Garmin Nuvi 360 Portable Navigator $615 at Rakuten.com Shopping

The GN 360 is a great GPS system. My friend has one... but you can go much cheaper and not sacrifice functionality. Woot.com has great deals on GPS systems occasionally.

Get the 660 is has "more" features

Pricey, but nifty gadget. One of the better prices that I've seen for a Nuvi.

Expensive, but good unit. SiRF Star III

Expensive. I got me a bluetooth setup w/ TomTom and a Palm TX and a 2GB SD card. Does the same thing as the GN360...only more! Paid around $500 for my setup.

Too expensive for my taste

I got this unit... It's great. The bluetooth is a nice feature. You can dial a POI with one button. Great for finding hours or reservation that a resturant might have. To me worth the extra $ over the 350, but that's my opinion. The 660 has a couple of more features, but because it's wide screen it's not really "pocket-able" anymore. Price is pretty good. Just my 2 cents.

eh. its ok. haha

Garmin > TomTom

This one is a little pricey, but I love my Garmin C340

I need to remind anyone thinking of buying a GPS unit... only girly men use GPS units. Real men use paper maps and the position of the sun/stars to navigate. Save the money for gas and get driving.

This puppy has it all! Blue tooth, maps that you can use on the fly, on foot or on bike. But the prices of these things drop down alot when the next iteration comes out from Garmin. 6 months from now it will 200 dollars less..

walmart.com had it for $540 about a week ago.. wait a bit and the price should drop again..

Are the $250 priced units acceptable?

Amazon has it for $589.99, no tax.

The price on this one has been dropping steadily over the last couple of months (I know... I bought it at $599 last week when it went down from $634 the week before... it's now $599 at Amazon and cheaper at Buydig). TomTom is having a special fromo November 22nd or so to early December for an extra $50 off all their GPS solutions, so it might be a good idea to hold off just a bit as Garmin, ever-worried about losing dominance in the US to TomTom (who dominates the Europe market), is liable to drop prices a bit to match.

I, on the other hand, couldn't wait because I'm an impatient bastard.

What is the best Garmin unit.

Is the only difference between the 350 and the 360 Bluetooth? The 660 from what I have seen is significantly more expensive than the 350/360 model, which would seem to render a comparison between them somewhat moot.

Here's a helpful hint if you're considering a GPS. Go to the manufacturer's website and look for a place to make sample routes using their software. That will tell you if their software can find the types of addresses which you're most likely to enter.

I really like Garmin, but I have friends who like the other navigators better, simply because they tend to enter more rural routes, or live in a different part of the country where one of the other vendors' maps are better.

#16, with GPS, you get what you pay for. The best units are the most expensive. I used a friend's Garmin 2960 and loved it. There are later models that are even better. However, those units were a bit pricey for me. I ended up with a low-end baseball-sized model. It works just as well, because in the end I didn't need the "best," just needed a convenient tool to provide directions.

If I had the money, I'd spring for an in-car unit made by Toyota.

Or get a unit which subscribes to satellite radio and can reroute you around traffic.

wolf...my c340 has found every rural spot Ive put into it. straight to the door. And "Emily" who is the voice on the driving commands gives you a heads up based on your speed how far out you need to make the next turn. My wife loves it. the garmin took us straight to a remote house in the Poconos, a little townhouse in downtown Baltimore, zoos and parking, ESPN zone (that was for the guy who said you dont need a GPS and every where else we want to go. It also has the traffic capability and a detour capability (which ive used several times because of DC/Baltimore traffic)