Garmin nuvi 300 Car GPS Receiver

The product is the state of the art in sat nav and is so easy to use. You can not possibly ever get lost again. Even when you make a wrong turn this sat nav re directs you, Fantastic piece of gear.

I HAVE BEEN USING THE SAME UNIT FOR 2 YEARS NOW, IT IS THAT GOOD I DECIDED TO BUY MY DAUGHTER ONE.I CONSIDER IT TO BE ONE OF THE BEST UNITS ON THE MARKET,A SOLID VERSATILE UNIT THAT IS SO SIMPLE TO USE EVEN WITHOUT INSTRUCTIONS IT IS SO EASY TO UNDERSTAND.A1958J

Very nice compact device, exceptionally fast mapping and recalculation (important) - when compared to TomTom units. Excellent windscreen mount too. VERY long charging lead means that you can place the SatNav almost anywhere, and it works in vehicles with heated windscreens well too - at least in my wife's Ford. It does occasionally freeze up, but this has been less frequent since I last updated it online, and will probably stop altogether once Garmin produce another update. Traffic (Via TMC / GTM12) is fabulous, really useful and the built-in Speed camera database has saved my licence already !

We have found it easy to use and pretty user friendly. The display is clear and generally shows both clear and good information.

On several occasions it has given warnings that obviously were not correct, telling us about speed cameras and speed limits that we guessed applied to an almost parallel road to the one on which we were travelling. The response time to check the position from sattelites is pretty good considering the price of the equipment - it compares with the time delay on the TV sattelite links we see everyday on television

We have not had to use the 'find an alternative route' programme yet - this will probably be one of the more high risk tasks for it.

It is easy to set up and simple to remove so it is never left in the car unattended. It has workrd well from the car electrics and from the internal battery, though this was a very short test. I would rather make a review in another six months time when we have used it much more.

Love:
really simple to use, great options, clear directions, clear screen, portability.

I bought this for my partner after a lot of research, which put me off Tom Tom for life mainly due to reputedly poor after service amongst other things.. (any company that has a review for afterservice worries me.. what is so consistently wrong with their products???)..

It was simple to add some addresses to it so he could literally use it out of the box, and it is intuitive enough to access all basic functions without a manual.

The mapping is good, and we both like the way it changes scale depending on the speed you are driving too! also the option to have Point of View or true North orientation is good.

To "test" it we have used it on well known oft driven journeys, and despite "local knowledge" it has found ways to cut 10 mins off 40 min journeys consistently and we have discovered local scenery we never knew existed..

I am not sure if it is "programmed", but we have noticed at different times of the day/week it will pick different routes to the same place - for example it toook us a different route round a local market town one saturday.. It was a bit unnerving at first, but now it's kind of fun wondering which route "brenda" will take today..

Strangely, it seems to make driving on even a known route more relaxing, and I am now considering buying a second unit!!

Having said all that, there are a couple of niggles...

1) no mains charger means you have to plug in all the wires in the car, or leave it attached to your computer.

2) the "full" manual is only available as a download, only a quick start one is provided.

3) The traffic unit seems hugely prone to problems - I have yet to find a use for it!! Despite the suggestion that all local traffic info is available, on the rare occasions the unit picks up a signal, it has been national - I was driving in Lancashire just after Christmas and there were only 7 traffic notifications displayed for the whole country, and the closest one was central London 300 miles away... despite traffic broadcasts on BBC saying a local Main road (A59) had a traffic flow problem due to roadworks..

4) Traffic unit will only work if the power connector is attached to the Nuvi too, so the car it littered with cable.. and the Traffic unit aerial is a long wire with 2 suction cups you attach to your windscreen.. it's fiddly and annoying, so much so it lives in the glovebox unused..

Pros - Good build quality, simple menu and interface, very easy to operate, Has TMC port, automatically avoids roadblock, Good list of POIs, 1 month free safety camera database, safety camera alert, music player etc.

Cons - The suction mount comes off from windscreen occasionally during travel, Not as many options as in tomtom (eg. advanced planning)

I got the GPS unit and TMC receiver for about £105 from ebay, which is a good bargain.

