Garmin C330

Garmin C330

By Anne Ahira

The Garmin C330, also referred to, as the Street Pilot C330 is one of the easiest GPS units ever designed. It is now discontinued but the people that already own the unit pretty much refuse to give them up for any reason.

The Garmin C330 came to the owners ready to roll and you could open up the box and be enjoying the benefits of navigational assistance without spending countless hours reading a manual and learning the fine points of what it was doing and why it was doing it and how to make it do something. Just power up, touch the screen a few places and go.

The Garmin C330 came preloaded with street makes and a pretty sizeable set of Points of Interest  called POIs in GPS lingo. You simply touch the easy to see screen and enter in an address or something you are looking for, like maybe an ATM or place to eat and boom, up comes the map and the little wonder guides you to the place you are after with very little fuss and muss.

The Garmin C330 allows you to program in your own POI items so that you can know where things that you normally go to are located no matter where you are coming from and no matter what it actually is that you are going to. And should you either out grow the POI memory or decide to leave the good old United States of America, you can pop in a small SD card and add optional maps for any place in the world that you might be going for business or vacation so you can be assured that you will get where you are going safe and sound no matter where in the world that might be.

Street price for the Garmin C330 when sold new averaged in the $105 range and it was a bargain at that price. While it didn’t have all the bells and whistles that we have come to expect from a GPS unit these days. Its big plus is that it was small, simple to use and accurate.

The Garmin C330 has been compared to the TomTom Go because of similarity in design and features but there are a few distinct differences. For one the Garmin has interchangeable faceplates, which are not found on the TomTom and for another the Garmin has a rechargeable battery back up so you can actually use it outside of the car and away from external power.

This nifty little GPS was and is a great unit and would make a nice easy to use model for travel or a second car because you just set it and forget it and let it so its job while you concentrate on driving.
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