Garmin talk

I'm trying to decide which to keep. I have read a lot of info and talked to garmin a few times. But I'm hoping you guys can help me fill in the gaps.

I have a c330 and I'm trying to get it to alert me of Rest Areas on my route. I downloaded a rest area .csv file and a rest area .mp3 file. Example: Rest Area.mp3 and Rest Area.csv but when approaching a rest area, the mp3 does not play. I can get a proximity alert when using Manual mode in POI loader and setting a distance, but I can not get an mp3 alert. Does the c330 support mp3 playback?

Just recently purchased a c550 - and I've downloaded some of the POI bitmaps to my computer. I've fired up the Garmin POI loader, and when I select the folder with the icons it tells me there are no data files in that directory, that I need a CSV or GPX file.

I previously had nuvi 350. Then gave it to parents. Bought navigon 2100T. the traffic feature was nice and all, but i didn't find it useful. Ended up buying myself another nuvi 350. It's nice a compact unlike the 650. I don't look at screen enough to appreciate large size. The tts and routing features on nuvi are way better.

I just bought my Garmin C330 for $128 at Walmart (on Black Friday). From what I have been reading from this great site, the maps are outdated. I sent an email and within a day they told me I would be getting my updated maps in the mail within a month or so.

Does anyone know anything positive or negative about the Garmin 200 W? I want to take advantage of POI's and according to the literature the Garmin 200W has a slot for SD card. I want to buy it for my wife who gets lost going around the block sometimes. She laughs about it but I get concerned when she has to go to any unfamiliar places by herself.

Does anyone have an email address or link where I can report software issues to Garmin? Or would it just be the COntact Support page?

My 750 is still having the problem finding POI's near my destination. Instead it gives me POI's near one of the locations listed in my favorites.

Does Garmin make a permanently installed after market in dash GPS unit? Never seen or heard of one.

On my 660, if I click Where To, Food Lodging, Hospitals, every hospital is listed twice. If I click on each, they have the same city & phone number. At first I thought one could be for emergency room or something like that, other for main hospital. Don't think that's what's going on. I'm in the Los Angeles area, latest firmware & maps.

I got a few of them from a few digital cameras, still were in the wrapper. Turns out the nuvi 660 handles POI files very well from interchangable SD chips. I've experimented putting important data such as local red-light camera POI files directly in the nuvi ram and larger POI files I don't use often on a SD chip. You can have a lot of POI's on 16MB.

Waiting to get my nuvi350 today and have been reading specs and all the comments(very helpful and informative). There's one thing either I missed or haven't read yet. Does the 350 auto zoom map when it comes to a directional change. I have an older garmin gpsV and it dose the auto zoom, very helpful seeing up close what to do.

Got an email from a tech that said the running rumor at Garmin for the name "Nüvi" came from blending the words New and Navigation, then it became Newvigation, then Nuvigation and condensed to Nüvi. He wasn't sure what the double dots over the U were supposed to mean.

I can see, from all the posts I've read here and on other forums, that there are a lot of Garmin owners that have issues with what appear to be software features.

I've been wondering if anyone has some "inside" information as to whether Garmin might actually implement a software upgrade based on the large numbers of requests/complaints?

For those who didn't see my earlier post, I returned my 660 and bought a 680 from Costco online for $479.99, which was $220 less than the 660. I figured that it was worth giving MSN a test, since the 660's traffic didn't do much for me on our round trip from Dana Point, CA to Sedona, AZ in October.

It seems that if I want to import an updated .csv POI file, I have to upload ALL of them. I tried updating the latest red light/speed camera POIs from a separate folder. After uploading those two POIs, all my other ones were gone.

Seems I have to put each POI file in the same folder and import all of the every time I need to add an updated single POI file. Weird...

How do I convert a GPX file to a CSV file so I can incorporate the data into an existing CSV file? I use Excel... Thanks in advance!

(I posed this question in a Nuvi Yahoo forum, but a fellow user suggested that I might get better feedback here.)

Hi,
I haven't journeyed far since I got the Nuvi 660 (only yesterday!)

I often drive from Long Island to the Pennsylvania Poconos and back.
The route usually planned brings me across the George Washington
Bridge, which is the quickest route IF there is no construction,

I have a new garmin, and have uploaded some of the poi's

now how do i see the data fom these poi's on the gps unit?

thanks

Well a week or so ago I discovered I had a c330 with a different board and firmware. It had v4.40 loaded on it and according to ProductSupport this was the same as v5.70.

With the Black Friday deal, I picked up another c330 (which has v5.60 on it) and returned the v4.40 for a refund. They wouldn't do just a refund of difference.

do u just hear *ding*...*flashing red*?