Garmin nüvi 360 3.5-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Text-To-Speech

You can see all of the extensive, hyperdetailed reviews. I won't write another one of those.

What I will say is that I received my Nuvi 360 yesterday, and I love it already. The design is excellent and the UI is terrific, even (especially?) for someone like yours truly who has very little patience for user manuals.

My initial hesitation about buying a GPS unit was something along the lines of "I know where I'm going around here. And I have a road atlas when I don't." What I wasn't anticipating was how much my love of maps and topology and points of interest in the world around me would be fed by a GPS unit. I have always loved staring at maps and following roads and learning names of mountains, parks, wilderness areas, and so on. My grandfather apparently had the same fascination. For example, I have driven by one particular section of Seattle hundreds if not thousands of times. I had no idea that little neighborhood/area was named. Was knowing the name crucial to my ability to get around? Nope. Is it interesting nonetheless to know the name? Absolutely.

I can also see how the Nuvi will make me more likely to strike out into the countryside, exploring new areas that aren't well documented on even the Thomas Guide. Hooray!

I will add that my nine-year-old daughter is positively enamored with the Nuvi already. She's selecting the vehicle to use, changing its colors, looking at the splash screen choices, fascinated by being able to tell the direction our car is pointed at any given moment, and so on. We've been discussing how the Nuvi works in relation to satellites, what satellites are, and so on. A great teaching tool and excellent for those who are visually oriented!

I'm not one to order one of every gadget released. However, I will say that this will most likely end up on a list one day of my best technology purchases ever. It's practical, fun, portable, affordable, and tremendously useful.

Upgraded from the 350 to the 360 solely for the BT functionality in June 2008. Sorry to say the BT did not work well and many times I'd switch off the BT because the speaker would distort and or there were frequent drop outs. In addition I have trouble hearing the directions with the window open or even the stereo on at a low volume. My speaker isn't loud enough for directions, but distorts when all the way up during a BT call. I have the 360 mounted to the top of my dash. I've used the 360 with a Sony W300i phone and a BB curve. Same issues with both. Callers had a lot of difficulty understanding me. I also noticed subsequent to the latest firm/software upgrade that the unit is slower and not as accurate. In retrospect I should have stayed with the 350. The BT call quality was so poor that I ended up buying a new BT stereo with separate mic. Should have stayed with the 350.

First, when I went to the Garmin website to check for upgrade, it said that I had to register to see if I was eligible for a free upgrade. So I registered and guess what, I wasn't eligible for any free upgrades. It seems to me, little more than a trick to get people to register.

Second, the high price of upgrades. After paying $170, I now find out that I have to pay another $70 to upgrade the maps. They are charging me for the same information that Google gives away for free.

If I had realized the high price to to keep the Garmin current, I would have done more research and possibly made a different purchase,

I just bought the Nuvi 360 for $3 more than the 260 on Amazon. With the addition of bluetooth handsfree and MP3 support, it was a no brainer. My question is why was this model discontinued, and not the 260? Does anyone know?

Great value for the price. I needed text-to-speech so I would not have to take my eyes off the road. This gps works great. I only wish that the volume could be made to go louder than it does as I don't think it can be heard clearly over the car radio.

Garmin nüvi 360 3.5-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Text-To-Speech

This GPS is so easy to use and makes traveling so stress free. We should have bought one long ago. We liked ours so much, we bought a second one for our son for Christmas. The only thing is that the price went down $25 since we bought the second GPS one month ago. I guess we should have waited...

This is the second Nuvi 360 that I've bought in one year; and, despite the time difference, I couldn't find more bang for my buck than this model.
1. Price on Amazon had dropped from $320.00 to $199.99.
2. Only Garmin at this price with Bluetooth Connectivity.
3. Speaks Street names and warns you of an upcoming turn twice.
4. Finds many retail stores; and, with a BT enabled phone allows you to find not only the location, but also call the store directly from the unit.
5. Screen real estate is large enough to see details, yet still the unit fits in your pocket.

With so many navigators out there, its hard to figure out which one is best. For my money, this Garmin Nuvi has all the features one needs to be safe (and on time) when driving both familiar and unfamiliar roads.

Garmin nüvi 360 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Bluetooth and Text-to-Speech

This GPS navigator is a wonderful product and a value for money buy. Even though most new cars come equipped with a GPS navigator, this one is still worth having. Its handy, with all necessary GPS navigator functions like Favorite Locations, Text-to-speech and wide array of search points.