I have purchased Garmin products previously, so to me this is a tried and trusted product. This sat nav is more up to date than my previous purchase. It has some great features and an excellant buy. I personally cannot fault it. I would definately recommend this item to anyone wanting to purchase a GSP Receiver. In fact 2 work collegues have purchased it from my recommendation.

A really useful piece of kit. sometimes the choice of route is surprising resulting in using some very narrow lanes which you wouldn't select if you had local knowledge. However, it has not yet failed to get me to my destination. As I'm often the only person in the car and going to unfamiliar locations, it is rapidly becoming an indispensible accessory.

this sat-nav is truly awesome not only for the UK, Europe but for the USA, i've rented 1 of these units twice in the USA & it made the holidays absoultly terrific, it is acurate to within 8 feet of your destination, its well worth getting if you travel abroad a lot.

highly recommended

very easy to use and reliable.software upgrades are easy to obtain through the garmin webb site.nice small unit so you could carry it around with you on foot.

its one of the best mid range sat navs you can buy,why buy somthing for £3/400 when this at £1/120 duz as good 10/10 you wont get lost again,
plus it can slip straght in your pocket as it not big and bulky, and can use as a hand held in big cities so you will never get lost again

I dont have many experience with sat navig, yet what I can say is that this model 350 nuvi is very simple to use, no expertise required, has some interesting extras as well, and what I like most is that it is very compact. Also it did not cost much for its specs.

I have many years experience with GPS systems using them in my hobbies of speed racing, cycling and for other more down to earth things like car navigation and Geocaching. I needed a system with TMC (traffic flow roports) so it was down to the nuvi, tomtom, or a royaltek bluetooth GPS reciever. So why the Nuvi, well I tried the tomtom and even the latest maps do not cover many streets in my area that have been here for over 6 years! So navigating to the local cineworld (built in 2002, this review is written in Dec 2008) is impossible because as far as tomtom is concerned its in the middle of a field. So as I travel over 30-40,000 nmiles a year the tomtom was excluded especially as some of its routings were bordering on the insane e.g. trying to take me through oldham town centre when there is a good bypass! So tomtom gone, it was down to garmin or royaltek. Using the royaltek would have meant using Destinator on my windows mobile phone, destinator is brilliant with up to date maps and excellent routing. But cost wise it was a similar price to getting the Garmin. I already use a garmin when I am speed surfing and my partner uses a nuvi 200. So I already knew the 2008 and 2009 city navigator maps were excellent. In the end I decided on the Garmin. So how does it perform? Well satellite lock is really quick. If only the same could be said for the Traffic antenna. Traffic is collected via a wire antenna which you sucker to your windscreen (renault owners note this wont work in your reflective windsreens). sometime it gets the traffic within seconds, other times it can be 15 minutes before traffic is captured. This is due to the scanning process for traffic channels on the FM band which is like retuning your radio. So I guess this is similar for all systems. In the UK the Nuvi 300T comes with premium trafficMaster for free. SO you do get brilliant reports and can see all the holdups on the screen and why they are hold ups (e.g. traffic jam, roadworks, stationary and slow traffic for x miles). The let down is the rerouting, in theory as soon as you plan a route it should notify you of any holdups on the navigate screen. In practice this hardly ever occurs for me, and if it does I am usually beyond the point of no return and stuck in the jams. So I tend to set my destination and then look on the screen for holdups, then tell the garmin to route around if its still there when I get close. You can see all traffic alerts for the country on the alert screen and what the alerts are though, and its this screen I have on all the time as voice prompts still work whilst on this screen. The unit does have a speed camera database and (currently) 3 months free updates. But then its a subscription service. At which point pocketGPSworld.com should be your main point of call for a far more accurate database at a much cheaper price (£16/year during dec 08). You can also download voice prompts for speed limits and camera types from the above website. The Garmin is a very good unit though and I thoroughly recommend it. It has a built in MP3 player/ebook reader, and a brilliant travel guide program which depending on which guides you buy gives you vocal information on points of interest nearby, e.g. a 2 minute potted history of conwy castle complete with entrance charges. If you join pocketgpsworld they are currently giving away uk historic points travel guide for free! bottom line all sat navs have flaws, but this has far less than most and the best maps

well at first i thort can the price be right so i went past the add i was looking for 1 for a my young 1 so she get to uney . but went back to it just for price & when i receved it its has new all the best

its a very good size easy to understand and use, stores addresses to be reused. no more looking at map upside down. would recommend to friends.

