Difference between Garmin 550 and 300 series? Can anyone give a detailed analysis?
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Just went through this debate myself. In the store, my husband noticed how different the screens were. The 500 series was much brighter than the 300 and sure enough, it states so on the garmin comparison page. Here's your link, hope it helps. http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/us/ontheroad/streetpilotcseries
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No. The 550 is not capable of Bluetooth communication. Check owners manual. https://buy.garmin.com/shop/store/manual.jsp?product=010-00700-01&ra;=true
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I've used it in a 260W but have no direct knowledge of a 355. You can send an E-mail to Garmin's support group and they are very helpful and prompt in responding
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No idea.... I don't have a 550! Sorry... I loaded topo maps from a free online website onto an SD card and put it in my 450.
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The only difference is the 36300 doesn't have an outside thermometer. And the weight difference would be the temperature probe and the wiring (although I just looked at the product pages and it seems like the listed weights are swapped (although the listed weights and measurements on Amazon are almost always wrong)). I got the 36500 and I'm pleased with it except for the fact that I think it should have an inside thermometer also (though I haven't seen any that do) and the fact that the map lights are incandescent rather than LED (and I just bought it last winter, that's very strange in this age of everything going LED), but they are easily changeable to LED (it's just a matter of finding a decent led replacement bulb (most of them are cheap china junk)).
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There shouldn't be any difference between the two. It is non-GPS non mapping unit so there shouldn't be a difference between the two. I hope this helps :)
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Really don't know but the Garmin nuvi 3597 LMTHD is awesome -- the best one I have ever owned
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The only difference is the addition of the Magic Motion remote with the 5500. All else should be identical.
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This really isn't a reply to your post but a question. I have been looking into getting a Garmin Nuvi 350. Does anyone know what the differences are with that one and the C550? I know there is a big difference in price and wondered if the Nuvi would be a good choice for basic GPS. I really want the voice with street names.
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I don't know about the 1300 model, but I emailed the Garmin customer service folks and they were pretty responsive. The one thing I wish they had mentioned early on is that in order to update maps, I needed a microcable that plugged directly into the GPS unit, and not the cradle. So you may want to verify that with Garmin.
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Thanks for the update, dsrussell. I'll take your advice and check out the review of the 765 that you mentioned at gpsmagazine.com. It's too bad that the folks at Garmin didn't include this info about the 765 in their owners manual. Must have been an oversight on their end. Again,thanks a bunch!
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As mentioned above, i did ask the Amazon representative about v.5 being mentioned in the technical details and got a response that the description needs to be updated. The 350 is presently being shipped with 2008 maps. Registering the product with garmin should provide a free 2009 map update. I am not sure whether Garmin would really provide this service for free or not, but for $200, i think the 350 with 2008 maps is a very good buy.
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AFAIK, Garmin uses the same routing algorithm as older units. However, I've heard complaints that the new ones can take you to routes that mystifies some users. I can't confirm this (my 765t pretty much routes me like my older 260 ... all things being equal, i.e., same settings). This is not to say my Garmin units' routing are spot on, they aren't always.
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There is not much of a difference between these two models. They both have 120 CMR and are both Smart TV's. The only major difference is the functionality in the Smart TV. The 5500 has 5 panels to scroll through and the 5300 has 3. Not a great selling point. You can still do the same things on both TV's. Its just that you have more spaces on screen to put more apps on the Smart TV function.The 5300 TV was released in 2012 and the 5500 was released in 2013. I hope this answers what you need.
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I don't know. I suggest you go to Garmin.com and pose the question with people who are more qualified to answer than I am.
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Check the internal memory on board. From what I'm reading, it seems the 540 has 2GB while the 550 only has 1GB. I just confirmed this here: http://www.the-portable-gps.com/tomtom-xxl-550.html The 550 has HALF the internal memory at 1GB. The 540 has 2GB. That is a substantial, not-talked-about difference.
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I wondered about that too .. although I'd trust Garmin's website and other 3rd party discussion sites ... the ?70 units are built to contain maps for both continents, and the ?80 are the first one's with MSN Direct.Perhaps there'll be a future ?90 (390/690) range that combines the two sets of new features? :)For now, I'm just wondering whether tot ake the plunge with the 660 and its FMt raffic/preloaded POIs, or wait for the MSN-direct 680 to be released (April?)!