.
The nuvi is about the size of a deck of playing cards, and boasts a 3.5-inch color touchscreen. There’s an SD card slot, mini-USB jack, headphone jack, and internal speaker. It’s flip-up GPS antenna also includes an external antenna jack.
Battery life on the nuvi runs about four to eight hours, depending on backlight settings and GPS or application usage. The unit comes with an AC power adapter and 12-volt power cable. The nuvi can also be powered by a PC/USB cable connected to a computer.
Garmin actually has two versions of the nuvi, the “nuvi 300″, available only in Europe, and the “nuvi 350″, available to US markets. The nuvi 350 will be available in November 2005, for a price of nearly $1,000.00. Source: Garmin
Alice says: nuvi is groovy. I want one now. If only it did email. but what’s with all the lowercase n - named products?
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
Garmin’s nuvi 350 “Personal Travel Assistant” Does it All
By Steve Johnson, Contributing Writer, RealTechNews This is not your father’s Garmin. Enter their latest consumer gizmo, the “nuvi 350.” And get ready for the specs: This new “Personal Travel Assistant” combines a GPS navigator, language translato…
September 12th, 2005 at 10:50 pm
Rick says:
But … does it say
DON’T PANIC
In large letters on the front????
I may just have to get one of those.
Rick
September 13th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
Alice says:
You can even translate Don’t panic into other languages.
I want one….
September 13th, 2005 at 2:09 pm
Gizmodo says:
Garmin’s Nuvi 250
This shall now be known as the “SuperGPSDA.” Garmin has decided to spring out from their cage and go for the PDA market. This nuvi has: GPS (who-da thunk it), language translator, travel guide, MP3 player, audio book player, currency…
September 14th, 2005 at 6:02 am
Daniel P says:
I’m an gizmo junkie owning 6 different GPS units (including 3 other Garmins) but I must admit that nuvi 350 is by far the best of the bunch. Garmin has truly delivered an outstanding product.
December 30th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
Discount Hotels Stayin Mike says:
Awesome tool! I need to get one of those. Now if I could only find a way to convince my wife that I need another of those gadgets in the car. Maybe I need to get lost more while looking for our discount hotels across town.
January 12th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Pat D says:
Does anyone know if downloads/updates can be performed on a mac?
February 15th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
Dave J says:
Like I’m going to be able to watch that thing on my windshield while I’m watching traffic, listening to the radio, talking to otheres in the car, drinking coffee and eating a doughnut??? Make it smaller - implant it in my brain - and wire me up spock. I’m a techo-junkie but this is too much. And, for a $1,000 I can by my wife some pretty nice flowers too.
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