This compact, portable color GPS+WAAS navigation system features built-in battery power, stereo MP3 music player, wireless full spectrum FM modulator, and a picture viewer. The iWAY™ 350C packs a lot of precise, easy-to-use turn-by-turn navigation with multimedia extras, and cordless anywhere portability, into a compact case at a great value!

User Reviews about Lowrance 112-61 iWay 350C Portable GPS Navigator and MP3 Player and Picture Viewer

I agree with the reviewer who said the iWay is not without faults but a good GPS for the price.

I've used the iWay 350C in my car for over a year now. I purchased it after briefly using the in-dash nav system in a loaner car while mine was being serviced. I've also recently compared the iWay with a cell-phone navigation option (TeleNav version 3.6 on a Motorola cell phone). Prior to these I used maps generated by Yahoo! or similar web services with directions printed out for my trips. There is no one perfect navigation system, in my estimation.

The iWay 350C is a good value for the price. For those drivers without .mp3 options in their vehicles, the music player is a nice feature. Unfortunately, the music function does seem to impact on the iWay's navigation, however.

My unit was returned once, just under a year of use, when the battery refused to hold a charge and the unit would not start up. On return, it functioned perfectly until a month later when the touch screen calibration began to fail. I'm preparing to return the unit to Lowrance again, hoping this can be corrected. Touch screen problems make the unit essentially useless since you need to select destinations, start music play, even acknowledge pop-up messages using the touch screen.

On a recent trip from Maryland to Pennsylvania, after our family "discovered" the .mp3 player function, the iWay was not able to generate a route (it claimed there was not sufficient memory) until after we drove part of the route; it again had difficulty with memory on the return trip. It seemed that stopping music player function improved the routing capacity. By comparison, the phone-based navigation generated the route both ways, but dropped its connection with the satellites numerous times, and was slow to prompt for turns (this version of the TeleNav service only provides voice prompt and turn icons, not maps).

Even with these upsetting problems, for the price and flexibility, the iWay 350C has served well as a navigation system for many other trips, and works well for finding directions in denser areas where I travel. I've looked at the Garmin, Magellan, and TomTom units and have not seen one that I thought offered the functionality for the money that the Lowrance does. Though I would prefer never to need to interact with product support I've found Lowrance's support to be very capable. -- Not My Perfect GPS but a Useful Value