It comes with all peripherals needed like the 12/24 volt car charger, USB charger and a nice case.

All in all highly recommended for anyone looking for a quality product in ecomomical price range. Amazon is the place to buy your new Garmin nuvi!

This thing is really something, I really didn't need it, I just wanted it! It doesn't always map out the shortest way, but either does Mapquest. I would have given it "5 stars", but the bluetooth sometimes forgets to pair with my phone

This is a great GPS system. It comes with everything you could possibly want. Text to Speach, Bluetooth capable, carry case so you don't leave it in the car. If you do leave it it has an anti theft password you can use and then stickers for your window telling would be thefts to pass this one by. You get the A/C addapter, the car adapter, USB cable, Dash mount window mount, CD Rom and even a free coupon for an audio book to listen to in the car.

Some more expensive units don't come with everything you need. You find out when you get it home that it can only be on when the car is running and you have no other way to charge it. The screen is quite clear and easy to read. No need to get a 4.3 size this is really quite perfect, infact larger would be more of a distraction.

You get screen savers also, how cool. There are different voices to choose to talk to you. Some have complained about the volume but you can adjust it easliy. The touch screen programing is so simple and the letters are big enough if you have larger hands you are not pressing two letters at the same time.

I tried it just coming home from church and it wanted me to take another route than I had planned I just went on my way and she said reaculating and in 1 sec she had my way planned. You can zoom in and out what type of view you want.

This is fine unit and I cannot wait to take it on a trip. Oh you can also get chips to update it for vacations like Europe and the like.

My cousin gave this to me as a gift, and I love it. Tells me where to go and even which side of the road. Colors are bright and clear, volume is great. I've even used the bluetooth and it uploads all the contacts from my iPhone. I also use it for geocaching and can upload cache pages with all the details. I'm buying one for my daughter next.

I have had the Nuvi 360 for over 3 years and I love it more now than when I first purchased it. I normally do not write reviews, but when a company gets something right, you want to let people know. I do not want to rehash everything that has already been said. I just purchased the 2009 Garmin map update for North America. Some people may not need the map update, the older maps seem to do the trick most of the time. The old roads are normally still going to be their. But I travel a lot for my company, so I need to find newer business addresses. Anyway the update was flawless and the update also includes a updated POI list. When I use to go out of town on a business trip, I would always dread looking on mapquest or a regular map to find something. Finding a business is half the battle for me. When I arrive in another city, I set the Hotel I am staying in as a favorite place. I know I can just take off in any direction and have confidence it can get me back to where I need to be. A lot of times, I will just ride around with no address inputted in my Garmin. So, when I get tired of looking around, the hotel if just a couple of pushes away on the Garmin. It is now closing in on 2009, I see alot of cars now having other GPS units that are not Garmins. I guess they do not know how easy a Garmin is to use. The Garmin 360 had trouble with the bluetooth conecting to my phone when I first purchaed it. But they quickly came out with a firmware update that fixed the problem.

I had a Garmin 200 and it worked very well. I bought the 360 as a upgrade. Once again Garmin makes a great product. The only down side of the 360 is the speaker. Quite hard to hear. The other downside is the 360 has a tendency to "lockup" and you have to reset it. Not a big deal but a little annoying

I am not a tech person. When it comes to computers I'm old school and prefer the old ways. Yet I see the advantages modern technology has to offer. I borrowed a Garmin nuvi from my friend when I went to drop off my daughter at UF in Gainesville. It was so 'user friendly' and convenient to track stores and restaurants that I was hooked for life. I came back from the trip and bought three of them. Now my married son has one and my older daughter. I even asked my UF daughter if she would like one when she goes bike riding around the city. She said it wouldn't be practical. How would she hook it up? Was it weather resistant? I think we're unto something here. If your company would offer one for bikers/walkers at an affordable college price, I'm game to buy it.
I went to Sea World this past summer on vacation and they have their own GPS for inside the park. I told my UF daughter to tell UF about designing one for their campus. I don't think she mentioned it to them. Think how handy for parent orientations/workshops/seminars/conferences, that are always going on there or anywhere. If you patent my idea, please let me in on the interest.
To say the least I am very pleased with my purchase.

I have a Tom Tom in one car and a Sanyo in another. By far this Garmin is the best of the three.

