Garmin Nuvi 370 Review

Introducing Garmin’s Nüvi 370 GPS Travel Assistant!

Building upon the wildly successful 350 model, the garmin nuvi 370 gps systems retains all the features that made the 350 system an award winner, editor’s choice and record sales shattered; as well as adding some new 2007 age features, additions and tools to vamp up everyone’s favorite system of 2006.

Adding such features as Bluetooth connectivity, traffic integration through the FM TMC receiver, and also beefing up many of the things that made its little cousin so successful, it is a very modestly priced unit in the middle of the market range, offering unparalleled performance and accuracy over some of its similarly priced counterparts and competitors.

The 370’s Main Menu

Firing up the garmin nuvi 370, your first impression is of a very clean and simple, but incredibly efficient navigation of the unit. Simple and easy taps of the touch screen navigates you through the categories, and everything is well labeled and neatly organized for your easy arrival to the feature you are looking for. The interface is extremely efficient and simple in use, and ads real appeal by being easy to use in the midst of traffic and driving.

Navigation and Driving

The core of the nuvi 370, the display of your route and travel is very easy to read with multiple 2d, 3d, day and night modes, with a simple yet extremely efficient routing with different colors of roads and object symbolizing different things. Turn by turn instructions (in voice, visual or text), easy to zoom, and with data such as how much further to arrival, the estimated time and conditions of your route to arrival, and much more make navigation and driving through even the most confusing and foreign places pretty simplistic and mindless.

Accuracy and Route control

Among experts and gps geeks, the nuvi 370 from garmin is highly accredited as having some of the best accuracy, range and speed of data delivery out there… powered by a ultra high-sensitivity WAAS GPS receiver by SiRF, even missing a turn (you must be sleeping) will result in a mind blowing recalculation of the new most efficient and quick route, at much greater speeds then one would even notice they have gone of course manually. Accuracy was rock solid when I tested this in various separate driving conditions and regions, and forum chat and customer garmin nuvi 370 reviews all seem to agree that this unit is rock solid and leading the pack in terms of accuracy, speed, reception and reliability.

Traffic Condition integration via FM TMC receiver

traffic conditions Fairly new to mid-low priced gps systems, the garmin nuvi 370 receiver also has the ability to display and integrate traffic data into your routes for more accurate timing and route selection.

Receive alerts of possibly unfavorable traffic conditions, tie ups, accidents and holdups, and then simply tap your beloved garmin touch screen to steer clear of the problems and beat your boss to work or win the amazing race (there’s an idea, easily winning that amazing race television show… I wonder if such powerful GPS units are banned from this competition)

Design and Portability

The nuvi 370 is sleek, streamlined and simple in design that adds to its overall appeal in my opinion. All features are nicely loaded into a small frame without tons of buttons and things sticking out of the unit. The sleek and bottomless frame make it ideal to slip into your pocket or purse when on the go or traveling by foot, and the fast charging and long lasting lithium ion battery makes it easy to plug and play on the go as well. For expansion of memory and programs, you can get SD memory cards which slide into the unit to be hidden at the top right hand side of the frame, and a single pressure sensitive power button allows you to easily turn on, off, and restart your unit. Besides its portability, people really like the sheer and sleek appearance a great deal. All features are navigated to throw the ultra bright and large touch screen, and the sleek and portable design truly add to the overall value of the garmin nuvi 370 and other gps units in the lineup.

Mp3 Player, pictures, tools & more

Getting away from the main feature of the garmin 370 gps, which is the core navigation, routing and traveling companionship it brings, there is also a force of features behind it that make it really versatile and quite fun to play around with. Whether you take hundreds of music cds and thousands of tracks on an expandable SD memory card (about $15 for `1GB of space, or 200-300 songs) turn it into a multimedia picture and slide show viewer, use the language, translation and interest point guide or more, there is really too many additional features to cover here today all on one web page.

