Lowrance iWAY 350C Car GPS Receiver

Pros: Lightweight, Easy to setup and use, Nice screen
Cons: Software problems, Signal acquisition problems, Unit randomly powers down Maps are out of date

I bought the Lowrance iWAY 350C GPS Receiver to use on a trip to Florida with my wife. Not only did I want to have a GPS to guide us around, I also wanted to evaluate it for possible long term use. As I am a gadget ...

Pros: Small and easy to use. Fairly accurate navigation. Decent looking maps.
Cons: Strange shut down behavior, terrible suction cup mount, very poor software upgrade process.

I have owned the Lowerance iWay 350c since March of 2006. I have traveled with it a few thousand miles; through rural areas, mountainous areas and larger cities and have experienced both excellent performance and terrible performance. Initial ...

Pros: Immediate lock from "stand by", Exclnt Navigation, Customization, Mapscreen details, Sraightline options, features
Cons: Not Waterproof

I-WAY 350C in use for a couple of months. Has worked great. Initial Sat lock has been fine…No problems there. Units is very configurable. Many land feature details available for map screens. Maps are pre-loaded for North America. Show as many map ...

Pros: large screen, pleasant female voice, preferences can omit tollways
Cons: Synching satellites slow, installing update > 1 hour, address entry awkward

I have owned the iWay 350C for about 8 months now, having purchased it after moving to Princeton NJ. It works pretty well overall and I have become a fearless traveler with my trusty GPS. It has two power modes: full shutdown and standby. I prefer ...

Pros: Sound over stereo, MP3 player, the maps are great.
Cons: Processes very slowly, doesn't say road names, no traffic updates.

Maybe I've had bad luck with this model, but I've been disappointed with the iWay 350c. I received the unit as a gift. It was first purchased in May 2006 and I am on my 4th warranty replacement unit from the factory. (Each time calling tech support for ...

Pros: Many features that actually work, great display and sound.
Cons: No external antenna jack, but a re-radiating antenna works wonders.

The iWay 350c is better than I imagined... which is impressive since I'm kind of a gadget junkie. Even with its size it's still very easy to read. The voice is very clear and it's 'read' to me most of the streets I've been to so far. Tested it last ...

Pros: A truly portable GPS that you can use almost anywhere.
Cons: There are two places I have not found out how to find yet.

After spending weeks looking over different GPS receivers, I settled on the Lowrance iWay 350C. It had all the things I wanted for a reasonable price. I especially liked the idea that it had enough internal memory that I don't need to download maps to ...

Pros: Creates driving instructions fairly quickly. Map scrolling. Internal battery.
Cons: Poor touchscreen operation. Frequent and significant direction errors. Poor updates and manual. Poor on-line support.

I have positive experience with Lowrance marine products and purchased the iWay 350C expecting that same level of satisfaction. Not so. Two significant problems became immediately apparent. As I travel in rural areas and metropolitan areas I have ...

Pros: Easy touch-screen navigation
Cons: Battery didn't last more than 45 mins. Inaccurate readings. Maps are far too old.

I was looking for a small automotive GPS unit, and while I didn't really want one with an MP3 player, I thought that the iWay 350C sounded like a well-rounded package for a good price, and its music playing feature might come in handy on a long ...

Pros: Decent options for basic GPS device
Cons: Poor customer service, some unintuitive functions

I like the unit, as it delivers all that I need in this type of device. Again, for a base unit it offers decent bang for the buck. However, I am so disgusted with Lowrance's poor Customer Service, that I definitely will not buy another model from ...

Pros: Size, price, features
Cons: Not robust enough for automotive usage.

My frustration with Lowrance knows no bounds. After doing much research about the time that the iway350c was coming out I decided that it had all the features and size that I needed. So after waiting for the unit to come into stock I purchased one, and ...

Pros: Screen size, quality of display, mounting arm.
Cons: Inaccurate and unreliable, no short-cuts on text entry, awkward touch-screen

I bought the 350c because of it's high feature content and good price compared to competition. But I quickly determined it had too many bugs/issues and returned it. When working properly, I really liked it. However, in the week that I had it, it ...

Pros: Worked pretty good for the first two weeks!
Cons: Reliability is poor and online support from Lowrance is very poor!

See UPDATE BELOW this paragraphs, titled ****UPDATE*** (2/6/07): I purchased the IWay350C because the price and specs were exactly what I was looking for. The first two weeks it worked very well, but a little slow to lock on. The Maps are not ...

Pros: bright screen. excellent voice directions. intuitive use.
Cons: first unit returned after it wouldn't acquire satellite. Lowrance never paid my 50 dollar rebate.

I've owned an iWAY 350 for over a year and have driven throughout the U.S. with it... with no problem (after first unit was returned). Particularly like using it in the challenging to drive D.C. area where it always takes me where I want to go. I ...

Pros: great features, except for the satellite acquisition chip
Cons: inaccurate, too slow to acquire satellite signal (if ever)

The features and price of this GPS unit will have you thinking it is too good to be true. And for the most part, it is. There is no GPS unit in the market that offers this combination of features for this price; which is exactly why I bought one of those ...

