I've bought a Garmin 370 for my trip to Europe. We won't be in a car so I need to be able to charge it with an AC adaptor. I have one for my IPod with a USB end on it. Will this work for the GPS also? The AC power adaptor they sell looks like it has a USB end on it but I can't find anything that tells me that--even at the Garmin website.
Thanks

I've wondered this same thing as well. I have the Garmin 200W that has a mini USB plug for power. I also have an HTC cell phone that charges w/ a mini USB wall plug. I'd love to use it on my GPS.

If I plug my GPS into the computer (like when I update software) the GPS will charge itself off of the computer. When I plug my phone into my computer using the same USB cord it will charge my phone as well. That tells me that both units were built to be able to be charged off the power that comes through a USB cable from a computer. My hypothesis is this...wouldn't the wall charger that came with my phone mimic the power from the computer through the USB...and then wouldn't it charge anything else that can be charged through a computer USB calble?

The one thing I've noticed is that my computer charges the phone rather slowly and the wall charger is quicker. So there is probably MORE power coming through the wall charger than through the USB from the computer. So that pretty much throws my previous theory out the window. Hopefully someone else knows this w/out a bunch of searching.

Connie, your 370, like the one we bought, should have included an AC charger. Might check w/ the place you bought it to send you the charger. Btw, Garmin.com does state the AC charger is included w/ the 370.

BTW...this is what you need if you have to buy one:
http://tinyurl.com/46x88u

or here for twice as much:
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=1344

Look at the info printed on your GPS car charger (the technical stuff) and see how it compares to what's written on your IPod AC adapter.

Thanks everyone.

Originally I was going to buy the 270 because it was cheaper and it did not come with an AC charger. Then, I realized the 370 was only $25 more and someone on the boards told me it pronounced street names instead just when to turn. I know it does eve more but that was what interested me.

Not having to buy the AC charger will make up part of the difference from the 270 to 370.

Wow, I just looked and the 370 comes with a lot of things I would have had to buy extra--AC charger, case, mounting stuff, etc.

The 370 was only $25ish higher than the 270 on Amazon.com.

We recently returned from Europe; Italy, Portugal, UK. Just carried one charger, the one for my cell phone; it has the USB connection. It charged our two cell phones, an iPod clone, and the Nuvi 370. No problems charging any of them. Anything with a USB connection that is able to charge from your computer will also charge from an AC adapter with a USB connection. The standard voltage output from USB is 5 volts.

We just returned and had a Nuvi 370 with us. I have mixed feelings about its usefulness as a pedestrian in Europe. Much of the time the directions were ok but it did take some time to initially orient. There were times however when it could not find the street entered (and it was entered correctly) but you wouldn't know that until after wandering about for awhile thinking that you are on track when in fact you are not. It was also just plain wrong at times. It also tended to lose the satelite connection on very narrow streets, and lord knows there are plenty of those. Also the "walk to the highlighted route" prompt is not too useful when you don't have a clue where that is.

If after this you still wish to use it, use the included earpiece because it is otherwise hard to hear in a noisy street.

Connie.

So glad you decided to upgrade to the 370.
The only problem is the understanding of those street names. I asked Garmin and they said you could use our 670 in both modes: speaking street names and with just the directions to turn without pronouncing the names.


This will come in handy if you cannot understand the spoken name like I think we will have trouble in Portugal as we cannot understand almost none of the spoken language when trying to match it to the written.

Have a great trip.

Johnmango. How extensively did you use it in Portugal and what do you think?

Take a look at my post from a couple days ago:

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...hard&fid=2

Maybe this link?

http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=35132403

Or maybe I could just say this:

The charger that you have for your iPod will also charge your Garmin Nuvi 370 - as long as you have the right USB cord.

The important thing is that the iPod charger has a 5V output and that's the same as the Garmin charger output. For Wekiva, your hypothesis is a fair one so long as the phone charger has 5V output.

sshephard

I just checked...and it does have 5V output. Nice! I was considering buying a Nuvi charger just this week and can now dump that idea.