Bluetooth Enabled & Hands Free calls

A great upgrade to last years best selling units, the garmin nuvi 350, the garmin 370 now comes standard with Bluetooth equipped connectivity and hands free calling. I know all too well that receiving and making phone calls while driving and struggling with traffic and finding your destination can be both overwhelming and DANGEROUS. Now with your garmin nuvi 370 or simi9lar gps units, you don’t find yourself getting caught up in dangerous traffic, struggling with finding turns, and you can easily multi task while you travel with voice guidance of upcoming turns and directions, while taking a phone call wireless over your car stereo system and the built in microphone. You will need blue tooth capable devices to take advantage of this feature, and if you already have a compatible cell phone or other device, you will love this feature from the get go.

Some visitor Garmin Nuvi 370 Reviews

Visitor Thomas send in his garmin nuvi 370 review to give us some feelings about using the unit in multiple regions of the world. Emphasis on its accuracy and bonus features, while stating that some times he thinks the chosen route could have been more effective.
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An anonymous visitor emailed their personal nuvi 370 review talking about its user friendliness and its accuracy and speed being better then similar gps models from competitive brands MIO and Street Pilot.
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Jimmy offered up his thoughts and garmin 370 nuvi reviews stating his love for the Bluetooth option and how he prefers it over some much more expensive competitive models
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Visitor Brittany talks about and reviews the garmin nuvi 370 gps in the third person (the British female voice personality preloaded into the unit) with emphasis on it being extremely and a joy to have around in unfamiliar territory.
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Video of Nuvi Usage

Here is a small video of a garmin nuvi gps being demonstrated at the CES electronics show. They run you through some of the features and the touch screen navigation on a projector, to give you a good idea of what it’s like to play with and discover the menus, utilities and features of your nuvi 370 gps system:

Garmin Nuvi 370 accessories

Whether you are looking for upgrades to your nuvi’s 370 functionality or features, expanding multimedia and fun features or looking for better antenna’s, mounts or carrying cases… there are quite a few garmin nuvi 370 accessory options for you. Some of the most common accessories include sd memory card upgrades or feature upgrades, resulting in more comprehensive language, translation, region coverage, storage space and more.

Other common upgrades to the nuvi 370 are mounts that allow you to place to device in different locations rather then the shipped windshield mount, as well as protective cases and guards, down to antenna accessory upgrades for your garmin 370 that give you greater and more powerful range.

I recommend checking out amazon or eBay to find the lowest prices and cheapest sales on all things garmin gps accessories as you may have trouble finding them elsewhere and if you do will probably be asked a much higher price tag then that of which you would spend at one of the internet’s largest retailers.

Best Prices, Cheapest Discounts and Buying the Nuvi 370

I did some research online and offline to check out the price differential on gps and electronics in general. What I found is that never do the best buy, Wal-Mart, and other large offline retailers truly offer the lowest nuvi 370 prices and discounts on items, and that if you are looking for the absolute best price on the garmin nuvi 370 you best bet is to compare online stores, where companies are tightly competing with each other and driving the prices extremely low online. When I choose an online store to find the best prices on an item, I stress a reputable and known retailer, and for this reason the best two places I find to get the nuvi 370 cheapest prices are amazon (represents with integrity and security dozens of smaller retailers) and eBay, which can be a bit more hard and doesn’t offer the security level that a known retailer like Amazon offers, for a few dollars less.

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Anyways, it’s in your best interest to spend half an hour looking for the best deals and cheap discounts, but all in all its about 95% sure that the below link will offer you the best value, service and security if you want to buy the garmin nuvi 370 or similar gps system.

Much much more

This gps system is just literally pumped full of surprises, tools and fun packing features. There really is much more to this unit then meets the eye and that I have covered here, unfortunately to take you 100% into the details of every aspect of the garmin nuvi gps lineup would take an unimaginable amount of time, so I have tried to summarize the basics above.

Check out some of the other garmin nuvi 370 reviews listed above, shop around for the low and cheap prices and sales available to you, and educate yourself on what exactly you desire or require and then make the decision on your preferred gps unit!

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