I've been "kicking tires" when it comes to GPS units for a couple years. In the last few months I've seen the prices dropping to where even the casual user such as myself couldn't resist finally taking the plunge. Although new models from Garmin have recently arrived and this NUVI 360 is listed as "discontinued" on Garmins site, you will find that for the money that just made this the smart choice. With it's text-to-speech, bluetooth, MP3 capability, plus the fact that ALL the essential cables are in the box ,what else do you need? Unless you decide you can't live without the widescreen (your supposed to be watching the road not the Garmin anyway), keep the $100.00 upcharge in your pocket. The unit performs flawlessly and even when I purposely take a wrong turn,it quickly replots the route and gets you back on course. If I were to "nitpick" my only complaint would be that it only has 1 speaker instead of 2 like its higher priced cousins. This is only a bother when someone calls me and I use its Bluetooth capabilities to talk hands free. Although everyone says I sound fine on their end, its a bit muffled to listen to when I try and hear their words coming through. If it weren't for that , I would have given it 5 stars. Considering this unit was bringing close to $900.00 retail when first released in 2006 , this is a steal! Compare this model to Garmins comparible new releases and you'll be pulling the trigger on this one like I did. The only other suggestion would be to buy the Beanbag mount, it keeps the unit securely on the dash and within reach while at the same time keeping that "break in to my car" circle off the windshield that alert thieves there is something in your car they'd want..lol.Unless time is all you have, don't use Amazon's free super saver shipping. It takes 7-10 days and you can walk to their warehouse and pick it up faster. Grab this unit before its sold out!!

I bought this 1 month before. So far it didn't give me any issues. It works excellent. Also its blue tooth and text to speech feature is very nice.

I got this for my husband as he travels a lot for his work. He loves it. We found it was the last model and it wasn't been produced any longer, but that doesn't bother him. He uses it every day and thinks it is the greatest. No problems with anything about it. I would recommend it to anyone.

There is plenty to like about this model. The text-to-speech alone is enough recommend it. Adding customer POI's was relatively easy. I also liked the customizable vehicle icon and voices. My main complaint involves the quality of the bluetooth feature. People on the other end of my call were often unable to understand me and said they heard a lot of static. Plugging it into the car's aux port helped on my end, but the mic leaves something to be desired.

All in all, I would highly recommend this model, especially given its price.

Drove on some CA roads that I know have been around for over 3 years. But GPS showed me driving on "dirt".

Main reason for picking this unit was for the Bluetooth. But was volume was very choppy.

Returned it right away

I ordered the Garmin 360. It is great. I can load my audio books and listen as I drive.

working good so far. the only problem i have had is that the blue tooth will not pair with my current cell phone. Check the garmin site for compatible cell phones.

I love the Garmin Nuvi 360 and so does my girlfriend. That's why I bought another for her as a Christmas gift.

As a GPS if works fine, like any other Garmin GPS. But if you are buying it because it has bluetooth you might find incompatibilities with some phones. It is not compatible with IPHONE and it also blocked my Sony phone.

I liked the way the product worked. I've heard from others that have purchased this product and they said it is getting slower. I purchased this product a month away and I returned it to the Garmin company for a replacement.

When I ordered the nuvi didn't know what to expect. Pleasantly surprised,it works wonderfully out of the box. Only complaint I have is the backroads function is not as accurate as I expected it to be. If it is to be used for freeway and quickest route a wonderful tool to have.

I got this after selling my couple year old PDA gpa that I never used. That thing had the annoying feature of every time the battery died, it unloaded ALL The maps you had loaded in thru the computer. completely beyond aggravation and didn't want to deal with it.

I had tried other garmin nuvis and found them easy to use and what I had expected from a GPS.I had the option to get it built in to my newer car, but with the rate of people breaking in and ripping them out of the dash, I felt more comfortable with a removeable one that I can also bring on journeys in other peoples cars.(or lend it to a person who has no idea where they're going).

