Product Description

The Ultimate Travel Companion - The nüvi 300 is a portable GPS navigator, traveler's reference, and digital entertainment system, all in one.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3050 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Garmin
• Model: Nuvi 300
• Released on: 2005-11-25
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .32 pounds

Features

• QVGA color antiglare TFT screen with white backlight
• POI lookup and MP3/audio book playback
• sleek, slim design only 5.1 ounces, up to 8 hour battery life
• Pre-loaded with UK, Ireland mapping
• Compatible with RoadTour Heritage and Pubs & Inns

Manufacturers Description

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.

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Customer Reviews

A+
Can't fault this! Easy to use, quick to set up. First satnav I've had so nothing to compare with but can't honestly see how it could be improved on! Even recalculates the route, without asking, when I took the wrong turning. Great. Even has the main roads, towns in Europe...... you have to buy an extra SD card if you want the street details in European countries.

Is the Nuvi 300 Mac OSX compatible?
In case it helps anyone considering purchasing a Nuvi 300 - they have a Mac specific support section, specific Mac firmware and map update routines as well as full support for a number of other web/mapping utilities - which in my experience worked first time, error free.

... it's also a great little GPS.

Absolutely superb
This was my first sat-nav and I have absolutely no regrets about buying it. It's ridiculously easy to use, with a clear display and excellent voice instructions which are perfectly audible even in an open-topped car! It's also a convenient size for slipping into a jacket pocket when you leave the car for a even a few minutes.

With regard to the "problems" that have been mentioned elsewhere - there have been occasions when it's taken some time to get a signal, but those occasions have been very few and far between. On the subject of routing errors, I have yet to find a sat-nav that doesn't have them! Any sat-nav is an AID, not a substitute for a brain! If the sat-nav tells me that I'm driving across a field because it doesn't recognise a new road, I've found that simply looking through the windscreen helps to clarify the situation! If it tries to send me up a muddy track, I know I'm on the wrong road ... but I just take a detour, the Garmin will get me where I want to go.

All in all, a superb piece of kit.