 Manufacturer : Garmin Model : 010-00902-12 ASIN : B00407237C Price : 169.99$ See Special Offers   Product DescriptionGarmin nuvi 2350 Automobile Portable Navigator 010-00902-12 Automobile NavigatorsAmazon.com Product Description The widescreen nüvi 2350 includes maps for the U.S., Canada and Mexico and features lane assist with junction view*, trafficTrends historical traffic, myTrends predictive routing, and ecoRoute to help calculate a more fuel-efficient route. Pedestrian capabilities can be enhanced with optional cityXplorer maps for mass transit information.
Experience nüRoute Technology with trafficTrends and myTrends Select Fuel-efficient Routes
Know the Lane Before It's Too Late See More Navigate City Transit Get Turn-by-Turn Directions Go Beyond Navigation *Not available at all intersections/interchanges in all areas. Compare the nüvi 2300 Series Features
What's in the Box  357 of 369 people found the following review helpful: Solid device but watch out for advertisement financed lifetime traffic updates Setup and navigation is good. We like the big screen and the way the information is provided. The lifetime map updates sounds like a great feature. Maps can be updated four times a year and the access using the web page was easy. But I have to wonder what Garmin considers "useful life" of the device. But even if they are only available for three years, then it is still cheaper than buying the maps. The conditions of lifetime traffic updates are definitely not what I expected and the reason that I am thinking of returning the device. The ads that finance the lifetime traffic pop up on the screen and disrupt the navigation. This is obnoxious! This should be mentioned in the product description! I couldn't even find information about the ad financed traffic on the Garmin web page! 226 of 234 people found the following review helpful: 2360LMT: Useful voice/traffic functions; advertisements are BACK! (update) >> I've written a rather long review for the 2360LMT, so these first 5 paragraphs are a quick summary. Note that Amazon has lumped the various 2350 & 2370 models into the same bucket of reviews, which have slightly different features. >> 1 ** THE UNIT WORKS AS INTENDED and is great with basic navigation, but there are some rough spots with some of the bonus features, and sparse documentation. Build quality is typical of older Garmin units -- solid, not particularly svelte. The touch screen is fine for entering letters and tapping the "OK" button, but the "drag" function when scrolling the map around with my fingertip is inconsistent and requires heavier than normal finger pressure. >> 2 ** VOICE RECOGNITION works very well, but it's slow on the uptake and not perfect -- so expect to repeat yourself often. At each step it guides you with a voice prompt, or you can turn voice prompts off and follow prompts on the screen for faster entries. Speaking street addresses is surprisingly accurate; voice-navigating the menu not so smooth. >> 3 ** THE JUNCTION VIEW screen has been "fixed" with the latest device software: it displays representations of freeway junctions and off-ramps side-by-side with the map to help pick the proper lane. The LANE ASSIST function can be a help, but simultaneously may lead to confusion at complicated freeway junctions. ROUTE RECALCULATIONS could be faster, but processor speed and animation overall is fast and smooth. >> 4 ** DISPLAY is adequately bright except in very bright sunlight, and the screen is just reflective enough to pose viewing issues unless adjusted precisely. VOLUME is more than adequate, and can be adjusted/muted by voice command. The TRAFFIC feature seems to work OK, though not as good as Google traffic on my BlackBerry, and it doesn't make it clear when my route is being re-drawn due to an accident or congestion. ADVERTISEMENTS seem to have been eliminated with the latest software updates. (And just like that, as of 10/20/11, the ads are back! No idea what happened -- didn't update the unit software or do anything out of the ordinary. *sigh*) >> 5 ** OVERALL, I recommend this unit. Despite the frustrations I detail below, it offers the most usable features, with little fluff, for a very good price. Don't expect perfection, but do expect a very capable GPS with consistent lifetime traffic and a voice recognition system that makes **some** data entry / navigation tasks easier than on touch-screen nav units. >> So with that summary out of the way, on with my review... I've used a narrow-screen Garmin 200 for the past few years, as well as Google Maps on my BlackBerry Storm. I hesitated purchasing a new GPS because between the two of those devices, I was pretty well covered to get anywhere I needed to go. But the 2360LMT came along and I couldn't ignore the list of "extra" features it packed in for the price. And let's face it: A cell phone is great for finding stuff, but not actually navigating while driving, and the old nuvi 200 lacked voice recognition, which I considered a significant safety compromise as well as an input hassle. Initial power-on / boot-up went smoothly with just a couple of "Accept" screens and reminders to register the product with Garmin. No additional setup steps were required, though it took a few minutes for my initial position fix to be calculated. After that, position fix occurs imperceptibly, even when I power the unit on in a city miles away from where I turned it off. However, boot-up takes about 35 seconds to where the device is ready to receive input, and that feels like an eternity when I want to get navigating. Build Quality & Screen: the 2360LMT isn't "razor thin" like some of the recent, more expensive Garmin lineup. It's not much thinner than my old 200. The screen is reasonably bright, decent resolution, and wide. Brightness can be adjusted with voice commands while driving. If I have sunlight shining on a light colored shirt, the screen tends to reflect that back at me, but can be minimized with very precisely adjusting the tilt of the unit. The animation is smooth, less jerky than my old unit, and the zoom level "flies in" and out depending on vehicle speed & location relative to upcoming turns. It's a very fluid presentation, and Garmin has nicely tweaked the auto-zoom settings in their latest software updates. One gig on the animation is in an instance when the unit expects me to turn left, but I choose to continue straight ahead, the map follows the predicted route through the turn, then recognizes I've continued straight, so quickly corrects back. If I were at a complex 6-way intersection or round-about in a residential neighborhood, this feature might mistakenly lead me to think that I had turned to the correct street, and I'd prefer it to not use this predictive positioning feature. The display colors darken automatically at dusk and, surprisingly, darken when I enter the