General

“True to your promise of early May delivery, my nuvi 350 shipped May 3, and arrived May 5. You guys are what internet shopping should be! I only wish others were as honest and prompt. Five days is not a long time to evaluate a unit like this, but I’ve put down some preliminary thoughts. If you want to use them, feel free.

“I’ve had my nuvi (why a name that is difficult to enter correctly on North American keyboards?) for only about 5 days, so this is a preliminary evaluation, but so far I am very impressed, with some caveats. I’ve used it around my home city, and on one longer round-trip of about 250 km. Total use has been about 800 km (I’m running it in metric mode).

“From the design point of view, I can only suggest two improvements. The first would be a simple mechanical volume control, such as a thumb-wheel on the side. I know, it only takes a click of the power button, a finger push on the screen, and a finger slide along the screen to make a volume adjustment adjustment, but that requires taking ones eyes off the road for a considerable number of seconds, while a mechanical control would require feel only....