Reviewed by PB G4—October 9, 2007
I purchased this unit after a very disappointing experience with the TomTom 720, which couldn’t even locate my 1978-vintage house and suggested some odd routes (see my TomTom 720 review). The Garmin Nuvi 760 found my house, suggested eactly the routes I usually take on my test trips and does SO much more very, very well.
The interface in general is very easy - the go to interface has 6 million points of interest. It had every restaurant that came to mind for my look-up test. Some rather new. Wow.
The screen is very crisp and clear. The bluetooth was no problem to set up with my Blackberry 8703e (Sprint) and now all the points of interest are that much more useful with phone numbers / call options for each.
It has great setting features - like being able to go from an “ABC” key layout to QWERTY, or selecting from an “automobile”, “bicycle”, or “pedestrian” mode - very handy.
It also adds a great direct “where am I” feature that gives your position at the touch of a button and then lists all the emergency service links (police, fire, hospital) on the side (you can also see those through the POI list).
It had multi-segment trip ability AND simulated GPS run through of a route - so it takes you through a route as if you were driving it, when you’re really just at the kitchen table.
Okay, so great features that so far seem to be executed well, but I don’t want those to take away from what really impressed me about the unit the most: very accurate and great routing - which after all are the key GPS functions and ones which at least the other company I tried seemed to miss on.
Reviewed by VT—October 23, 2007
I have had the 760 for a few days now and I really have enjoyed it. I was negitively suprised to see that the carry case and a DVD of “City Navigator NT” was not included. But after calling Garmin both could be ordered for about $15 each.
I was positivly suprised though to get a coupon to Audible.com in the box for two free audio books. Taking advantage of that was about a $60 value for me. And the books work both on the Garmin and my iPod.
One annoying feature about the 760’s Route and POI function is the the big red flag used to pin waypoint locations. They completely cover the name of the waypoint rendering the name unreadable. this is in all map views (3D, Track-up, North-up) and zoom settings.
Not a deal breaker, but you would think someone at Garmin would have fleshed-out this problem and corrected it. Maybe in the next software update Garmin can produce a fix to print the waypoint names OVER those POI and Route flag pins.
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