I absolutely love that while you're out you can find the nearest target, sephora, grocery store. You can just look up a store by alphabetical order and most likely it'll have one in the system that will work for you. The text-to-speech was as expected and something specific I was looking for was that it said the actual street, not just "turn left if 50 feet". Now it says "turn left in 50 feet on Main Street". The only things I would change is certain things in needs to be more specific about. I sometimes find myself responding to it being like "well, it would have been nice if you had mentioned..." and right now I cant think of a specific incident, only that sometimes I could have used more of a "coming up, look, it's coming up!!" warning or detailed instruction. But heck, it's a machine that gives you directions, so it's pretty great. I also chose this model for the bluetooth feature. I'd never used it before on anything else, but I find it super that when my cell rings, the GPS rings. I don't have to fumble for my phone, I just hit "answer" or "ignore" on the GPS. People say it sounds like I'm in a tunnel when talking to them and that theres a bit of an echo, but for just quick hi, bye kinda things and no long conversations, its perfect. You shouldnt be talking while driving whether it's hands free or not.

I will also note that if you have an AUX jack on your radio(which I use for my IPOD) if you're really nervous about not knowing where you're going,you can plug it into the GPS and the sound comes thru your speakers, so you can control the loudness if you're really just like "I have no clue where I'm going, I want to concentrate on where I'm going and nothing else. GPS, speak to me". You obviously cant listen to the radio when it's like this, so it doesnt interject thru the radio or anything, its just silence when the gps is not speaking.(if you want it to interject, I think thats a feature on the more expensive models that it goes thru your speakers all the time).

I think it has anything you could really need for mild-to-moderate use, not exactly sure what the more expensive models hold, but this one seems to cover a bit of everything without paying an extremely expensive price.
Great little GPS, I'd definitely buy it again.

It is very intuitive to use. I love the text to speech function. It reads out the name of the street instead of just giving the distance before a turn. A very useful feature! My samsung A507 cell phone has no trouble syncing with this bluetooth device. It has a more than adequate volume level. The language translator is basic but good. I have not used the mp3 player function. Displaying jpegs via sd card slot was good as well if a touch slow (just nitpicking). I highly recommend this product!

overall itz a worth buy...bluetooth is good..no worries in picking up phone while driving...we liked it...

Not only is this product excellent, but the personal assistance at NUVI is outstanding. All products should be made like this and the technical assistance and support is professional, courteous and very, very helpful.

Hats off to NUVI!

I absolutely love my Garmin. Easy to program and operate. I wouldn't leave home without it.

I've had this for about a month now and it works great. One problem I had is that the description wasn't clear about whether or not it comes with the car charger. I ended up buying one to go with it and it turned out I didn't need it, so I returned it to Amazon. The screen is very easy to read. It has a low profile and sits right on my car windshield where I can see it well. I love the lock out feature. It comes with little decals that say "Garmin Lock" on them and you put them in your window. Once you put in the pin#, no one can use your GPS except for you. If it gets stolen, it's useless. All GPS devices should have this so the thieves know to stay away. I also like the little carry case that came with it. You can also choose female or male for your voice. My old GPS was female only. The only other problem I had with it is that it took me to an old location of a restaurant that had moved about a year ago. Luckily it only moved down the street. So after some asking around, we finally found our way there. I have not tried the bluetooth yet.

Love it! Ordered another one for my father because he borrowed mine and loves it also!

Over the years I've had the opportunity to use GPS products from multiple manufacturers like Garmin, Magellan, Tom-Tom & Navigon....even though the Gamin NuVI 360 is a great GPS product, it was developed a couple of years back and in today's world the age shows.

Here what I like:

1) Great routing! - The NuVI definitely does the best job with routing from point A to B.

2) Bluetooth Phone integration - This is something that really comes handy, especially when you are traveling alone....this is better than bluetooth headsets since you get to see the name/number of the person calling you before you accept/reject the call. Making calls is also a piece of cake with Phonebook integration. Bluetooth was the primary reason why I selected this model.

3) Text to Speech - One of the most necessary things when you are out on the road!

4) Awesome POI database - You'll get just about any place of interest on this product....the database is waaaaay better than the other GPS products in the market. And with Bluetooth integration, you can directly call up a POI on-the-go.

5) Great Garmin Support - Garmin probably has the best support system, with the support site giving regular product updates & softwares.

What I DO NOT like:

1) Zip based address search not supported. This is available in almost all other modern products. At times you do not know the name of the city, you just have the address zip code....that wouldn't work here.

2) Context based text entry not supported. Once you have selected the city, other products like the Magellan will highlight just those characters on screen that would make up the next character of a valid street name in the selected city. Comes in really handy when you are trying to quickly enter an address. Not supported in the NuVI 360

3) Next turn direction indicator not shown on screen. Even though you'll get the direction after a click, while driving, it makes a big difference to get to see this all the time

4) Speed Limit not shown - The Navigon always shows the speed limit on the current road on screen. The NuVI knows internally what the speed limit is (try using the "simulation" mode, the simulated car will always travel at, or near, the valid speed limit for that road). However, this DOES NOT come up on screen and there's no way you'll get that information.