I'm an Electrical Engineer with some savy of technical things. I first moved into the Satnav world with a Navman which I found very good but a little large with buttons rather than a touch screen. I sold the Navman on Ebay and purchased a TomTom 1 which I found OK but the TomTom menus are horrendous to use, I gave them a chance but after around 3 months decided they just weren't user friendly. TomToms generally have numerous additional features which I didn't want.

I thought about what I actually wanted from a Satnav and decided to give Garmin a chance and bought a Nuvi 310 which was a breath of fresh air, small, easy to use menu's, features I wanted. It came with speed cameras loaded and worked a treat. I used the 310 for around a year and found I wouldn't drave anywhere without using it and became a dedicated Garmin man.

I'm driving around France, Italy and Switzerland this summer whilst on holiday and had to decide wether to buy the European maps for the 310 or buy a new unit. Anyway I did some ground work and still came back to Garmin and bought the Nuvi 670T which is fantastic. I have managed to find all hotels in which I've reserved rooms in each of the countries we visit and saved them as favorites which means hopefully no headaches trying to find them as has happened many times in the past driving around France by map. Again speed cameras loaded, one improvement over the 310 is the 670 camera warning are direction sensitive which means it only alarms when the camera is on your side of the road, many units alarm whichever side the camera is on causing numerous nuisance alarms.The screens an all Nuvi are very sensitive and generally work every time they are tapped. The additional functions are useful when travelling like currency converter, MP3 player, travel pack, points of interest,Bluetooth, FM transmitter. Both the 310 and 670T have bluetooth enabling you to use your bluetooth mobile phone completely hands free via your Garmin, it's an excellent facility. In addition the 670 has and FM transmitter enabling you to transmit your 670 instructions or Mp3 via a channel on you car stereo. I looked at the TomTom Go 720t and 920T which both suffer from the complicated TomTom menu syndrome, steer clear of these units if you don't want a headache. I believe at the end of April TomTom are releasing the new 30 series units ie 530, 730 and 930, it'll be interesting to see what they are like, For now my opinion is, Garmin blow TomTom out of the water.

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It is a bit bulky but other than that it is a good add on and a great buy if you are looking for something like this.

It's so easy to use.Just i decide to go somewhere,touch the screen and i can truly trust it.The screen is so sensible,the memory is enough for so much things besides the maps-music,images and so many things.

This device is easy to use and very acurate. There have been no problems with it at all and I amd now looking for another for our other car as we use them both at the same time for various trips. My sister has also got one now and hse agrees its great and easy to use.

Brilliant product, easy to use and functionally, serves its purpose well. I work as a plumber and this product has been essential to getting me to my emergency call outs in the middle of the night. I LIKE IT! Cheaper than some other big names and does the job better than the previous types I've used

I have owned and used a Nuvi300 for nearly four years and still use the original maps.Only once has it confused itself when a 'new' road under construction was unidentified and which went off in a totally different direction ( a new bypass) causing the map to show me in the middle of a field!!
I was !!I have negotiated cities and rural roads with total success.I just cannot see the point of spending a small fortune on allegedly better equipment when the Nuvi does the job perfectly.If you watch the tv 'Road Wars' program you will see Garmin Nuvi300 in a lot of the Patrol cars.If its good enough for the Police it has to be good enough for high speed nav. The correction time delay is negligible and reliable.....sometimes annoying tho' when being advised to do a 'U' turn!! With a bit of common sense there is no need to suddenly find yourself on a cliff edge or traversing a riverbed. Buy with confidence..BUT..watch for inflated prices for 'Used' ones and search the web, including eBay. My only negative is:-The need for a better in-car security fixing to avoid the nuisance of removal to prevent theft when parked. *****