Pros: Handy ,feature packed: FM transmitter,MP3,JPG nice screen, will read street names( only numbered route/highways streets)
Cons: No external antenna port, cant read all street names, poor signal reception. Route generation times.

I've had my 350c for a year and a half, and at first I didn't really like it. You must update to 1.4 (I think there is a 1.5 out now) After the update, I was pleased with the address input improvements and multi language text and voice. Its a nice little unit that offers many features that units costing hundreds more may not even offer. Screen is easy to read even in sunlight. Enough of the good, here's the bad. If the weather is poor it can take almost a half an hour to acquire a satellite lock. Even in good weather and optimal dashboard placement, erratic navigation and signal issues were a little more common than I would have liked. There is no provision for an external antenna. On several occasions when I really needed fast directions it took way too long to generate a route. I no longer have my 350, I left it on my dashboard in Aug. and the heat fried my batteries and the unit finally died completely last month. Oh well, I think I'll try a Garmin nuvi this time around

Pros: Good features. It has been acurate on most trips.
Cons: Complicated upgrade process. Unit periodically crashes.

I've had my unit for over a year. Having done 2 upgrades (which is an experience all in it's own), it still still occasionally crashes or shuts down for no reason. It has a lot of nice features, and is fairly accurate, but the database is badly out of date. An update CD is about $80. I'm looking to move on to TomTom I guess.

Pros: Price, Accurate POI, Up-to-date Maps
Cons: Time to aquire satellites, No Text-To-Speech

This product really sets the bar for low-price, mid-range in-car GPS systems.

The POIs are up-to-date for my area (Including a shopping center [with stores] built in the last year), the directions are accurate, and the maps themselves seem to be relatively up-to-date.

It does take a bit longer than expected to aquire a signal from the satellites. I remember an occasion when I was lost, sitting in my car, waiting for 3-5 minutes for the satellites to lock. Needless-to-say, it was a nerveracking couple of minutes.

All-in-all, if you are on a budget, and need a GPS, I would recommend this product to you. If you have a bit more money to spend, go with the 500c, or a Garmin or TomTom unit.

Pros: Small portable, multi functional, I am truly impressed with everything this unit does.
Cons: The maps aren't updated to 2006.

After much searching for a GPS, this little unit gives you alot of bang for your buck!! The size is what attracted me it is small and portable, plug and play. All of the United States, Canada & Puerto Rico are downloaded there is no additional downloading of maps, but I assume there will be up graded maps to download, just haven't gotten that far yet. This unit is not only a GPS, but an MP3 player, and a slide show viewer with your digital camera memory card. Its fairly east to use, although everyday I find out more about it. The only draw back I found with this unit is when it comes from the factory it is pre-set (under the options menu, interface set up) on a "stand-by" mode, when the unit is on this mode your plug and play is not recognized, so when you plug into your computer it does not recognize the hardware. If this is the unit you decide on just be sure to check this setting before you think you have a bum unit and return 3 different units, like I did!!!

Pros: It give highway names, when direct you to turn.
Cons: Map is too OLD, it using 2003 map. Wish able to update.

I got my IWAY 350c in Jan 2006, Plug and work well for me.
Mounting is not as good and easy as Tom Tom 300.
Try to go to Circuit City at Mountain View Ca, It lead me to a wrong shopping mall at Grand Rd. They moved two years ago.
Also it not as easy to find Point of interest, (compare to Tom tom300.

Pros: Clear and loud turn directions, Great display
Cons: Poor customer service. No map updates avaliable yet

UPDATE:

The first unit I purchased would lock up and reset itself time and time again. I took it back to Circuit City where I purchased it. They immediately replaced it with a new unit. Approx three weeks later, the replacement unit would not hold a charge for more than 5-10 minutes. After checking the power cord and all related items, I returned this unit to Circuit City. They advised me that this unit has been pulled from their shelves and they no longer carry it.

They gave me a complete refund of all the money I had paid. I then discussed my problem with the Salesperson, He strongly suggested the Garmin Street Pilot c330. I purchased that and I am so happy with this unit. If I would have known how great the Garmin was before I had bought the iWay, I would never had wasted my time.

A lesson I learned. Stick with a company that has an excellent reputation, and a GPS is a GPS. Not a picture viewer and an MP3 player

Pros: great
Cons: great, clear, and more

yes i will say in spanish this is the greatest invention to humankind.
the 350 gps lowrance work great a little slow to udated the informacion

Pros: cost, GUI (I like it), good whenever it is working.
Cons: - Catching the signal on power up, losing signal pretty easily. - Reliability.

It takes ages to catch signal at many places. It loses signal when you need it the most.

Whenever it recovers itself after losing a signal it gives such arbitrary directions.

Recently during a trip, it was a bad (embarrassing one at that) experience when driving from Washington DC area to Virginia, it just did not direct properly.

Often, I find that it has an error margin of about 100ft.

Pros: Price. Features.
Cons: No predictive text input

This is a very nice and full featured GPS unit. I have had no problems with the 350. I especially like that it has a built in MP3 player with FM modulator.