5) Navigon's "Reality View" is an awesome help on highway bifurcations. Not available on any of the other products.

Overall the NuVI 360 is a great "old" product. Good to see that Garmin has withdrawn it from the market.

Awesome GPS!!! Garmin has the easiest to use and most accurate GPS systems, and this model is a great price for having the text to speech feature (announcing road names). My only complaint is the lack of a paper manual, because when you first get it you are so excited to use it and just go to your car with it to set up. However, setup and use are relatively easy and the accuracy and search features are right on.

I have had this Garmin nuvi 360 since February of '08 and have used the device on several trips since. I live in Illinois and have used the unit on local trips and long trips to Missouri, Kentucky, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Tennessee. First, let me say that I researched GPS units prior to purchasing this one. I went to the local stores and read on line reviews to help with the decision. I decided what features and price range worked best for me and chose this model.

The 360 has the features I wanted in a GPS and the Amazon price saved me around $100 over Best Buy. The 3 1/2 inch screen is easily viewed in day and night modes and maneuvering from one menu to another is easy. I really like the way the unit announces directions and street names (Text-to-Speech) and appreciate being able to concentrate on driving, especially in city traffic, instead of on the map. The attention tone feature is also nice. This function sounds a chime immediately before an announcement so if you're visiting or listening to radio/stereo you can be ready to listen. The menu is packed full of locations organized in different categories. I like being able to look for gas stations, restaurants and stores while on the road. The built in Bluetooth was a main reason I got the 360. I particularly appreciate being able to make phone calls from the device. My wife and I used the Bluetooth several times on vacation to call hotels/stores while on the road. While I like the Bluetooth, I had complaints from several people on the receiving end of the conversation who said I sounded like I was in a tin can. They also complained of feed back. Perhaps the tin can affect is from cabin noise and distance from the unit. The feed back was probably a volume issue. I needed the volume set higher to hear directions but then the phone calls were really loud. I turned down the Garmin's volume a couple of notches during calls. I have found the Garmin's maps to be detailed and accurate for the most part. Although the screen of the Garmin cannot show a map like you see in a road atlas, you can scroll the map in order to look ahead on your route.

As I mentioned above I have used the Garmin on several trips over a period of several months. I won't detail all of those trips but will say that the nuvi generally did an outstanding job on the highway and in the city. There have been instances where the unit took me to a place or street that had changed or the GPS got confused and kept telling me to turn when common sense, experience and maps dictated differently. The latter happened once when driving through Atlanta on the way to FL and again when we were within a few miles of an Army base. The vast majority of the time, however, the unit has performed quite well and rare errors in navigating were my fault and not the 360's.

I do advise to keep map software updated. I updated the 360's map software prior to summer vacation driving and noticed a difference. I also want to include a warning: husbands beware. The first long trip on which I used the Garmin was to my mother-in-law's house in KY. Please note, I am directionally challenged, my wife is not. If you are traveling to your wife's childhood home and follow the GPS instead of your wife's directions you may encounter marital strife. Even though I keep the 360 set on "Fastest Route" most of the time and we went straight to her mother's house, my wife said there was a better, quicker way. I explained that I was following the Garmin for the sake of science but that didn't quite wash. Interestingly, on a return trip to the same place a few months later after I had updated the maps, the 360 used the route my wife suggested the first time.

I do like this product but there is a learning period and I like directions. Garmin doesn't include the full manual with this unit. Instead, they include a quick guide. The full manual can be read on the computer but if you want a hard copy you'll have to print the 67 page manual yourself.

Finally, a comment which is not specific to this Garmin product. I purchased Fodor's North America from Garmin for this nuvi's Travel Kit and have been disappointed. While I have used the extra, I haven't found the guide to be quite as helpful as I expected in locating and describing sites.

This was the first GPS navigator that I've owned, I've had it for about 18 months now and I'll probably use it for another 4-5 years before I upgrade. I researched this a lot before I bought, comparing it to TomTom and Magellen's offerings. At the time they just didn't seem to have the feature set or map capabilities that Nuvi 360 had. That may have changed.

