Monday, April 9, 2007

Garmin nuvi 360

The Garmin Nuvi 350 GPS


Navigator. Translator. Entertainer. Tour Guide. Garmins nuvi 360 is one versatile little GPS. This pocket-sized Personal Travel Assistant now comes with hands-free Bluetooth wireless technology in addition to the popular features offered in the nuvi350 making it the go-anywhere travel companion.


Place hands-free calls with Bluetooth wireless technology

The nuvi 360 along with its counterpart the nuvi 310 GPS integrate wireless technology with a microphone and speaker that lets you make hands-free mobile phone calls. Simply dial numbers with the nuvi's touch screen keypad to make a call on a compatible Bluetooth phone. To answer calls, just tap nvi's screen and speak directly into its built in microphone.

In addition, easily look-up and dial numbers from your personalized phone book or from your phones call history log. Dont know the phone number for your destination? Simply find and dial it from nuvi's extensive points of interest database including hotels, restaurants, stores, and attractions.

Navigate with Ease

The nuvi360 comes with preloaded maps of Europe or North America, and includes automatic routing, 2D or 3D map perspective, turn-by-turn voice directions that speak street names, and a fingertip touch screen interface, making navigation easy. It also supports configurable vehicle icons fun, customized car-shaped icons in a variety of colors that show your position on the map.


The nuvi accepts customized points of interest (POIs) such as school zones and safety cameras. It even provides traffic alerts (in select cities) when used with a compatible traffic receiver. By adding traffic services and a receiver to your nuvi310, you can avoid traffic tie-ups by simply pushing a button to calculate a new route.


Enjoy Travel Kit full of entertainment and useful tools

Navigation is just the beginning. nuvi includes many must have entertainment and travel tools including MP3 player, audio book player with optional content from Audible.com, JPEG picture viewer, travel alarm, currency converters, and more. In addition, optional software packages such as the Language Guide and Travel Guides can be added for language and content support.

Customize with Optional Software

Optional software available on plug-in SD cards, lets you instantly add new features to your nuvi without connecting to your computer.


  • Language Guide contains five bilingual dictionaries and a multilingual word bank and phrase bank that support nine languages and dialects. Even get a spoken pronunciation of each word or phrase

  • Travel Guide gives you helpful and thorough reviews and recommendations for restaurants, hotels, shopping, nightlife, sporting events and tourist attractions. Travel Guide for Europe currently available for purchase. Travel Guide for United States coming soon.

  • Savers Guide a geo-coded coupon book that notifies you of nearby discounts on restaurants, hotels, shopping, and more at thousands of participating Entertainment businesses throughout North America

Nuvi 360 GPS 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
  • Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free calling
  • Supports FM TMC traffic alerting
  • Includes Garmin Lock, an anti-theft feature
  • Voice announces streets by name
  • Preloaded maps for all of North America or Europe
  • 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 nvi
  • SD memory card expansion slot
  • USB interface for loading data

Please note: Like most USB Mass Storage Devices, the nuvi is not compatible
with Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Me.

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