Product Description

Ultimate Travel Companion - The nüvi 300 is a portable GPS navigator, traveler's reference, and digital entertainment system, all in one. Combined with detailed maps, the nüvi provides automatic routing (UK and Ireland pre-loaded), turn-by-turn voice directions, and finger-touchscreen controlmaking it easy to find your way anywhere. The nüvi 300 also offers a travel kit of useful travel tools to help keep any journey fun: MP3 player, audio book player from Audible.co.uk, 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.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, us can get a spoken pronunciation of each entry in the word bankalong with gender and part of speech information (nüvi 350 only).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. If users stray off course, the nüvi automatically calculates the quickest way to get back on track.The nüvi is compatible with the GTM 10 and GTM12 FM TMC traffic receiver, which allows users to avoid traffic tie-ups

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65016 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Garmin
• Model: 010-00455-26
• Released on: 2007-04-09

Manufacturer's Description

nüvi 300T Your personal travel assistant. Pre-loaded European street maps. 3.5” sunlight readable touch screen display. Pre-installed Cyclops safety camera data Accurate & comprehensive safety camera database from Cyclops. You can download safety camera updates daily to have the most current information available. You will be alerted when approaching traffic cameras, helping you to keep within the speed limit and avoid accident blackspots. Garmin Lock™ theft prevention Disables the Garmin until a PIN is entered or taken to a predetermined location. Traffic Receiver to avoid traffic jams The receiver comes with lifetime subscription to the Traffic Message Channel, it picks up data from it and transfers the latest updates to your Garmin. Your Garmin will then alert you about traffic problems on your route and propose alternatives. Points of interest database Preloaded hefty points of interest (POIs) database with hotels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more with ability to add customized POIs such as school zones and safety cameras. You can then set proximity. Travel Kit with MP3 and Picture Viewer Nüvi 300 incorporates many "must have" entertainment and travel tools including MP3 player or audio book player. Go beyond the navigation and make the most of your nüvi with picture viewer and currency and measurement converters. Re-chargeable li-ion battery - up to 8 hours life. Turn-by-turn guidence with voice prompts.

European Mapping Touch Screen Traffic Safety Cameras Points of Interest Voice Guidence Travel Kit

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Customer Reviews

Fantastic value
Just bought this and have been truly impressed by its abilities. The navigation works well and all routes so far are exactly as I would have driven them, reroutes are processed quickly. The traffic information is also really useful and works well, though of course you must realise it works on a quiet fm frequency so it may not update immediately until in range. (see Traffic Master coverage. eg no use in Lake District).

I have even tested it flying back from Stockholm at 36000' in my A320, and although it could not follow the roads at 500mph (Europe main roads only) it did keep up with an accurate map, speed and altitude (in metres)!! So impessive my Dad immediately just bought one too.

Buy a Tom tom instead!
I bought this unit 5 weeks ago and have just had a full refund on it and ordered a Tom Tom.
The Nuvi is a great compact unit, which guides you well and is fast to find a signal. There are lots of extras like downloadable books, Mp3, photos, language guide, if you want these. 1 Gb memory, half being free. Sd slot if you need more.
Sadly, there are known problems with the TMC receivers, ie they don't work, but garmin won't seem to do anything about it. Mine did not even look for a signal, and you can't manually search (unlike Tom Tom). Forums are full of complaints about this. I drove on stretches of motorway I know other people pick up signals on, and mine wouldn't even search!
Garmins webupdater software is also full of bugs and often doesn't recognise your unit, mine did twice then just stopped and said it wasn't there, even though I could transfer music and photos to it via My computer, and update the speed cameras via Garmin website!
Finally I had to snap with all my might to get the unit out of the windscreen mount, this was a bit scary as I kept thinking it would snap!
Garmin offered to fix the unit only if I paid postage back and they kept it for 4 weeks! Amazon offered to pay postage and give a full refund!
If you want just the Sat Nav, it would probably be a good buy, if you want traffic don't bother! If you want customer service go elsewhere too!

great bit of kit
Really good bit of kit. Easy to use, easy to set up. I bought this Garmin on recommendations from two of my friends, I've been using it several weeks now, over several long journeys and I've not had any problems with being taken down small lanes (see above review) - in fact I wouldn't want to be without it any more!