I keep discovering more nice operational features every time I take it on a long trip. Mostly by accident, although I've surfed some GPS forums and found a few nice bits of info.

Pros:
1. Very good display, but my next will be bigger. Still I'd want the replacement to fit in my shirt pocket nearly as nicely as Nuvi does.
2. Works very well with BlueTooth on my Blackberry Curve AFTER Garmin released the bug fix for it. No distortion. I use this a lot more than I thought I would.
3. MP3 player is nice, but I've only used it on one trip where I was trying to reduce the amount of individual devices I was taking.
4. Locking suction cup window mount works the best of any I've ever used. Only fallen off the windshield twice in over 12,000 highway miles.
5. Touch screen works well, even with my "fat fingers".
6. I like that it's smart enough to know what time the sun rises and sets and changes the display colors from day to night, although it's not smart enough to know when it's crossed timezones and reset the clock or arrival time.
7. I like being able to download free "points of interest" from POI-factory.com and install them using Garmin's free downloadable software.
8. The ability to plug in an SD card to expand the memory has come in handy more than once. My SD card currently has a half dozen family photos and some MP3's.
9. Relatively inexpensive map updates. [...]for the very expensive Alpine OEM Navi that came in my 2005 Honda Pilot. I'll never update the Pilot!

Cons:
1. All text-to-speech navigators have this problem, it has no etiquette when it comes to announcing directions! :) She just blurts them out no matter what else is going on at the time and tries to talk over the human beings in the car. This is typically met with the rowdier passengers asking "What's the b***** saying now???" And I haven't found any quick way to get her to repeat what she just said.
2. Some maps are badly out of date. In 1983 a huge mudslide wiped out part of Highway 6 near Thistle, Utah. Twenty-five years later (!) Nuvi still thinks it's there and recalculates over and over as you drive the "new" two mile stretch. Also, there was supposed to be an Arby's in a very empty field near Cheyenne, Wyoming.
3. No way to teach it a shortcut.
4. I think some speed limits have been changed on I-90 in New York since Nuvi got updated. This summer I was traveling 5-10 mph faster than the posted 65 Mph speed limit and Nuvi kept adding time to my final arrival time. This didn't happen anywhere else. Usually my arrival time decreased.
5. It would be nice to be able to select what 6 things are displayed on the page that shows Overall Avg, Moving Avg, Max Speed, etc. I flip back and forth between it and the map page to see how much distance I have left vs projected arrival time.
6. I wish there was an option to show you just gas/food/lodging, etc. that are close to your projected forward path only, and not include the places you passed 2 miles back. Someday I might want to turn around and drive back 19 miles to a McDonalds, :) but mostly I want to know where the next one is coming up.
7. I wish the keyboard screen was QWERTY instead of ABCDE.

All in all it's been a good little helper and better than 98% of the time it gets us where we want to go in the most efficient manner.

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This was my first GPS, and I am pretty please with it. used it for about 4 weeks. Used it from Cedar Rapids,IA to Dallas,Tx and from Dallas,TX to Florida. worked pretty well and reliable. Good images & maps.

Really great product! Easy to use once you get the hang of it. Takes a minute for it to get a signal but overall highly recommended!

I purchased this Nuvi as a birthday present for my boyfriend. He could hardly find his way out of a paper bag, until I gave him this. It really is great. It is as accurate as can be expected. However, on about the third day of use, after being fully charged, we used it and it quit. We didn't know what was wrong because there was no warning for the battery, and it wasn't on low, it just stopped working. This was unfortunate because we really didn't know where we were going and didn't take the charger. We made it home and charged it, and it seems to be fine now. The mount that it comes with isn't the best, either. We live in Florida, so I realize the conditions are a bit more extreme than in other places.

Pros:
great screen size
loud volume
accurate directions
great features (including the bluetooth)

Cons:
random battery failure
faulty windshield attachment device

Overall, we would totally recommend the Nuvi 360 to others. Though, Garmin's discontinued policy is a bit strange.

I bought the Nuvi 360 and immediately downloaded the 2009 maps on Garmin, which are free for 1 month. The unit has proven to be very solid, despite having a few hiccups. Moving from Florida to New Jersey has allowed me the time to see the unit in action.

The Nuvi 360 is a very solid GPS unit despite not always finding the quickest route to one's destination. The bluetooth has worked very well and the unit overall has served my needs......

