Product Description

Navigator. Translator. Entertainer. Tour Guide. Garmin?s nuvi? 310 Deluxe is one versatile, and well-equipped, little GPS. This pocket-sized Personal Travel Assistant now comes with UK and Ireland Maps pre-installed, plus European mapping on CD and a Garmin GTM 12 TMC Traffic Module with a life-time subscription to Traffic Master ? making it the go-anywhere travel companion. Place hands-free calls with Bluetooth wireless technology The nuvi 310 Deluxe integrates wireless technology with a microphone and speaker that lets you make hands-free mobile phone calls. Simply dial numbers with the nuvi's touch screen keypad to make a call on a compatible Bluetooth phone. To answer calls, just tap nuvi's screen and speak directly into its built in microphone. In addition, easily look-up and dial numbers from your personalized phone book or from your phone?s call history log. Don?t know the phone number for your destination? Simply find and dial it from nuvi's extensive points of interest database ? including hotels, restaurants, stores, and attractions. Navigate with Ease The nuvi 310 Deluxe comes pre-programmed with UK & Ireland map data, and includes automatic routing, 2D or 3D map perspective, and a fingertip touch screen interface ? making navigation easy. Travelling abroad? The nuvi 310 Deluxe is supplied with Garmin?s City Navigator NT Europe on CD, simply install the country map on to a SD card (not supplied) and you?re ready to go! The nuvi also accepts customized points of interest (POIs) such as school zones and safety cameras. In addition, with the supplied Garmin GTM 12 FM TMC traffic receiver, you can avoid traffic tie-ups by simply pushing a button to calculate a new route. Enjoy Travel Kit full of entertainment and useful tools Navigation is just the beginning. nuvi includes many ?must have? entertainment and travel tools including MP3 player, audio book player, JPEG picture viewer, travel alarm, curr

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28364 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Garmin
• Model: nuiv310D
• Released on: 2007-08-23

Features

• 3.5" touch screen display
• Full UK and European street level mapping ; Full Postcode search
• Fully portable ; Transferrable from car to car ; MP3 Player ; Audio book player
• Unique theft prevention system "Garmin Lock"
• Handsfree calling via Bluetooth® ; Travel Alarm ; Super slim design

Customer Reviews

Smallest load of rubbish ever
Purchased a 310t November 2006,after trying both a Garmin & a Tom Tom previously. Used it on 3 occasions, twice to London & once touring Germany in December 2007. That trip was the death knell for the machine as it siezed up and died next tine we came to use it Jan 2008. Contacted Garmin UK customer service (The name customer & service do not seem to sit well together with Garmin)to be told it would cost OVER ONE HUNDRED POUNDS to look at a 15 month old machine.This sat nav is about as good as the football team they sponser, very average trying to be better than they are.The machine worked well when abroad except it did not reconise Belgium ??

Disapointed with Garmin Nuvi 310D
I bought a Garmin Nuvi 310D 18 months ago. It worked fine until a couple of weeks ago when it lost its satellite signal. After several phone calls to Garmin and 2 letters the only solution is a repair/replacement at a cost of £101.00. Bearing in mind I paid £260 in the first place this seems OTT for only 18 months of limited use!

Looks good - but that's pretty much it
I bought the Nuvi about a year ago having had TomTom on a Palm Pilot. I was attracted by the all-in-one aspect of the Nuvi and also the design. I found it frustrating to use for a few reasons:

1.) The turn instructions come far too soon - sometimes when there is another turning between you and the one it really wants you to take. This means that I have to look at the unit to double check which turn to take. I never had to do that with the TomTom. The acid test was the Peripherique around Paris - got round it seamlessly with the TomTom, but took wrong turnings all over the place with the Nuvi.

2.) There are POIs built in for shops and so on, but I can't see a way of updating them.

3.) The mapsource desktop software is in dire need of an update - it seems to be a generic tool for all of their GPS units. It is really hard to work out what to do. I updated the Nuvi for maps of Northern France an as soon as we were 20km into France it switched to a really low granularity of roads - only showing the major ones. It was an attempt to fix this last night using MapSource that made me..

... come to Amazon to buy a new TomTom.

P.S. TMC is terrible too.