Garmin nüvi 765/765T 4.3-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic & Lifetime Map Updates
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The Garmin 765T bundle includes lifetime map updates and features a 4.3-inch widescreen display, text-to-speech capabilities, media player, and FM transmitter for transmittingaudio–including directions and MP3 music and audiobooks–from the device to your car radio. Garmin nuvi 765T bundle comes with a lifetime map update card
Garmin’s nüvis pack top of the line features into a slim form factor.. Garmin’s HotFix satellite prediction (which locates your position quickly and precisely), Lane Assist (which provides lane guidance and junction views when possible), automatic time zone transitioning, and 3D Building views as well as Garmin Connect Photos to help you visually ascertain your position. Additionally, the nüvi 765T includes Bluetooth connectivity to your cell phone and free real-time traffic updates from Navteq (for the life of the device) via the included FM tra… More >>
Garmin nüvi 765/765T 4.3-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic & Lifetime Map Updates
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This unit has excellent graphics and the menu is very intuitive, but that’s where it ends. When you upload google maps routes, it only saves the destination; not the route you planned. When trying to set-up custom routes, this thing will route you around every country road in the USA to get to your destination. When you try the optimize feature for the route, not matter which optimize feature you select, it always says this is the best route and will not let you adjust it. If your going to the grocery store at the end of your street, then this is your machine. Otherwise, I would look somewhere else. Also, the disclamer on the lifetime maps is it’s good for the life of the machine or the current map provider; whichever happens first.
I have owned five Garmin GPS units prior to ordering the nüvi 765t. They’ve generally been excellent, and I have a great experience overall with the Garmin brand.
I ordered this as an upgrade to my aging StreetPilot c550. Bluetooth is a requirement for me, as my c550 is the core of my handsfree communication setup. The 765t is not cutting edge now, so the price has dropped significantly, and the inclusion of nüMaps lifetime upgrades in this bundle makes it a great value.
My initial impressions were positive. The build quality of the 765t is excellent, and it has a speedy CPU that offers smooth screen updates and fast, responsive operation. The included traffic receiver seems nice, although I don’t live in a coverage area, and the nüvi quickly picked up the satellites overhead.
Once I started using the 765t, however, the honeymoon was over. The touchscreen occasionally registered taps in areas far away from where I had tapped, even after I calibrated the screen.
More importantly, however, the speaker in the 765t is terrible. It is less than half as loud as the speaker in my older StreetPilot. After trying a handsfree call, I discovered that I couldn’t hear the other party even while I sat quietly in a parking lot. On a drive around the block, I couldn’t hear the spoken directions … even at maximum volume. This is absolutely unacceptable for a GPS featuring spoken directions and handsfree calling. Garmin really shot themselves in the foot by cutting corners with the speaker.
I’m sorry to say the nüvi has been boxed up for return, something I’ve never done with a Garmin. Stay far away from this model and look at other Garmins with dual and/or front-firing speakers.
I bought the 765T because of free lifetime traffic plus amazon has the free lifetime maps package too. Used it in San Francisco, works great, actually saw the ”3-D” building display in downtown, kinda cool ! Looking forward to future map updates for FREE, hopefully up to 4 times yearly.. that’s going to pay for this unit quite nicely .. Only slow feature is when you search for an exact business name, it takes a while to find the matching names, otherwise I’ll hopefully get several good years of service from this unit !
Got this one to replace my aging 370. On the whole I like the 765 (and the lifetime map updates!) though was hoping that 3 years and a higher end model would result in a far better GPS. It is more accurate, has better graphics and visibility even in strong daylight (unlike 370), faster and shows both turn lanes and traffic conditions, which I like.
On the con side, it took forever to update the map, the 765 is a lot more heavy than the 370 (no more keeping it in my purse) and the speaker is FAR worse. The voice sounds choppy and I had a hard time understanding what a caller was saying on an incoming call. The 370 voice quality was much better. I don’t know why a newer higher end model should have such poor sound.
The navigation options should have improved. I was hoping the 765 will have overcome the 370 tendency to select obscure highways rather than freeways, and/or allow the option of preferring freeways, but that seems to still be a problem. Having the 370 navigate me through high Sierra mountain roads during winter, rather than go through the freeways, is downright crazy, and potentially dangerous. I have not driven to Tahoe with the 765 yet, but I hope it will be better in that respect.
Inserting an address also hasn’t improved much (except for switching to QWERTY keyboard). The device should remember cities inserted and offer them earlier than new ones (e.g. if I used Santa Clara, I w
So on the whole a decent GPS and certainly does the job. Lifetime maps and traffic are great. But the poor quality of the speaker and lack of configurable navigational choices lowers the score heavily.
Knowing our area, it didn’t take us the best way (for traffic). We were looking for lane-specific items, but haven’t seen that.