Garmin nüvi 760 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Automobile Navigator
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Loaded and wide, nüvi 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 nüvi 700-series, its premium navigation capabilities, like route planning and a handy locator, give you peace of mind on the go. Save up to 10 routes, and specify via points and preview simulated turns on the 4.3 widescreen, or enter your via… Product details and pricing info |
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355 Customer Reviews Posted
- Balls mount loosens
- GPS is great. Some areas need improvement such as getting to various menu items. My worst concern is the ball mount on the back of the GPS unit itself. It is already starting to loosen up in less than a month of ownership and I do not see a fix for it except the need to keep purchasing new ball mounts which would add up quickly.
- 2008-10-18, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- pretty good unit
- Bought this on the recommendation of CReports. I dislike the learning curve with most electronics, but this was easy to program/set/use. Works slightly better than the units my neighbors own. My only complaint is that I was told that this unit has all the newest mapping, but the unit has twice gotten "lost" around roads completed in the last year.
- 2008-10-18, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Not what I expected
- Purchased this GPS from Amazon and I have had it for about 2 months,I purchased this GPS because if you have MapSource on your computer you can map out your trip and put in all the stops you want to make and load it into the unit.
I have been having problems with it stalling when it gets to loading maps, Have talked to garmin and right now not impressed with them they say I may have to return it for repairs and it sound like I would be paying to return it, so if you are considering a GPS and don't need the features this one has I suggest just a bassic one, I have the Garmin 350 also and that is a perfect unit. - 2008-10-17, 0 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Love my Garmin Nuvi 760
- I own an older Garmin and upgraded to the newer version. This new one has great features and is very easy to use. Compact and light weight for hand held travel use. Indespensible on our cross country car trip while driving and sight seeing on foot. The Attractions feature is great for finding things to do in the area. Would highly reccomend purchasing this GPS system.
- 2008-10-17, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Looks great on paper, not so much in the real world.
- This is my first GPS unit. I read a lot of reviews about many brands and models, and thought this would be the PERFECT unit....feature packed, and a well-known highly regarded brand. But unfortunately, it doesn't seem to do all that it does very well.
I made 3 trips today using the unit, only one of them being successful in my book...the first 2 trips took me on a circuitous journey through my suburban area, simple trips made much more complicated than they should have been. If I didn't know where I was going, I would have never noticed, not knowing any better. I changed the setting from "Faster Time" to "Shorter Distance" for my 3rd trip today, and it took me where I wanted to go and back again on my usual route. I used reverse-logic, since "Faster time" took me farther out of my way and made me late for a doctor's appointment.
On my first strangely-routed trip, I went to an office supply store to get an 8GB SD card (nice that it can take any size SD card with the newest software upgrade) so I could load it up with music and play it through my car stereo with the built-in FM transmitter. It sounds like I'm listening to really poor distant radio stations, not my clear digital music, even switching through all my station choices on my 10 mile trip to find a clear one. And if you drive for a few miles, you lose that signal, so you have to go to another station. Not a good idea while driving! You have to change the station on the GPS unit, and then on your car stereo each time. So that's a waste of time and money right there.
I also made a call using the Bluetooth option and the built-in speaker/microphone. I just had to hang up on the person I called because I couldn't hear him, and he said I sounded like I was in the car on the highway with all the windows down (they were up, volume was all the way up, and the stereo was off...I gave up on that earlier). I've read that if you get the optional microphone you sound better to the person you called, but I still won't be able to hear them, so there's another useless feature. I could put it through the FM-transmitter and over my car speakers so it would be louder, but I already know that that's not going to work. If I had an aux input on my car stereo, and added yet another wire to dangle off the unit, it would sound great, I'm told.
I will use it a bit longer and try the GPS-only features before I return it. I'm probably going to end up with a much less expensive unit that only does GPS, because right now I just have a very expensive trip-lengthening digital picture frame with a calculator in it.
I feel I have to add something positive....the screen is beautiful, looked good during the day and at night, and the touch-screen is a pleasure to use. The wide screen makes for very comfortable typing. If you don't know where you're going, you won't know you're going out of your way, so this may be the unit for you! Nice and thin, sturdy build, no protruding antenna...it looks fantastic. And obviously there are a lot of satisfied customers on here that love it. - 2008-10-15, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
