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Garmin StreetPilot C340 Portable Navigator

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• Reviewed by: penningk

  Updated: 06-13-09

  Overall Rating: 1 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Years

  Strengths: Good GPS in 2006

  Weaknesses: No support in 2009

  Overall Evaluation: The current price for the C340 is great --- I paid $800 in Jan. 2006. However, buyers beware: Garmin no longer supports this GPS. I wanted to up-date the maps (June 2009). Customer service told me that 1. I had to buy an up-date made for their new line of GPS for $120 (check the current price of the unit) and 2. the up-date would not fit into the memory of the C340. Garmin no longer provided up-dated maps for the Street Pilot. Customer service cheerfully informed me that the solution would be to buy several SD memory cards to which sectional maps of the USA could be downloaded. As I drove from place to place I could insert a new card into the unit. Aside from the inconvenience and awkwardness of carrying a half dozen cards around, their 'solution' (I don't think their engineers went to MIT) means that you cannot plot a trip from Washington, DC to Chicago or anywhere else outside the region where you live. I will never buy another Garmin for my car or for my boat. Like Detroit, Garmin has forgotten an important fact: they have competitors and brand loyalty disappears when the customer is stiffed.

• Reviewed by: sajanlal

  Updated: 07-06-08

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

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  Strengths: Easy to use; Quickly acquires signal; Has found over 99% of the places I want to go.

  Weaknesses: Bulky.

  Overall Evaluation: It is a good product and works as advertised. The product has all the necessary basics -- voice prompts, clean interface, good signal, etc. Have recommended this product to others. Price is reasonable.

• Reviewed by: tmanus

  Updated: 06-16-08

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Weeks

  Strengths: Compact, voice prompts include street names, intuitive software, good clarity on voice prompts all at a good price.

  Weaknesses: At $155 there isn't any weakness.

  Overall Evaluation: Compact, worked perfect out of the box, great price. This unit did everything I was looking for including voice prompts for street names. A friend recommended the unit, so I went with it as well. Simply a good GPS at a great price. I had no problems or issues.

• Reviewed by: thuletd

  Updated: 04-01-08

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

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  Strengths: It will get you where you are going!!

  Weaknesses: Some roads in new developments are not on here, even after updating. But it still get the job done. It still beats using a map the old fashion way!

  Overall Evaluation: I have owned the c340 and decided to buy my father one. It may be a "dated" gps due to it's size, but who cares if you are only going to using it in the car, plus it is a $100 - $300 less than other models with the same features. It works perfect and the text to speech directions are great. I'm a Realtor and using the Garmin saves me countless hours each week planning routes when looking at houses. It is absolutely wonderful finding restaurants or getting phone numbers to make reservations.

• Reviewed by: TerryMWilliams

  Updated: 01-06-08

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Weeks

  Strengths: Easy to use. Clear screen. Good sound. Many features. Lots of points of interest. Text to speech is worth the extra cost. Great first unit.

  Weaknesses: Nothing major - a couple of times the signal was lost, but mostly in remote areas.

  Overall Evaluation: This is our first GPS unit and it's great. Easy to use out of the box. Many features are great to have and easy to use - like restaurants, gas, attractions, etc. The extra cost for the text to speech was worth it. It's nice to hear street names to help navigate. This is a good unit at a good price

• Reviewed by: hajarjar

  Updated: 01-01-08

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:7 Days

  Strengths: Very friendly and easy interface.

  Weaknesses: Sometimes when I use any of the saved address from my favorites it takes time to load, its kinda of slow but otherwise it is perfect and fast.

  Overall Evaluation: It has all what you need. You can find all the important locations there builtin, and the best thing is when you don't have the address you can type the name of the place you want to go and it will gives you a list with all places have that name. I'm very happy with it and I really recommend it.

• Reviewed by: lucyrunyon

  Updated: 12-30-07

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:6 Months

  Strengths: Very accurate. The voice commands are most helpful.

  Weaknesses: On rare occasions, it seems to lose satellite reception and the directions are off.

  Overall Evaluation: Overall, the Garmin Street Pilot C340 is a wonderful GPS system. I purchased one for my husband and another for one of my sons for Christmas. When my younger son returns from his mission, I will purchase one for him too!

• Reviewed by: pwbriggs23

  Updated: 12-27-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:10 Days

  Strengths: Easy to read screen, easy to work interface

  Weaknesses: Little slow, older maps

  Overall Evaluation: First GPS unit, accurate, loud, and easy readable and usable. Nice features, little slow recalculating but worked well, good amount of POI's, older model but great for older people (bought for my parents) and they are not tech savy and they used it well

• Reviewed by: shay1950

  Updated: 12-17-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Weeks

  Strengths: Easy to use

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall Evaluation: I just turned it on and it works great. I havn't opened the instructions yet. My son lives 2 hours away and the Street Pilot 340c showed me how to cut 20 minutes off the trip.

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  Updated: 12-11-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Weeks

  Strengths: Easy to use. Very accurate location info. Incredible amount of technology & information in a very small package.

  Weaknesses: When testing in familiar territory, a couple times the routes the unit recommended were unnecessarily long and circuitous. The unit is unable to "learn" shortcut routes. Timely updates not available.

  Overall Evaluation: Despite my negative comments, this is a great unit. If it could learn shortcuts (for use by other drivers), and if map downloads were updated to show new turnpike ramps, etc., it'd be excellent.

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