For the money, the Nuvi 360 is a great buy and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a GPS unit.

I've been using the nuvi360 for about 8 months now, and while it's been a lifesaver, it hasn't done anything that any other GPS could do. My biggest problem is that the screen is polarized 90 degrees off axis. If you're using polarized glasses the screen is black. I've driven about 3500 miles this summer and had to use the thing at a goofy 45 degree angle and tip my head just so I could see the screen. The only reason I didn't return it is because it was a gift.

This is a major engineering blunder in the screen fabrication. There are tons of alternatives out there. Get one of those instead.

This is one of the best things I have ever bought. I love it. It's very accurate. I love that it has bluetooth, I can call and receives call from the device. When I sync my phone with device it copied my phone book. The only thing about this (which is not a big deal) is that the semulated car never gets to the finish line. I like this GPS and it's better than the other one I have tried.

Overall, very satisfied with this GPS and its features, well worth the relative price would have given 4.5 stars if available. I purchased this GPS just days before a roadtrip across the states. Using for more than 4200 miles along the trip I learned many of its uses and limitations. First though, setup is quite intuitive and easy to master, I spent just minutes configuring the setup without instructions. However, after registering online, I found that new firmware and software was available for my unit. I spent a few hours downloading everything to my computer and uploading it to the the unit. Garmin's customer support is great but you have to wait for long periods on hold. The database is huge and takes a computer with significant harddrive space (about 10GB) to load. The database still isn't perfect (few misnamed fuel stations and out of business restaurants) but it worked quite well throughout the trip. The popup antenna quickly acquires satellites no matter the location. The Sirf technology is very accurate and will calculate if you are off route in just seconds. It will always put you on the fastest or shortest route. However, it will not allow you calculate a scenic route. Overall it was a very comforting item to have at night or when driving to an area where we didn't have a detailed map. The Bluetooth feature is great, not only to answer calls but to call numbers in the database automatically. The speaker is a bit tinny but overall works well. I have not used the MP3 player or the Book Reader. I've tried other friends GPS navigators (Tom Tom One and Garmin 260) and just wasn't satisfied with the performance or the database features. This GPS navigator works very well and we are glad we got it.

This is a great product. The voice commands with street names is extremely helpful. Would recommend updating the maps right away. Highly recommend product and GARMIN company. GARMIN International technical support was great when I had trouble downloading on my 10 year old computer - they talked me through the process step by step.

Recently, I purchased a Garmin Nuvi 260 for my mother who is technologically challenged at best. She picked it right up and used it! I then started shopping for a GPS for myself. I knew that I wanted a Garmin, but I wanted bluetooth as well. I did some research and found the Nuvi 360 at the top of every list. How right the reviews are!!! I love mine... and get this...today I was talking via the bluetooth speaker to my dad and he said it sounded better than any headset and maybe better than the phone itself! The bluetooth is a very nice feature. I had no problems pairing it with my iPhone which I was worried about. The text-to-speech is great and the voice interface is very clear. All and all a great product for the money!

I like the Nuvi 360 very much. The only problem I had was the maps were old and I had to download the 2009 maps and that took awhile on my computer. People are not aware of what year is available. I just happened to look on the Garmin website and saw the new maps. Maybe your company can have the maps downloaded before you sell it.

So glad to order this Garmin product. Exactly meets our needs and performs beyond expectations. Would have paid more for more functions, but found they were not necessary. This product has already got me out of several situations of being lost in a nearby town and and also consistently and very accurately figured out the correct drive times to various destinations, despite road conditions. Wonderful functions, beautiful maps, lots of great functions and intuitively easy to use.
Wonderful product!

Very Pleased. Working right out of the box--hardest part was updating the maps online, if I had to do it again I would buy the disk to do the updating, even with a high speed DSL it was very time consuming.

Like the ease of use, works well here in Texa. If I had it to do again, I might buy the larger screen size. All in All a very good product

This GPS works great. The announcements by street name is a big plus over previous GPSs. I have used it on several trips now and found it to be quite reliable, easily recalculates routes when needed. It also does a good job of determining your new location (ex: use it to get to airport in point A, fly across country to point B, it will determine that you are in point B now in under 5 minutes). I have used other GPS units that take a very long time, 30 minutes or more to make this determination. I would like to volume to be a little louder or have the speaker in the front. But this is not a big enough problem from my recommending it to others. I would buy the unit again.