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The Ultimate Travel
Companion
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.
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 unit’s text-to-speech
interface (offered only on the nüvi 350), users can
get a spoken pronunciation of each entry in the word
bank—along 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
information—such as reviews and recommendations for
restaurants, tourist attractions, and more—at the
user’s fingertips.
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 custom points of interest
(POIs) and configurable vehicle icons — fun,
customized car-shaped icons in a variety of colors
that show your position on the map.
The nüvi comes in two configurations:
nüvi 300
This unit is sold exclusively in Europe. (Contact
your Garmin European distributor for pricing.)
Customers can purchase one of eight regional
coverage areas:
- Italy and Greece
- Switzerland, Austria, Eastern France, Northern
Italy, and Southern Germany
- Germany and Czech Republic
- U.K. and Ireland
- France
- Spain and Portugal
- Nordics
- Benelux
The nüvi 300 comes with approximately 200 MBs of
internal memory for storage of supplemental maps,
MP3s, and audio books (available from Audible.com)
nüvi 350
The European version contains full European mapping
right off the shelf. 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).
Garmin part number: 010-00455-00
For price and availability for the nüvi 300,
please contact your Garmin European distributor.
- nüvi 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
- Includes Garmin Lock™, an anti-theft feature
- Voice announces streets by name (nüvi 350
only)
- Preloaded maps for all of North America or
Europe (nüvi 350); preloaded maps for one
European region (nüvi 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 with
POI Loader
- 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
*Traffic services available only in select
cities where RDS-TMC coverage exists. Requires the
GTM 10 FM TMC traffic receiver and subscription
fee to enable traffic capability.
Please note: Like most USB Mass Storage
Devices, the nüvi is not compatible with Windows
95, Windows 98 or Windows Me.
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