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Garmin nuvi 310 with TMC Traffic Module (Deluxe Europe) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
Buy New: £159.99
New (4) from £159.99
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 41282
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 6.3 x 6.3
MPN: nuiv310D
Model: nuiv310D
UPC: 753759061227
EAN: 0753759061227
ASIN: B000ME1E68
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 3.5" touch screen display | | • | UK street level mapping | | • | Full Postcode search | | • | Screen Type: 16:9 | | • | Screen Size: 3.5" |
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Product Description
Translator. Entertainer. Tour Guide. Garmins nuviTM 310 Deluxe is one versatile, and well-equipped, little GPS. This pocket-sized Personal Travel Assistant now comes with UK and Ireland Maps pre-installed, plus European mapping on CD and a Garmin GTM 12 TMC Traffic Module with a life-time subscription to Traffic Master making it the go-anywhere travel companion. Place hands-free calls with Bluetooth wireless technology The nuvi 310 Deluxe integrates wireless technology with a microphone and speaker that lets you make hands-free mobile phone calls. Simply dial numbers with the nuvi's touch screen keypad to make a call on a compatible Bluetooth phone. To answer calls, just tap nuvi'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 phones call history log. Dont know the phone number for your destination? Simply find and dial it from nuvi's extensive points of interest database including hotels, restaurants, stores, and attractions.Navigate with EaseThe nuvi 310 Deluxe comes pre-programmed with UK & Ireland map data, and includes automatic routing, 2D or 3D map perspective, and a fingertip touch screen interface making navigation easy. Travelling abroad? The nuvi 310 Deluxe is supplied with Garmins City Navigator NT Europe on CD, simply install the country map on to a SD card (not supplied) and youre ready to go! The nuvi also accepts customized points of interest (POIs) such as school zones a safety cameras. In addition, with the supplied Garmin GTM 12 FM TMC traffic receiver, you can avoid traffic tie-ups by simply pushing a button to calculate a new route.Enjoy Travel Kit full of entertainment and useful toolsNavigation is just the beginning. nuvi includes many must have entertainment and travel tools including MP3 player, audio book player, JPEG picture viewer, travel alarm, curr
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 Smallest load of rubbish ever July 24, 2008
John Barker (Nottingham)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Purchased a 310t November 2006,after trying both a Garmin & a Tom Tom previously. Used it on 3 occasions, twice to London & once touring Germany in December 2007. That trip was the death knell for the machine as it siezed up and died next tine we came to use it Jan 2008. Contacted Garmin UK customer service (The name customer & service do not seem to sit well together with Garmin)to be told it would cost OVER ONE HUNDRED POUNDS to look at a 15 month old machine.This sat nav is about as good as the football team they sponser, very average trying to be better than they are.The machine worked well when abroad except it did not reconise Belgium ??
Disapointed with Garmin Nuvi 310D July 11, 2008
Dennis M (Bucks, United Kingdom)
I bought a Garmin Nuvi 310D 18 months ago. It worked fine until a couple of weeks ago when it lost its satellite signal. After several phone calls to Garmin and 2 letters the only solution is a repair/replacement at a cost of 101.00. Bearing in mind I paid 260 in the first place this seems OTT for only 18 months of limited use!
 Looks good - but that's pretty much it May 22, 2008
Mr. W. Forde ((UK))
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the Nuvi about a year ago having had TomTom on a Palm Pilot. I was attracted by the all-in-one aspect of the Nuvi and also the design. I found it frustrating to use for a few reasons:
1.) The turn instructions come far too soon - sometimes when there is another turning between you and the one it really wants you to take. This means that I have to look at the unit to double check which turn to take. I never had to do that with the TomTom. The acid test was the Peripherique around Paris - got round it seamlessly with the TomTom, but took wrong turnings all over the place with the Nuvi.
2.) There are POIs built in for shops and so on, but I can't see a way of updating them.
3.) The mapsource desktop software is in dire need of an update - it seems to be a generic tool for all of their GPS units. It is really hard to work out what to do. I updated the Nuvi for maps of Northern France an as soon as we were 20km into France it switched to a really low granularity of roads - only showing the major ones. It was an attempt to fix this last night using MapSource that made me..
... come to Amazon to buy a new TomTom.
P.S. TMC is terrible too.
This is the worst Sat Nav I have ever experienced February 22, 2008
J. Ryan (UK)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Glad to see that other reviewers are happy with this device, but I can honestly say that my experience of this device is a far cry from a happy one.
Let me put this is perspective, my previous satnav was on a PDA using pretty much the first version of TomTom. Whilst it took it's time to fire up and connect, once it did it rarely took me the wrong way, and then it was more amusing than anything else (ie being berated by a motherly voice telling you to turn around etc). Despite the age the mapping software was far better than most my colleagues' satnavs, the re-direction was spot-on and the information available ( time/distance to destination etc) beneficial.
I travel this fair land quite a bit for business, so I am relatively knowledgable on routes etc and bought this to compliment this knowledge. What a palava, it sends me north towards Manchester when I need to go south to Essex (even humoured out of curiousity to see if it had some magical route), not recognised a long established business park, or any roads nearby it - costing me 5 1/2 hours in wasted travel and an appointment,... thereby in petrol, mileage and not getting a deal this cost me a fortune. These are just some of the regular problems I have with it - even on routes I know 100% it decides that it wants to add more miles and time to my journey - if I was an Eco Warrior I would question the envionmental friendliness of this device. I have wasted more money on petrol than the cost of this darn thing,.. it is a scourge. Perhaps I have been really unfortunate,... but enough is enough - back to TomTom I go.
 Brilliant Sat Nav, Rubbish TMC Module September 3, 2007
Mr. D. A. Keavey (Manchester)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I bought my Nuvi 310 deluxe about 8 weeks ago and have found it superbly intuitive to use. I drive all over the UK, and its mapping is excellent. I spent the last week in North Cornwall and was massively impressed at the Nuvi's spot-on accuracy, right up to the tiniest coastal track. That said, I've already found 3 (newly built) roundabouts that its mapping doesn't recognise, but unlike the Tom Tom, the Nuvi doesn't throw a wobbly and spend the next 10 minutes recalculating, it manages it in a seconds. The POI facility, coupled with bluetooth is a brilliant idea, and unbelievably, it works. I expected it to be a uselessly small database of things/places I'd never need nor be interested in. NOT SO! You can find just about anything wherever you are, (Chemists, petrol, post office, parking, ATM's, Food, Shops -the list really is endless- and then with one tap, you can call them up via bluetooth. (I've read a review which criticises the bluetooth; There is an update available to download which improves it and the voice quality too.) The scary thing is that its up to date, exhaustive, and so is actually useful. The add-on travel stuff is a great too, Translator, Currency convertor etc, and I can't wait to test it full-on in europe.
If I had to make a criticism, its that the instruction book is not very helpful. Because you can't find too many answers there, it forces you to play around with your Nuvi and so discover how to do stuff for yourself. Which is probably a better way to learn anyway.
WARNING: Don't buy the TMC traffic module with it. Its useless. Worse than that its useless AND annoying. The software works perfectly well, but this is a fine example of rubbish in : rubbish out. The 'Instant' updates are woefully late and so you find yourself either in a jam it hasn't yet heard of, or not in a jam its warning you to avoid. The idea of TMC is a good one, the execution, to date at least, is woeful.
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