Garmin C340
C340 Garmin
The Famous Garmin C340 StreetPilot
GPS Navigation systems are becoming a popular necessity for people who like to travel places here lately. The less time you spend driving the less gas you burn. The Garmin StreetPilot c340 leads the portable, affordable c300 series with text to speech capability and optional traffic alerts. It’s intuitive touch screen operation and big displays make it easy to use.
StreetPilot c340 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps, including a great amount of, points of interest (POIs), including motels, restaurants, fuel, ATMs and more. Simply touch the sunlight-readable color screen to enter a destination, and the c340 takes you there with 2D or 3D maps and turn-by-turn voice directions. It even announces the name of exits and streets so you never have to take your eyes off the road.
In addition, the c340 accepts custom points of interest (POIs) such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs. Traveling abroad? Avoid traffic jams with the addition of an FM TMC traffic receiver and traffic services. Simply touch the screen to view traffic details or recalculate your route to avoid traffic.
The portable c340 easily moves from vehicle to vehicle. Its suction cup windshield mount is a snap to install. The c340 also comes with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery for out-of-car route planning. The StreetPilot c340 is small enough to put in your pocket and is very affordable compared to larger GPS units with basically the same capabilities.
Although the garmin streetpilot c340 GPS was actually released a few years back, it is still EXTREMELY popular even today. Literally thousands of people still do a search for the garmin c340 every month on Google, Yahoo, and even bing.com (MSN). Pretty impressive for a GPS system that was discontinued well over a year ago. But considering how popular this GPS is, and how much value it offers for the price, this is no surprise.
So how can you still get your hands on a garmin streetpilot c340 GPS? Well, you can buy them used, or even as refurbished. Luckily garmin refurbished a LOT of these GPS’s, due to their popularity and market demand. And the good news is that the refurbished c340’s are literally like brand new, and come with all of the originally accessories, and even the original box as well. Well, for starters, you can save at least $100 or more compared to buying a brand new GPS, and second of all, there is a reason why the garmin streetpilots (including the garmin streetpilot c330) are such a popular GPS. While the main reason is the price, some of the other reasons are because it has voice prompts, automatic error correction, and it even tells you the name of the streets.
The error correction feature means that the GPS will automatically calculate a new course if you happen to miss your turn(s). There are many other great features of the garmin streetpilot c340 car gps; far to many to mention in fact. You can still find plenty of accessories for this GPS, and download updated maps to it as well.