Introducing the nvi: A versatile travel assistant thats approximately the size of a deck of playing cards.

The nuvi is a portable GPS navigator, travelers reference, and digital entertainment system, all in one. Combined with detailed maps, the nuvi provides automatic routing, turn-by-turn voice directions, and finger-touchscreen controlmaking it easy to find your way anywhere.

Travel Kit

The nuvi 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 nuvi 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 nuvi to navigate to an address or search points of interest (POIs)places like hotels, restaurants, shopping, and tourist attractions. The nuvi automatically calculates the fastest route and provides voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions along the way. Thanks to the nvis 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 nuvi automatically calculates the quickest way to get back on track.

Traffic

The nuvi even provides traffic alerts (in select cities) when used with a compatible traffic receiver. By adding traffic services and a receiver to your nvi, you can avoid traffic tie-ups by simply pushing a button to calculate a new route.

The nuvi also supports configurable vehicle icons fun, customized car-shaped icons in a variety of colors that show your position on the map.

nuvi 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
• Voice announces streets by name (nvi 350 only)
• Preloaded maps for all of North America or Europe (nvi 350); preloaded maps for one European region (nvi 310)
• 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

• Quick Reference Guide
• Mounting Bracket
• Power Cable
• PC/USB Cable
• Carry Case

Price : $499.99