flyfisher, here is a thread on Garmin 330 you will find the cost below $250 now adays.

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Originally posted by Chickadee:
One thing though....we had to name our Nuvi and since SHE really seems to get a kind of annoyed tone to her voice if you're off the "calculated route" and she has to "recalculate two or three times...hence...her name is BRUNNHILDA!!!... and BOY, she'll let ya know if you're off track!!! We like her though and rate the Nuvi pretty high! Steve & Lynette

Yea my wife named our 200 W ,
missey and p issey missey, but we like her too and I can even read it without my glasses.

Driver, sorry no body has helped you out but it sounds like you know more about the 200 W than I do.
I can transfer tracks, routes etc to and from my Garmin Legend handheld thru Mapsource but I don't know if you can do that with the Nuvi.

I have a Garmin Nuvi 5000 and also a Garmin Street Pilot 2610. I have the newest version of Mapsource (City Navagator North American 2008-version 9). I do my routing on either a laptop (on the road) or my desktop (at home) and then download the routes and waypoints to either the Nuvi 5000 or the Street Pilot 2610. The only time I had a routing problem was when I had several versions of the mapsource on the desktop and did routing on the 2610. After blowing away the earlier versions everything worked great. I would also like to add that the Garmin help desk is fantastic. I was having a problem with mapsource (City Navagator North American 2007) and they sent me the latest version in the mail ...free. They have been great when I had problems and have always been able to take care of me. If you have questions about what your unit will or will not do call the help desk.

(503) 391-3411 ext.3991
1-800-525-6726 ext.3991 (U.S.)
1-800-654-3415 ext.3991 (CAN)

Naming a piece of equipment is a mild indicator of fetishism (we call ours Matilda). It's too bad we can't change the voice to that of Steven Hawkings. It wouldn't be as irritating to hear "Recalculating" on a repititious basis.

The suction cup mount is the only complaint that I have with the Nuvi 350. When it is hot out and sun shining in, traveling on the wonderfully perfectly smooth roads that are everywhere in this country , I find that after a few good jolts, mine ALWAYS breaks loose from the suction and falls down. I clean the surface squeaky clean, and it doesn't matter. My solution was to simply apply heavy duty grade velcro to the suction cup itself. Now it stays in place, and I have a velcro strip in 3 vehicles so I can swap it wherever I want. Great device after fixing this problem.