GPS: Garmin Nüvi 310

Garmin Nüvi 310:

Navigator. Translator. Entertainer. Tour Guide. Garmin’s nüvi® 310 is one versatile little GPS. Sold exclusively in Europe, this pocket-sized Personal Travel Assistant now comes with hands-free Bluetooth® wireless technology in addition to the popular features offered in the nüvi 300 — making it the go-anywhere travel companion.
Place hands-free calls with Bluetooth wireless technology:
The nüvi 310 along with its counterpart the nüvi 360 integrate wireless technology with a microphone and speaker that lets you make hands-free mobile phone calls. Simply dial numbers with the nüvi's touch screen keypad to make a call on a compatible Bluetooth phone. To answer calls, just tap nüvi's screen and speak directly into its built in microphone.
In addition, easily look-up and dial numbers from your personalized phone book or from your phone’s call history log. Don’t know the phone number for your destination? Simply find and dial it from nüvi's extensive points of interest database — including hotels, restaurants, stores, and attractions.
Navigate with Ease:
The nüvi 310 comes preprogrammed with regional European map data, and includes automatic routing, 2D or 3D map perspective, and a fingertip touch screen interface — making navigation easy. It also supports configurable vehicle icons — fun, customized car-shaped icons in a variety of colors that show your position on the map.
The nüvi accepts customized points of interest (POIs), such as school zones and safety cameras, using POI Loader. It even provides traffic alerts (in select cities) when used with a compatible traffic receiver. By adding traffic services and a receiver to your nüvi 310, you can avoid traffic tie-ups by simply pushing a button to calculate a new route.
Enjoy Travel Kit full of entertainment and useful tools:
Navigation is just the beginning. The nüvi includes many “must have” entertainment and travel tools including MP3 player, audio book player, JPEG picture viewer, world travel clock with time zones, currency converters and more. In addition, optional software packages such as the Language Guide™ and Travel Guides™ can be added for language and content support.

Customize with Optional Software:

Optional software available on plug-in SD cards, lets you instantly add new features to your nüvi — without connecting to your computer.
• Language Guide — contains five bilingual dictionaries and a multilingual word bank and phrase bank that support nine languages and dialects. Even get a spoken pronunciation of each word or phrase

• Travel Guide — gives you helpful and thorough reviews and recommendations for restaurants, hotels, shopping, nightlife, sporting events and tourist attractions. Travel Guide for the United States and Europe are currently available for purchase.

• Savers Guide™ — a “geo-coded” coupon book that notifies you of nearby discounts on restaurants, hotels, shopping, and more at thousands of participating Entertainment® businesses throughout North America

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Nüvi 310 Features:
• Receiver: high-sensitivity WAAS-capable GPS receiver by SiRF
• Display: 2.8” W x 2.1” H (3.5” diag.), 320 x 240 pixels; bright, TFT display, 64K colors, with white backlight and touch screen
• Unit dimensions: 3.87" W x 2.91" H x 0.87" D (98.3 mm x 73.9 mm x 22.1 mm)
• Weight: 5.1 ounces (144.6 grams)
• Battery: Rechargeable lithium-ion battery delivering 4-8 hours of battery life depending on use
• Bluetooth wireless technology for hands-free calling
• Includes Garmin Lock™, an anti-theft feature
• Supports FM TMC traffic alerting
• Preloaded maps for one European region
• Fingertip touch-screen interface
• Look up addresses and points of interest
• Choose 2D or 3D map perspective
• Upload custom POIs, including alerts for speed zones and safety cams with POI Loader
• Built in Travel Kit includes MP3 player with sample MPs, audio books, picture viewer, world clock, currency and measurement converters, calculator and more
• SD memory card expansion slot
• USB interface for loading data