Garmin nüvi 350 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator

I recently started working in an area I am less familiar with and this has been really helpful. Not only do I get lost far less often, it is helping me learn the area safely. The screen barely takes up any room, the unit is easily recharged, and the voice volume adjustment is wonderful. I got an amazing deal on Amazon; I would not pay full retail. My only hesitation in recommending it to others is that garmin nuvi will come out imminently with incl traffic monitoring, which this does not have and would be a strong added feature.

I have had my Garmin nuvi 350 about 6 weeks now, and have found it to be very easy to use! I am a salesman who travels to unknown destinations regularly, and thusfar have had only one address that the unit didn't recognize (a brand new neighborhood - even Mapquest didn't register this address). The screen is very easy to read (even at night) and I love the text-to-voice feature...making it almost uneccessary to look at the screen. I debated over getting the wider screen model, but now I am glad I didn't as this unit is more than 30% less expensive. For a price well under $200, you can't go wrong with this one.

I have used another brand, but I like this model better.
It works well and clearly provides street names before you get to them and when you need to turn. The only negative is that it took a while to find the satellites, so plan to give it a few minutes to do this. Otherwise, I was very pleased with it. I especially like the take me home feature.

I bought this unit as an upgrade because I own a Tom Tom 1 and it is a basic unit from Tom Tom and mine has a battery problem.The Nuvi is a better unit but not that much better for the additional money spent.The unit doesn't call out street names and is slow to aquire your current position if you have moved from where you last used it.Over all it does work well and you get what you pay for.It is a step up in proformance from the Tom Tom that I Had.I would buy the next model up from this if given the chance to do it over.

My device has some major problems acquiring satellites and directing me to some locations. I have been testing it in and around Southern New England (Central Connecticut, Central Mass.) and have had some significant problems. In one instance, for example, it could not find Auburn, Mass. -- a 16,000-person suburb of New England's second-largest city (Worcester) which is a main access site for the Mass. Turnpike. In addition, it sometimes takes 15 minutes or more -- and the occasional restart -- to acquire satellites in and around Hartford, Connecticut. I am not yet at the point where I feel comfortable relying solely on this GPS to get me somewhere, although once it's working it does seem -- usually -- to send me the right way.