First seen: 15 june 2005
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The c330's simple, easy-to-use... Read more
One of the favorite GPS manufacturers, Garmin, brings a new compact Street Pilot model to the portable automotive market. With Garmin’s Street Pilot systems users can typically expect a lot of features from this gadget. Preloaded maps are one of the biggest selling points of the Garmin Street Pilot c330. If you want to save a little cash and load maps yourself, you might want to consider the StreetPilot c320 instead. To load maps you use the included MapSource City... Read more
There are two other C-Series models in the StreetPilot line that you can compare and contrast. If you upgrade to the , you get the text to speech capability so it tells you the name of the street to turn onto, as well as the option to add on the Traffic capability. This would require that you buy the GTM 10 antenna to receive the traffic alerts. Learn more at our article on the GTM-10review of the StreetPilot C340 Read more
The GPS is very very useful but the main problem seems to be that it does not tell you to turn ahead of time r to get ready to turn so that you can be in the correct lane. We also faound some difficulties with it not finding a satelite signal. Read more
My company bought 3 Garmin C330 last year and I had to bring home a unit to be familiar with it. My wife fell in love with it and added it to her Christmas wish. I finally bought one for her. We bought a brand new van last year and we turned down the navigation package because of Garmin GPS. Why? Garmin C330 has been tested and a lot cheaper. Now my wife will be able to go to changing venues of my son's basketball game as well as my daughter's volleyball games with great... Read more
Comments about Garmin StreetPilot C330: [...] The unit itself is perfect, especially if you are looking for a simple navigation without all the bells and whistles. Worked great right out of the box. Installed the driver on my computer and off I went. It recalculates quickly - the only thing I noticed was when I was coming home yesterday, I decided to let it bring me the way it would perceive as the best route, even though I am very familiar with the city. It told me to... Read more
You can update your maps by buying the new ones for $70.00. However, the new maps do not fit on this device. You will have to copy one segment of the maps at a time, which would be pretty inconvenient. Read more
I traveled to Mississippi and I noticed that several street names were not on the Garmin 330. I tried to update the map on the computer and I could not, because I had to buy the map. Read more
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