Garmin nüvi 760 Portable GPS Automobile Navigator

Garmin nüvi GPS : Garmin nüvi 760 Portable GPS Automobile Navigator

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Loaded and wide, n?vi 760 has it all - advanced navigation features, a widescreen display, preloaded maps, an FM transmitter, hands-free calling, traffic alerts and more. Like the rest of the wide n?vi 700-series, its premium navigation capabilities, like route planning and a handy locator, give you peace of mind on the go. With n?vi 760's widescreen display, you'll always get the big picture. View map detail, driving directions, photos and more in bright, brilliant color. Its sunlight-readable, 4.3-inch display is easy to read - from any direction.n?vi 760 comes ready to go right out of the box with preloaded City Navigator NT street maps and millions of points of interest (POIs) such as hotels, restaurants, fuel stations, ATMs and more. Simply touch the color screen to enter a destination, and n?vi takes you there with 2D or 3D maps and turn-by-turn voice directions. It even announces the name of exits and streets so you never have to take your eyes off the road. In addition, n?vi 760 accepts custom points of interest, such as school zones and safety cameras and lets you set proximity alerts to warn you of upcoming POIs. The European version even includes a preloaded safety camera database containing locations of cameras for parts of Europe.

Garmin nüvi GPS :Customer Reviews

Great Garmin!!!
I purchased the Garmin 760 for myself, after buying one for my son for Christmas. It has every featurer I wanted plus some that I don't use. I have used it on trips and my only complaint is that the fastest route feature does not an option for staying on Interstate highways. However when I turn onto an Interstate it quickly recalculates. I would recommend this product over the less expensive ones. 'You get what you pay for'.

User Friendly
Very user friendly, and very good display.
The update down load took forever, about 5 hours, I think it would be faster and easier to pay $10.00 for the cd, hopeing it would be faster and easier.

Garmin 760 Nuvi - good product, not perfect
Have been using this unit for about a month or so.

Pros:
1. Easy to use right away. A very intuitive product.
2. Suction cup mount is perfect as is - do not believe reviews that say otherwise.
3. Bluetooth connectivity setup was easy and works well. I don't think my phone was listed as one supported by this unit.
4. Spoken street names and turn indications helpful.
5. Price on Amazon when I purchased ($440) was very competitive.
6. Is quick to realize when you deviate from a route and doesn't pester you to turn around. It simply says "recalculating" and then shows you a revised route based on where you are now driving.
7. Interface for entering addresses works well.
8. You can load a route you create online with Mapquest. Sometimes the map comes over exactly the way you wanted, other times not so good.
9. You can add user created POI's to the unit. Search around on the web for POI libraries; they are there and it is not that difficult to add them to your unit.

Cons:
1. No icons for points of interest (POI). The only time you can find them on this unit is when you switch to the 2 dimension mode and zoom way in. Don't get me wrong, the points of interest (about 6 million - as many as any other unit on the market based on what I've read) are in there, just not with icons.
2. Maps have plenty of inaccuracies although this is not Garmin's fault as they get their info from one of the two map providers
3. No owner's manual in the box. Not a problem, you just have to download it from their site (66 pages).
4. In city driving, it's estimation of how long it will take to reach your destination is consistently short by about 5 minutes. So, if it tells me I am going to arrive at 10am, I know that most likely it will be 10:05am. In contrast, when there is highway driving involved in the trip, the unit is almost always right on within a minute or so. The trips I am talking about are 45 minutes or less.


I would buy this again.