Great Value Now For These Garmin Auto GPS Units
Garmin may not have the ubiquitous branding of TomTom here in Europe, but the company has actually been in the navigation business a couple of years longer. Its experience is obvious in the solid build and careful design of its products.
This is particularly true of the Garmin 765T, which is an update to the Garmin nuvi 760 we looked at earlier in the year. The Garmin 760 is currently selling at a 48% discount at Amazon.
For starters, the Garmin 765 marks Garmin’s leap onto the ‘lane guidance’ bandwagon. The corner graphic showing your next turning already illustrates quite clearly which lanes you should be in on a multi-lane carriageway. But Garmin has now also added a trendy realistic full-screen lane graphic to show more clearly where your car should be positioned on the road.
The 765 also allegedly sports 3D building graphics, using City Navigator’s Europe NT 2009 3D database. One final new feature is the ability to navigate to geotagged photos that have been imported into the device.
So the updates are not major, but then the Garmin 760T was already a feature-packed model. Included in the price are full European maps and these are the 2009 edition of City Navigator Europe NT from Navteq, so are the very latest currently available. As this is the T version, it also includes built-in traffic updates via TMC-RDS, with a lifetime subscription. With this, you can easily avoid them, with a small icon showing expected traffic delay on your current route.
However, the Garmin’s best feature of all is just how amazingly easy it is to use. Navman’s interface does the job but can be cluttered, whilst TomTom’s packs a lot in but isn’t the most aesthetic and its menu system can be extremely complicated. Garmin, on the other hand, has created a simple but effective view where roads and routes are clearly distinguished. Onscreen clutter is kept to a minimum, with messages popping up only when needed.
The Garmin 755T Specifications are like any other 700 series Garmin thin, compact and powerful. The Nuvi 755 sits on the GTM-20 mount with an easy mounting and dismounting action coupling the FM receiver in the Power cord to the Nuvi through the data feeds. The single slider switch on top allows you to turn the unit on and off as well as lock it while stowing it. The mount has a single cam lever action to mount it to the dash disc that is included or the windshield.
- Garmin 755T – features above, including North American Maps
- Garmin 765T – Adds Bluetooth Handsfree capabilities
The navigation on the Nuvi 755T lives up to the test of Boston and came through offering good directions while Lane Assist helped to show the way while on the highway to get to Logan Airport. The navigation by pictures is a fun little addition, and might be a nice way to plan out a trip to some cool landmarks. Solid navigation, supported by a new and better interface makes the new Nuvi 7×5 generation of navigators an appealing set of models to consider when getting into the higher end of GPS units. With so many advance features that are so user-friendly, the Nuvi 755T is a fresh addition to the Garmin line that is worth checking out.
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