Garmin nuvi 350

Most reviews of the Garmin nüvi 350 are from the first quarter of 2006, when the product was new. At that time, reviewers saw it as a state-of-the-art device with a stratospheric price; neither is true anymore, making the nüvi 350 a good value today. GPSMagazine.com had the best original review, and revisited the nüvi 350 in August of 2007. Reviewer "Fletch" tests the nüvi 350's routing head-to-head against TomTom and Magellan units. Other reviews are relatively pedestrian; we list the best of those below. As for owner-written reviews, Amazon.com has the best collection, with more than 2,100 write-ups for this auto GPS unit.

The Garmin nüvi 350 was the top-rated GPS unit by many reviewers in early 2006, although some criticized it as too expensive. The street price has dropped nearly 80 percent, but newer and better units have been introduced since then. Reviewers now see the nüvi 350 as the best entry-level unit with the critical text-to-speech feature (which announces actual street names). Experts often recommended it instead of the stripped-down Garmin nüvi 250 (*est. $180) and nüvi 260 (*est. $220), which both cost nearly as much as the nüvi 350 but lack several of its features, including traffic and MP3 playback.