long Caldecott tunnel near my home, even though the tunnel itself isn't depicted on the map. The daytime backlight brightness is stored independently of the nighttime brightness, so when I set it at 100% at noon and 10% at night, it stores both of those settings. Portrait Mode: the unit has an orientation sensor, so can be used in portrait mode, which is a nice change on long, straight stretches of freeway to "see" off in the distance. The unit takes advantage of portrait mode by automatically zooming back the display a notch, and adjusting the viewing angle at which it looks ahead, to maximize the view towards the horizon. However, for navigating around town where I'm making turns, I prefer the standard landscape mode, where side streets are more readily visible. Touch Screen Sensitivity: not so hot. Finger taps register fine, but scrolling/"dragging" the map around, for instance on the "show traffic" overview map display, is frustratingly slow. It requires a unusually heavy finger press, not at all like my old nuvi 200. The map doesn't always move, or moves in the wrong direction, or "snaps back" to its previous location when I lift my finger. Voice Recognition: pretty impressive, yet frustrating. Thankfully, this feature has prevented me from having to use the touch screen much. I say "Voice Command" and the unit pops up a list of commands I can say, such as "find address" or "search by name." I say "Pegasus" and (on the second try; 1st try got me "Recruiters") it confirms, "1. Pegasus?" I say "yes" or "one" and it searches and quickly finds "Pegasus Cycle Works" in Danville. I say "Navigate!" and it plots a route. Very clean. Likewise, I say "find address" and it asks, "what city in California?" I say "Hayward" and after multiple tries getting that one right (kept wanting to send me to Orange and Onida), it asks for the house number. I don't have to draw out "Four... Two... Six... Eight" and wait for each digit; no, I say "forty-two sixty-eight" and it throws the whole address up on the screen pretty quickly. Again, very clean, and almost always accurate. Alternatively, I can say "spell city" and then spell it out, letter by letter. However, unlike with the typed-in entries, using voice commands I've found no way to skip the city and go straight to the street address. The downsides? Besides having trouble recognizing some names, there are some other rough spots: When each prompt is spoken -- for instance, "*Boing* What city in California?" I have to pause a beat before I speak the city (there is a "lips" icon in the upper right corner; it turns red when the unit is speaking to me or processing my verbal command, then turns green when it's ready to listen for my command, which takes about a second after it finishes its question). I'd prefer the *Boing* come at the end of the prompt, as soon as it's ready to listen. Alternatively, the volume can be muted to turn off voice prompts, or, as Amazon member maffeo pointed out in the comments to this review, there is an "expert mode" (Tools > Voice Commands > Wrench Icon) that turns off voice prompts (on-screen prompts only). Either method makes voice entry of addresses much faster, accurate and less frustrating. Using the Favorites list is not well integrated with the Voice Commands. Creating new Favorites from an address entered via voice requires me to back out to the menu, click on "Recently Found", select the location/address, navigate to it, click on the navigation screen to display the overhead map, then select the sidebar menu to bring up the Save prompt. Not intuitive at all, and requires me to begin navigation TWICE to a destination just in order to save it as a favorite. This process could be much more refined to make it easier to program favorites into the unit while killing time. Also, selecting a Favorite destination from the list using voice commands requires me to scroll through the list, two Favorites at a time (or, if I'm in portrait view, six Favorites at a time), until the destination appears. The Favorites are sorted in order of closest proximity, so when I want directions to Auntie Ginger's house 35 miles away in San Jose, it'll be at the bottom of the list, and I have to scroll down to her entry -- on screen at a time -- before I can select it. This is majorly annoying: if the GPS can find every Home Depot within the bay area with a simple voice command, it should be able to pick out "Ginger" from a list of 1000 favorites! Grrrr... Meanwhile, I'm have to option to access... 57 of 60 people found the following review helpful: Garmin 2350 This one has advertizements and cupon offers that pop up in the middle of the screen and it appears that the only way to get them off so that you can see the map fully is to manually change the screen. If it werent for the commercials, this unit would rate 5 stars.  BE CAREFUL!!! No where in the item description did it say the item was anything but new. The box it came in said it was refurbished. by F. Dunn Lifetime maps and traffic! WORTH EVERY PENNY! My last Garmin nuvi was stolen from my car. I love the GPS but I needed to update the maps. THat update would have cost me about $60 to 80. No cheap at all. by Mark Never gonna be lost again! Bought this product knowing we would be making a couple of trips to new destinations and decided instead of following mapquest directions it would be fun to try out gps. by David C. Rawson Garmin nüvi 2350LMT 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic & Map Updates I purchased this GPS a month back from amazon. It is completely worth of its price. Still I am not sure it is calculating route based on traffic info but it is providing all... by Vipul Another great garmin... My new nuvi is mostly great. The database is better than ever, the lane indicator for an upcoming freeway change is awesome, and lots more useful info on the screen. by sas Third GPS Second Garmin. First unit I have owned with lifetime Maps. I love it for the price. I like the new feature where the car charger/traffic receiver plugs into the... by B. Goldberg Awesome gps This is a awesome gps. It's a smart ann in-time reminder when you need to enter or exit the highway. by SeanHellier Great price, works great! Great price, works great! Lifetime traffic and map updates are icing on the cake. Sized just right, routes are generally good. by Marion S. Apostol Nice and good deal I had read the reviews on this and was concerned as people talk about the pop up ads to counter the free Map updates for life. by Laurel J. Hendrickson Works Great The Garmin works great and with lifetime map loads I should not need to buy another GPS for many years. by tunamba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Monday, December 12, 2011
Garmin nüvi 2350 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
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