Introducing the Nuvi 300: A versatile travel assistant that™s about the size of a deck of playing cards.The Nuvi 300 is a portable GPS navigator, traveler's reference, and digital entertainment system, all in one.

Combined with detailed maps, the Nuvi provides automatic routing, turn-by-turn voice directions, and finger-touch screen control - making it easy to find your way anywhere.

The Nuvi 300 features the very latest super-sensitive SiRF Star III chipset and high brightness TFT display. Australian City Navigator is supplied preloaded providing full auto-routing street coverage of Australia. Approximately 200 MB of additional internal memory is available for storage of suplimental maps, MP3's and audio books. Additional maps, MP3's, JPEGs and audio books can be loaded to a removeable SD memory card (available separately)

The Nuvi 300 comes complete with a vehicle suction-cup mount and 12-24 Volt cigarette lighter adaptor for immediate operation right out of the box. A USB interface cable allows connection to a PC for transferring favourite locations, MP3s, JPEG pictures and Custom POIs (see further details below).

Travel Kit

The Nuvi also offers a travel kit of useful travel tools to help keep any journey fun. There is an MP3 player, Audio Book player from Audible.com, JPEG picture viewer, World Travel Clock with time zones, Currency Converter, Measurement Converter and Calculator. In addition, optional software packages such as the Language Guide and Travel Guide (sold separately on SD Data cards) can be added for language and content support.

Language Guideâ„¢ software (optional)

Users can access an optional Garmin Language Guide, with data provided by Oxford University Press. This software suite contains a multilingual word bank, phrase bank, and five bilingual dictionaries. The multilingual word bank and phrase bank supports nine languages and dialects, including American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, European Spanish, and Latin American Spanish. The Language Guide lets travelers look up and translate more than 17,000 words or 20,000 phrases per language.

Travel Guide software (optional)

The new Garmin Travel Guide is loaded with information provided by Marco Polo. These guides put in-depth travel information about Europe - such as reviews and recommendations for restaurants, tourist attractions, and more - at the user™s fingertips. Travelers can use the Nuvi to navigate to an address or search points of interest (POIs) - places like hotels, restaurants, shopping, and tourist attractions. The Nuvi automatically calculates the fastest route and provides voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions along the way. If users stray off course, the nüvi automatically calculates the quickest way to get back on track.

The nuvi 300 supports Custom POIs (Points of Interest) which can provide alerts for speed and red light cameras and school zones. For details on this feature visit the Custom POI page.

• Receiver: high-sensitivity WAAS-capable GPS receiver by SiRF
• Display: 7.1 cm W x 5.3 cm H (8.9 cm diag.), 320 x 240 pixels; bright, TFT display, 64K colours, with white backlight and touch screen
• Unit dimensions: 98.3 mm W x 73.9 mm H x 22.1 mm D
• Weight: 144.6 grams
• Battery: built-in lithium ion battery provides 4-8 hours of battery life depending on use
• Preloaded WhereIsâ„¢ maps for all of Australia
• Fingertip touch-screen interface
• Look up addresses and points of interest
• Choose 2D or 3D map perspective
• Upload custom POIs, including alerts for speed zones and safety cameras
• Built in Travel Kit includes MP3 player with sample MPs, audio books, JPEG picture viewer, world clock, currency and measurement converters, calculator and more
• Add optional software such as Travel and Language Guides to personalize nüvi
• SD memory card expansion slot
• USB interface for loading data.